W. David Johnson

David Johnson has advised clients in the United States and around the world on business transactions and financing for more than 30 years. His work includes domestic and multinational mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations, domestic and international joint ventures and strategic alliances, and all types of transactions for rapidly growing business entities. David has extensive experience advising closely held and family-owned businesses regarding succession planning as well as the transactions and business restructuring which results from such planning.

He has advised on numerous middle-market transactions, including hospital joint ventures, mergers of large companies that involved antitrust issues and the establishment of LLC joint ventures, negotiating and documenting credit agreements, and the closure of large loan facilities. David has advised on financing deals involving a full range of funding and financing vehicles, including equity/debt venture capital financing (public and private), mortgage and asset backed securities, multi-party lending and participation, GO and conduit bond financing and letters of credit, oil and gas related acquisitions/financings, and production-payment based financing. He also advises public companies on SEC regulation and reporting and public/private legal due diligence.