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Austin Paalz is an associate in the Corporate, Finance and Investments Practice Group of King & Spalding’s Houston office. Austin counsels clients on a variety of topics, including mergers, acquisitions, project development, joint ventures, commercial transactions and corporate governance. Austin has extensive experience representing clients on acquisitions and sales of private companies and representing energy companies on acquisitions, development and divestments of energy infrastructure projects.
Before joining King & Spalding, Austin graduated with High Honors from Emory University School of Law in 2020 and was invited to join the Order of the Coif. While in law school, he was an Executive Managing Editor on the Emory Law Journal. Austin also had his work, Patent Wars: The Attack of Blockchain, published in the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal in 2020.
J.D., Emory University School of Law, with high honors, Order of the Coif
B.A. Political Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Business Law Certificate, with Honors
Texas
September 3, 2024
Weatherford International plc Acquires Datagration Solutions, Inc.
August 28, 2024
Jason Peters, Katie Blaszak and Austin Paalz advise Iconex on its acquisition by M2S Group
Represented CENTAURI Technologies, LP, a technology-driven manufacturer of specialty materials and chemical formulations, in its sale to Aurorium (formerly Vertellus), a portfolio company of Pritzker Private Capital.
Represented a US development company on the sale of various battery energy storage projects totaling approximately 2.65 gigawatts of anticipated operational capacity.
Represented The Carlyle Group and its portfolio company, Cogentrix Energy Power Management, LLC, on the sale of a 600 MW portfolio of six operating wind projects in New York.
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September 3, 2024
Weatherford International plc Acquires Datagration Solutions, Inc.
August 28, 2024
Jason Peters, Katie Blaszak and Austin Paalz advise Iconex on its acquisition by M2S Group
Represented CENTAURI Technologies, LP, a technology-driven manufacturer of specialty materials and chemical formulations, in its sale to Aurorium (formerly Vertellus), a portfolio company of Pritzker Private Capital.
Represented a US development company on the sale of various battery energy storage projects totaling approximately 2.65 gigawatts of anticipated operational capacity.
Represented The Carlyle Group and its portfolio company, Cogentrix Energy Power Management, LLC, on the sale of a 600 MW portfolio of six operating wind projects in New York.
See more
September 3, 2024
Weatherford International plc Acquires Datagration Solutions, Inc.
August 28, 2024
Jason Peters, Katie Blaszak and Austin Paalz advise Iconex on its acquisition by M2S Group
J.D., Emory University School of Law, with high honors, Order of the Coif
B.A. Political Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Business Law Certificate, with Honors
Texas