Chuck Powell handles venture capital, angel capital, private equity financings and public offerings. His clients are venture capital funds and technology companies, including businesses involved in the energy technology, life science and information technology industries.

Chuck has closed over 320 seed, angel, venture capital, private equity and IPO transactions ranging from $500,000 to $600,000,000, including:

• Energy and Energy Technology:
  • IPOs of oil and gas exploration company, energy service company, oilwell workover well servicing company, natural gas trading company and offshore drilling company
  • Venture Capital Financings of gas sensor technology, oilwell downhole motor technology, composite oil production riser technology, oil well measure while drilling technology, microbacterial oil secondary recovery
  • Private Equity Financings, $100 million preferred stock placement of downstream business, recapitalization of deepwater exploration business, $200,000,000 restructure of energy service manufacturer, and $60 million PIPE transaction for NYSE seismic products manufacturer
  • Mergers and Acquisitions including $100 million acquisition of energy service tubular goods company, $45 million sale of mid stream portfolio company of private equity firm, sale of upstream energy tool company, sale of robotics drilling tool technology company and $60 million merger of an online well service and product procurement company
• Information Technology:
  • IPOs of computer software and computer hardware companies
  • Venture Capital Financing of an enterprise software company
  • Private Equity spin off of E&P software business
• Telecom:
  • Venture Capital Financings including $150 million investment in wireless backhaul services company, financing of antennae technology company, telecom site safety monitoring business and wireless company
  • Mergers and Acquisitions including sale of telecommunications reseller; sale of antennae technology company; sale of telecom monitoring company
• Life Science:
  • Venture Capital Financings for pharmaceutical brain imaging technology, genome sequencing and cardiovascular diagnostic device companies

• MIT Enterprise Forum of Texas
  • Director (1992 - 2003)
  • Chairman (1997 - 1998)
• Houston Technology Center
  • Securities Counsel (1999 - 2011)
  • Vice Chairman of Board of Directors (2007 - 2008)
  • Chairman of Advisory Board of Directors (2005 - 2007)
• Technology Executives Club of Houston
• Houston Entrepreneurs Foundation - Steering Committee
• Houston Angel Network - Legal counsel and Founder group
• Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship - Faculty and Business Plan Judge (2006 - 2011)

• Legal 500 US, Leading Lawyer - Technology (2010)
• Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers, top three in the Technology, Corporate and Commercial Sectors (2004 - 2010)
• "Texas Best Lawyers," Corporate Law, Corporate Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Technology Law, Venture Capital Law, ALM/Incisive Legal Group (2007 - 2010)
• Best Lawyers in America, Woodward White, Inc. (1999 - 2011)
• "Leading Practitioner," Legal Media Group World's Leading Private Equity Lawyers, Euromoney Institutional Investor (2005 - 2010)
• "Texas Super Lawyer," Law & Politics (2003 - 2010)

• "Venture Capital Best Practices," Aspatore Books 
• "Self Representation," Houston Business Journal
• "Do's and Taboos of Raising Venture Capital," Houston Technology Center
• "How to Avoid Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: The Most Common Legal Problems Entrepreneurs Encounter and How to Solve Them,"  Houston Technology Center
• "Current Trends in Venture Capital Financing,"  Houston Technology Center
• "Term Sheet Forms," The Houston Angel Network, Inc.
• "Multi-Classes of Stock and Preferred Stock Redemption Provisions," The Seminar Group
• "Representing the Ailing Dot.Com," The New High Tech Industry Course, State Bar of Texas
• "International Joint Ventures," World Trade Magazine
• "Introduction to Securities Law," National Business Institute
• "Buying or Selling a Business in Texas," National Business Institute
  

• "Ethical Principles of Outside Counsel (Issuer's Counsel) to Outside Investors, Amendment to State Bar of Texas Rules," Houston Bar Association, 2010
• "Avoiding Legal Mistakes in Technology Company Formation, Capitalization and Operations," Rice Alliance's Technology Entrepreneurship Workshop, 2009 
• "Reverse Mergers-Panacea or Perilous?," Houston Technology Center, 2006
• "Angel Investing in Houston," Houston Technology Center, June 2006
• "Exit Strategies for Startup Companies," Houston Technology Center Educational Seminar Series, August 2005
• "Ethical Principles of Counsel to Outside Investors," State Bar of Texas, 2005
• "Legal Issues Associated with Raising Capital for the Startup," Rice Institute, 2005
• "The Venture Capital Process and Angel Financing," TechLaw Conference, 2005
• "Angel Investment Structures," Houston Angel Network, January 2003
• "Investor Equity Expectations," President's Forum, The Entrepreneurship Institute, October 2002
• "Startup and Early Stage Company Capital Formation," President's Forum, The Entrepreneurship Institute, October 2002
• "Raising Capital: Mapping a Course for Success," Southwest Bio Venture Conference, 2001
• "Revisiting the Venture Capital Term Sheet," State Bar of Texas, 2001
• "Securities Law for the Non Securities Professional," National Business Institute, 1986

1979 - J.D., The University of Texas School of Law
1976 - B.A., History, Columbia University

Chuck is admitted to practice law in the state of Texas.