William J. Cooper
Partner
bcooper@andrewskurth.com

1350 I Street, NW
Suite 1100
Washington D.C. 20005
P: 202.662.3044
F: 202.662.2739

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Bill’s practice includes public and private merger, acquisition and disposition transactions, and all types of capital markets transactions representing both issuers and underwriters, including initial public offerings, follow-on public equity, debt and convertible security offerings, 144A offerings and other types of private placements. Bill has particular experience with publicly traded partnerships, including formation, sponsor “drop down" transactions, general partner disposition transactions and conflicts committee representation.

Representative Experience

Significant recent transactions on which Bill has worked include:

• representation of issuer client in connection with formation and $300+ million initial public offering of an NYSE-listed issuer (January 2008);
• representation of the conflict committee of a publicly-traded partnership in connection with the $734 million acquisition by public merger of the corporate owner of its general partner (February 2008);
• representation of the conflicts committee of a publicly-traded partnership in connection with $107 million "drop down" acquisition by the partnership from its sponsor (pending);
• representation of underwriters in connection with the formation and $140+ million initial public offering of an NYSE-listed issuer engaged in Jones Act shipping business (November 2007);  
•  representation of the sponsor of a publicly-traded partnership in connection with a $1.2 billion "drop down" transaction and representation of the publicly-traded partnership in connection with the related public and private equity and 144A debt financing transactions (December 2006);
• representation of issuers, investors and placement agents in connection with PIPE transactions;
• representation of issuers and underwriters in numerous primary and secondary follow-on public equity and debt offerings;
• representation of public and private acquirors in multiple private acquisition and disposition transactions.

Bill worked on the editorial staff at Vanity Fair Magazine before attending law school at Emory University.

Professional / Civic Affiliations

Listed - Texas Rising Star, Texas Monthly magazine (2005 & 2006)

Practice Areas

• Corporate/Securities

Education

• JD, 1995, Emory University
• BA, 1987, cum laude, Princeton University

Admitted

• District of Columbia 2007
• Texas 1996
• New York 1995