Robert

White

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500 N. Akard Street, Suite 4000
Dallas, TX 75201

Overview

Robert provides comprehensive counseling on mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate law matters across a variety of industries, such as health care, construction, and home service providers.

Robert’s extensive M&A experience includes complex cross-border transactions, sophisticated for-profit/non-profit joint venture arrangements, leveraged buyouts, minority investments, and business sales to both strategic and financial acquirers. Robert also supports early and growth-stage companies and investors in navigating securities compliance and negotiating favorable exit and liquidation options.

Robert also counsels numerous companies on day-to-day corporate matters, including formation matters, SEC compliance, commercial contracts, debt financing, and the negotiation and drafting of employment agreements and incentive awards.

Prior to the practice of law, Robert had a distinguished 11-year career as a police officer and was an adjunct professor of criminal justice. Outside of the office, Robert coaches Special Olympics golf and YMCA youth basketball.

Education

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Achievements

Woodward/White, Inc. – Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Corporate Law (2026)

Overview

Robert provides comprehensive counseling on mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate law matters across a variety of industries, such as health care, construction, and home service providers.

Robert’s extensive M&A experience includes complex cross-border transactions, sophisticated for-profit/non-profit joint venture arrangements, leveraged buyouts, minority investments, and business sales to both strategic and financial acquirers. Robert also supports early and growth-stage companies and investors in navigating securities compliance and negotiating favorable exit and liquidation options.

Robert also counsels numerous companies on day-to-day corporate matters, including formation matters, SEC compliance, commercial contracts, debt financing, and the negotiation and drafting of employment agreements and incentive awards.

Prior to the practice of law, Robert had a distinguished 11-year career as a police officer and was an adjunct professor of criminal justice. Outside of the office, Robert coaches Special Olympics golf and YMCA youth basketball.

Experience

  • Building Supplier Acquisition

    Represented a Fortune 500 building products supplier in numerous roll-up acquisitions, including coordination with the client’s C-Suite

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  • Nuclear Power Facility Divestiture

    Represented a Fortune 20 company in its divestiture of a nuclear power facility to a foreign buyer. 

  • Ophthalmology Practice Acquisition

    Represented a private equity buyer in its $90 MM acquisition of a California-based ophthalmology practice. 

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