Dudley W. Murrey
Partner
Dudley Murrey practices in numerous areas of corporate and securities law. He represents multi-national companies and others in domestic, cross-border, and international corporate finance transactions, including public and private securities offerings, structured finance transactions, commercial lending arrangements, and facility and equipment financings. Dudley regularly advises clients on securities law compliance and corporate governance matters. In addition, he represents clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and the acquisition and financing of commercial and corporate aircraft, and counsels clients regarding internal and regulatory investigations and inquiries.
In his decades of practice, Dudley has represented a wide range of companies, from Fortune 150 companies to small, privately-held companies. His work for those clients has included representing them in some of their most important financings and transactions, ranging from international financings and acquisitions to the sale of the family business, as well as counseling them regarding matters affecting their daily operations.
Representative Experience
Since early 2005, Dudley has represented a Dow 30 company in numerous public offerings of more than a total of $21 billion of debt securities, including acting as the client’s United States counsel with respect to a public offering in Japan.
Other financings and transactions representative of Dudley’s experience are:
- representation of the issuer in a Rule 144A placement of $500 million of put reset notes
- representation of a Fortune 150 company in its $245 million synthetic lease financing of a major data processing facility
- representation of a Fortune 150 company in its sale of $150 million of receivables
- representation of borrowers in the negotiation and documentation of in excess of $10 billion of credit facilities
- representation of an aircraft finance company in the purchase, financing, lease, and disposition of nine Airbus A319 aircraft
- representation of an international finance company in the $750 million restructuring of an international broadband communications provider
- representation of originator in connection with securitization of $4 billion of government receivables
Events
RR Donnelley SEC Hot Topics Seminar, 2007 and 2008
Industries
Practices
- Capital Markets
- Corporate
- Corporate Compliance, Investigations and Defense
- Debt Financing
- Governance
- Securities
- Structured Finance and Securitization
Education
- JD, 1974, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, Southwestern Law Journal, Assistant Editor-in-Chief
- BA, 1971, high honors, Southern Methodist University
Admissions
- Texas 1974
Affiliations
Member
- State Bar of Texas