Karim Shehadeh is an associate in the Corporate/Securities section in the Houston office of Haynes and Boone, LLP, and primarily practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and securities. His experience includes negotiating mergers and acquisitions of privately held and publicly held companies; representing issuers in offerings of equity, debt and convertible securities, and U.S. securities compliance matters; structuring and forming business entities, including corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies; representing clients in private placements of securities and venture capital financings; and other corporate and securities matters. Karim also represents companies engaged in the maritime industry in various corporate and securities matters and certain industry-related regulatory matters.

Prior to joining Haynes and Boone, LLP, he was an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Blank Rome LLP, where he primarily focused on commercial and U.S. government guaranteed financing transactions for clients engaged in the maritime industry, and mergers and acquisitions and general corporate and securities matters for clients engaged in various other industries. 

Selected Client Representations

• Software companies and shareholder groups in recapitalizations and sales of controlling interests to venture capital and private equity funds
  
  
• Diversified technology company in its acquisition of a financial software provider
  
  
• Power generator in the $1.2 billion sale of its power generating assets to strategic buyers
  
  
• Online travel company in its private offering of preferred stock to venture capital fund
  
  
• Waste services company in connection with various acquisitions and investments
  
  
• Printing services company in various acquisitions
  
  
• Investment company in its investment in companies engaged in the food and beverage and industrial equipment industries
  
  
• Energy services company in its sales of various divisions to strategic and financial buyers
  
  
• Oil and gas exploration companies in various acquisitions
  
  
• International oil and gas company in its divestment of downstream assets in Central America
  
  
• International oil and gas companies in private and public offerings of debt and equity
  
  
• Industrial cable manufacturer in private offerings of debt and equity
  
  
• Owners and operators of passenger vessels, barges and tankers in U.S. government guaranteed ship construction financings
  
  
• Start-up high-speed passenger vessel owner in private offerings of debt and equity
  
  
• Mexican offshore construction company in its acquisition of foreign-flag support vessels
  
  
• International oil and gas company in its long-term lease of a drilling vessel

Selected Publications

• Co-contributor to chapter on Cleantech Financing in legal treatise Energy Law and Transactions, 2009.

Selected Representative Experience

Memberships

• American Bar Association, Business Law Section
• Houston Bar Association, Mergers and Acquisitions Section 
• District of Columbia Bar Association
• Advisory Board Member, Youth About Business M&A Camp