Sally A. Schreiber
Shareholder
Overview
For over 30 years, Sally has advised clients on a wide variety of corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity, partnership, franchise, contract and general business matters. Her clients range from small, start-up entities to large, publicly held companies. She has been actively involved in modernizing the business laws in Texas so that they better meet the needs of businesses.
Sally's experience includes mergers and acquisitions activity, representing both purchasers and sellers of businesses engaged in various industries including transportation, communications, home building, health care, manufacturing, energy, insurance, meat processing and restaurant; public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, as counsel to underwriters/dealer managers, as counsel for venture capital and private equity investors and as counsel to issuers engaged in various industries including health care, high tech and energy; various franchise matters including compliance with federal and state legal requirements and structuring and negotiating franchise relationships, both as counsel to franchisers and as counsel to franchisees or potential franchisees; day-to-day compliance with securities laws including periodic reporting requirements, proxy solicitations and dispositions of securities by insiders; structuring, implementing and analyzing various business organizations and relationships including corporations, general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies and relationships among the owners of such business organizations; drafting, negotiating and advising clients with respect to contracts of various types including financing, employment, consulting, noncompetition, warrant and option agreements.
Memberships & Affiliations
- California Bar Association
- Dallas Bar Association, Corporate Counsel, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Securities Sections
- State Bar of Texas, Business Law (Partnership and Limited Liability Company Committee, Member; Codification Committee, Member; Corporation Law Committee, Member) and Corporate Counsel Sections
- Texas Business Law Foundation, Director and Former Treasurer and Secretary
Awards & Honors
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
- Best Business Lawyers in Dallas, D Magazine, 2001
- Best Lawyers in America in Corporate Law, Woodward/White, Inc., 2006-2012
- Business/Corporate Super Lawyers — Corporate Counsel Edition, Thomson Reuters, 2009
- Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2003-2008
Admissions
- California
- Texas
Articles & Speeches
- 2006 — Executive Summary of the Texas Business Organizations Code
- May 27, 2005 — Checklists for Formation of a General Partnership Under the TBOC and the TRPA; Checklists for Formation of a Limited Partnership under the TBOC and the TRLPA (2005)
- May 28, 2004 — Critical Formation Choices: Checklists for Limited Partnerships and General Partnerships
- 2004 — Going Private Transactions
- January 1, 2003 — Drafting and Negotiating Limited Partnership Agreements From the General Partner and Limited Partner Perspectives (2003)
- July 18-19, 2002 — Developments in Securities Laws: Current Issues Affecting Partnerships, Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies
