P. Hunter Port
Partner
Telephone: 713 377 1377
Email: hport@portbumgarner.com

 

Hunter Port is a co-founder and partner at Port & Bumgarner LLP.  Hunter has a broad-based commercial and corporate transactions practice. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and other corporate matters, including  joint ventures, securities, financings, corporate governance, internal restructuring, and general contracting and business transactions.  

Prior to co-founding Port & Bumgarner LLP, Hunter spent nine years as an attorney in the Houston office of Norton Rose Fulbright (formerly Fulbright & Jaworski LLP), where he practiced in the Corporate, Business, and Banking Section.  Most recently, he served as General Counsel to MosquitoZone Corporation, an international vector-borne disease control company.  

Hunter's other interests include jiu jitsu, hunting, archery, surfing, and modern art.  

Representative Experience

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Represented a public drilling equipment manufacturer as acquirer in $2.5 billion public company merger
  • Represented a construction machinery company in the sale of its Mexico operations for approximately $80 million
  • Represented a diversified energy services company as acquirer in $650 million public company merger
  • Represented a public oilfield services company in its $120 million acquisition of a private drilling technology company
  • Represented a manufacturing company in the sale of its catalytic converter line for approximately $1.2 million
  • Represented a retail software company as acquirer in $17 million private company merger
  • Represented an upstream oil and gas company in connection with its $95 million acquisition of a privately-held oil and gas company and related financing
  • Represented a specialty-bedding retailer in connection with multiple acquisitions of similar entities
  • Represented a private company in the sale of a majority interest in its vehicle rental and leasing business for approximately $17 million
  • Represented a public manufacturer in its $23 million acquisition of a private company
  • Represented a private company in the sale of its newspaper printing and distribution business for approximately $18.5 million
  • Represented a master limited partnership in its acquisition of gathering and processing assets from its parent company
  • Represented a machine manufacturing company in its $9 million acquisition of a competitor’s aftermarket parts and services division
  • Represented an international power generation company in its $24 million acquisition of an oil and gas power services company
  • Represented an offshore services company in the sale of its diving division and related assets
  • Represented a private investment company in connection with the sale of interests in its power plant venture and related negotiations with its partners
  • Represented a midstream services company in the sale of its natural gas gathering system and related assets

Corporate Governance

  • Represented a public company audit committee in a whistleblower investigation
  • Assisted several public companies in the preparation and maintenance of their corporate governance plans and policies

Capital Markets, Private Equity, and SEC Compliance

  • Represented an offshore drilling services company in its spin-off from its publicly traded parent company
  • Represented a Houston-based energy services provider in a $288 million IPO of its shallow-water diving services subsidiary
  • Represented a local business in its private placement of preferred stock
  • Represented a private secondary recovery technology company in its $1.5 million bridge financing
  • Assisted multiple public companies with SEC reporting and compliance matters

Finance and Lending

  • Represented a forged products manufacturing company in a $400 million secured credit facility
  • Represented an energy services company in connection with acquisition financing in the amount of $675 million
  • Represented an oilfield services technology company in a $2 million revolving credit facility
  • Represented a privately owned oil and gas exploration and production company in its debt restructuring

Real Estate

  • Represented an engine and machinery company in its $2 million real property exchange
  • Represented a downhole tools manufacturer in connection with multiple real property acquisitions and commercial lease negotiations

Other

  • Represented a public drilling contractor in the sale of its assets in liquidation
  • Represented the conflicts committee of the board of directors of a master limited partnership in their review and approval of a storage project to be undertaken with related entities
  • Assisted in formation of a joint venture to construct and operate an interstate natural gas pipeline
  • Represented a software company in its private liquidation
  • Represented a petroleum products storage company in its negotiation of various storage agreements
  • Represented a chemical company in its preparation and negotiation of an electric substation agreement
  • Represented a U.S. subsidiary of an international oilfield products company in its settlement of a shareholder dispute
  • Assisted an engineering firm in establishing foreign branches in the Middle East and Canada
  • Represented an exploration and production company in the formation and negotiation of a joint venture storage project in California
  • Represented both public and private companies in multiple internal corporate restructurings
  • Counseled a forged products manufacturing company in connection with a variety of ongoing employment-related matters, including hiring and firing policies, option grants, and other equity awards
  • Represented a vector-borne disease control company in connection with a broad variety of legal matters, including customer bid proposals and master services agreements, mergers and acquisitions, vendor contracting, licensing, foreign operations, employment and compensation, as well as general corporate and organizational matters

Education

  •  J.D., Cum Laude, 2004, The University of Houston Law Center                        
  •  B.A., Magna Cum Laude, 2001, St. Edward’s University     

Professional Memberships

  • State Bar of Texas