Craig L. Evans

Partner

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Craig is a partner in the Corporate Finance Division who brings significant experience in the areas of mergers and acquisitions involving public and private companies, public and exempt offerings of securities, securities law compliance, technology-driven joint ventures, strategic alliances and corporate governance. He has drafted and negotiated asset and stock acquisitions, mergers, auctions, tender offers, divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures, strategic alliances and investments. Craig represents clients with respect to going-private transactions, offerings of common and preferred stock, debt securities and convertible securities. He has counseled public and private companies and their boards of directors with respect to fiduciary duty issues arising in the context of mergers and acquisitions, implementing takeover defense plans for public companies, standstill agreements and special charter and bylaw provisions and responses to takeover threats and unsolicited stock accumulations. Craig has particular experience in the energy industry, representing oil and gas producers, midstream companies and refining and marketing companies.

Representative Experience

Representation of Inergy L.P. in its $725 million acquisition of the Tres Palacios gas storage facility
Representation of FCStone Group, Inc. in connection with its merger with International Assets Holding Corporation
Representation of FCStone Group, Inc. in connection with its $140 million initial public offering and $94 million secondary offering
Representation of Entertainment Properties Trust in more than $900 million of public equity and debt financings
Representation of Quest Midstream Partners, L.P. in its $90 million private placement of common units
Representation of Quest Resource Corporation in connection with its $85 million public offering of common stock
Representation of Premium Standard Farms, Inc. in connection with its $138 million initial public offering
Representation of QC Holdings, Inc. in connection with its $80 million initial public offering
Representation of FCStone Group, Inc. in connection with its corporate restructuring from a cooperative to a business corporation, including the registered issuance of $43 million of common stock upon conversion of member interests, the registered sale of $1.7 million of common stock, and the sale of $4.5 million of common stock to a newly formed ESOP
Representation of Cerner Corporation in connection with the $100 million acquisition of VitalWorks, Inc.
Representation of Gateway Energy Corporation in connection with the sale of pipeline assets and negotiation of gas transportation agreements
Representation of management in going private transaction for NPC International, Inc., including $190 million credit and term loan and $100 million senior secured notes and related securities work
Representation of Sprint Corporation in connection with the spin-off of Sprint Cellular, including the public offering of $900 million of senior notes, an $800 million bank credit facility, takeover defense planning and listing of the common stock on the New York Stock Exchange

Education

University of Kansas, J.D., 1985

William Jewell College, B.A., 1982

Bar Admissions

Texas, 1985
Missouri, 1997