Andrews Kurth’s Corporate Practice Continues its Growth With Addition of Greg Rayford

HOUSTON - Andrews Kurth is pleased to announce that Greg W. Rayford has joined the firm's Houston office as a Partner and will practice in the Corporate/Securities group.

Rayford was most recently Corporate Counsel for Science Applications International Corporation, serving as lead counsel on domestic mergers and acquisitions and divestitures.

"I am pleased to welcome Greg to the firm," says Bob Jewell, Andrews Kurth Managing Partner. "His experience is a perfect match for our firm's national Corporate/Securities practice and will serve our clients well."

Before his recent in-house role, Rayford spent eight years at Kirkland & Ellis where his deal experience included various strategic and leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, divestitures, venture capital and minority investments, strategic alliances, public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, restructurings, senior and subordinated debt financings, private equity fund formations, and executive incentive arrangements.

"I'm very pleased to be joining Andrews Kurth," says Rayford. "I look forward to working with the lawyers in the corporate practice who have a market-leading presence."

Rayford earned his J.D., magna cum laude, in 1998 from the University of Wisconsin Law School. He earned a B.A. in business administration from the University of Wisconsin in 1989.

For more than a century, Andrews Kurth LLP has built its practice on the belief that "straight talk is good business." Real answers, clear vision and mutual respect define the firm's relationships with clients, colleagues, communities and employees. With more than 400 lawyers and offices in Austin, Beijing, Dallas, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, The Woodlands and Washington, DC, Andrews Kurth represents a wide array of clients in all areas of business law. For more information about Andrews Kurth, please visit andrewskurth.com.

Associated Practices
Corporate/Securities