Justin Jackson

Shareholder, Practice Group Leader

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Bio overview

Justin Jackson counsels companies and individuals in a wide array of corporate and securities transactions and currently serves as the leader of the firm’s Securities Group and co-leader of the Business Transactions and Finance Group. He has assisted clients with public and private offerings of equity and debt securities; secured and unsecured debt financings; private equity and venture capital formation and investments; arrangements between equity owners; executive employment and compensation plans and agreements; mergers and acquisitions; tender offers; recapitalizations; going-private transactions; share repurchase programs; and securities and other regulatory matters. He also assists publicly held clients with public reporting and disclosure, regulatory compliance (including Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank and securities exchange compliance), director and officer fiduciary duties, and corporate governance and policies.

Justin advises investment advisers, investment companies, venture capital funds, private equity funds, and their service providers on regulatory and compliance matters under federal and state securities laws.

As part of his practice, Justin serves as outside counsel for a number of clients, providing general corporate legal services, contract drafting and negotiation, as well as day-to-day business counsel. 

Justin is also an experienced franchise lawyer. He has assisted clients with organizing and structuring franchise and other distribution programs; negotiating and preparing complex franchise, sub-franchise and distribution agreements; representing franchisors and sub-franchisors in compliance with franchise disclosure and registration laws; preventing and resolving franchise disputes; assisting in franchise terminations; joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions and capital raising for franchise and growth companies; and other related corporate and business matters.

Justin’s achievements have earned him inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (business organizations; corporate governance law; corporate law; securities/capital markets law).  He was selected by Best Lawyers as “Oklahoma City Business Organizations Lawyer of the Year” in 2023 and “Oklahoma City Securities/Capital Markets Lawyer of the Year” for 2021.

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Experience, Honors, & Awards

Representative Experience

  • Represented Reasor’s LLC, an Oklahoma-based grocery store chain with operations at 17 locations in northeastern Oklahoma, in connection with the sale of its business to Brookshire Grocery Company, a regional grocery store chain with operations at more than 180 locations in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
  • Represented an Oklahoma-based venture capital fund and its general partner in connection with fund formation and raising capital. Justin continues to represent the fund and its general partner with respect to regulatory compliance and operational matters, including structuring and negotiation of investments.
  • Represented an Oregon-based pharmaceutical company in connection with the offering and sale of Series A Preferred Stock.
  • Represented a publicly traded insurance holding company in connection with the public issuance and sale of $550 million aggregate principal amount of the company’s 4.550% Senior Notes.
  • Represented NGL Energy Partners LP (NYSE: NGL), a vertically integrated energy business, in the sale of the remainder of its retail propane business for $900 million to Toronto, Canada-based Superior Plus Corp. (TSX: SPB).
  • Represented a publicly traded financial services holding company specializing in life and supplemental health insurance in connection with the public issuance and sale of $300 million aggregate principal amount of the company’s 6.125% Junior Subordinated Debentures.
  • Represented a publicly traded bank holding company in its acquisition by merger of an Oklahoma bank holding company with branch banks in Oklahoma and Colorado in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $40 million.
  • Represented an Oklahoma-based oil and natural gas production and exploitation company in the issuance of $300 million of its 9.875% Senior Notes in a Rule 144A debt offering, and the subsequent exchange offer of the 144A notes for registered notes.
  • Represented Lemonis Fischer Acquisition Company, LLC in the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Crumbs Bake Shop, Inc., a publicly traded company and the largest cupcake specialty store chain in the United States, pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code. The purchase price included a credit bid of Crumbs’ outstanding prepetition debt, in addition to debtor-in-possession financing provided during the bankruptcy.
  • Represented an Oklahoma-based oil and natural gas production and exploitation company in a tender offer for $325 million of its outstanding 8.875% Senior Notes and redemption of all notes not tendered in the tender offer.
  • Represented an Oklahoma-based oil and natural gas production and exploitation company in the issuance of $400 million of its 8.25% Senior Notes in a Rule 144A debt offering, and the subsequent exchange offer of the 144A notes for registered notes.
  • Represented an Oklahoma-based oil and natural gas production and exploitation company in a tender offer for $325 million of its 8.5% outstanding Senior Notes and redemption of all notes not tendered in the tender offer.
  • Represented an Oklahoma-based oil and natural gas production and exploitation company in the issuance of $400 million of its 7.625% Senior Notes in a Rule 144A debt offering, and the subsequent exchange offer of the 144A notes for registered notes.
  • Represented an Oklahoma-based oil and natural gas production and exploitation company in the issuance of $150 million of its 7.625% Senior Notes in a Rule 144A debt offering.
  • Represented an Oklahoma-based oil and natural gas production and exploitation company in a $345 million private placement of its common stock to a private equity fund.
  • Represented a Tulsa-based oil and natural gas exploration company in the private offering of $275 million of common stock and $275 million of notes and warrants to a private investor group. The transaction resulted in a change of control of the company.
  • Represented a publicly held Tulsa-based oil and natural gas exploration company in the establishment of an at-the-market offering program for up to $25 million of the company’s common stock.
  • Represented a publicly held Tulsa-based oil and natural gas exploration company in the refinancing of its existing credit facility and entering into a new $250 first lien revolving credit facility and a $75 million second lien term loan facility.
  • Represented a public educational software company based in Oklahoma City in a going-private transaction.
  • Represented the shareholders of a California-based designer and manufacturer of gaming-related products for casino gaming and lottery industries, in the sale of all the company’s stock to a Canadian company that is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, for $25 million.
  • Represented Dippin’ Dots, LLC in its acquisition of all of the assets of Doc Popcorn Franchising, Inc., a gourmet popcorn franchising company with retail locations throughout the United States, Japan, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
  • Represented numerous issuers in connection with private offerings of securities.
  • Represented various issuers and boards of directors in ongoing corporate governance and public reporting and disclosure.
  • Representation of various businesses and individuals in connection with merger review and Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust compliance matters.
  • Represented ADFITECH, Inc. (OTC: ADFT), a leading provider of outsourced mortgage services in North America, in the sale of the company to Mortgage Connect, LP in an all-cash merger transaction.

Honors and Awards

  • Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (business organizations; corporate governance law; corporate law; securities/capital markets law)
  • Named “Oklahoma City Business Organizations Lawyer of the Year” for 2023 and “Oklahoma City Securities/Capital Markets Lawyer of the Year” for 2021 by The Best Lawyers in America
  • Named “Oklahoma City Securities/Capital Markets Lawyer of the Year” for 2021 by The Best Lawyers in America
  • Rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings

Professional Organizations and Memberships

  • Oklahoma County Bar Association
  • Oklahoma Bar Association

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At The Podium

Executive Compensation: Corporate best practices and planning opportunities

2015 Corporate Counsel Seminar
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | December 3, 2015

2014 Proxy Statement Interactive Workshop Legal Considerations

RR Donnelley’s Proxy Statement Interactive Breakfast Seminar
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | October 9, 2014

Private Offering Basics

BioScience Roundtable Luncheon
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | November 18, 2011
Attorney Articles

Articles

Image of businessman on laptop with cybersecurity graphics overlayed and the Securities and Exchange Commission logo seal

SEC on offense for cyber defense: New rules for companies

The Journal Record |
Securities and Exchange Commission building

SEC adopts new cybersecurity rules for public companies

McAfee & Taft Cybersecurity Alert |
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Admissions

  • Oklahoma, 2000
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Education

  • J.D., with highest honors, University of Oklahoma, 2000
    • Order of the Coif; Recipient, William T. and James T. Comfort Scholarship
  • B.A. (Finance), with special distinction, University of Oklahoma, 1997
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