Jeff Hassell is a shareholder at GableGotwals, where he has practiced law since 1987, except for nearly three years when he served as outside and in-house general counsel of The F&M Bank & Trust Company. He advises various businesses, financial institutions, and individual and corporate trustees in business and commercial matters such as mergers and acquisitions, commercial finance, loan workouts, debtor-creditor rights, project development, project finance, entity structure, business reorganizations, commercial contracts, executive compensation, and shareholder relations.
Jeff has been recognized for career achievement in many ways, including being named as one of the top 50 lawyers in Oklahoma by Super Lawyers, and also as a Best Lawyer in banking and finance, corporate law, bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights.
Jeff is the immediate past chair of the Oklahoma Bar Association Business and Corporate Law section. He has also been very involved in a variety of community organizations – he is past president of the Rotary Club of Tulsa and is the immediate past president of The Committee of One Hundred – Tulsa.
Representative Experience:
- Sale of professional advisory firm Stinnett & Associates to CBIZ Inc., a publicly-traded company that operates in 32 states.
- Purchase of a high-end carwash business with eleven locations in operation or under development.
- Buyer of an NGL transportation pipeline and related facilities in Texas and Louisiana.
- Bidder to acquire $1+ billion of natural gas and natural gas liquids pipelines and processing plants in Texas.
- Development of an underground salt dome storage facility.
- Publicly-traded borrower under $240 million syndicated credit facility.
- Lender to the purchaser of the Unit Corporation headquarters building In Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- Midstream oil and gas company in the sale of a partial interest in a marine terminal joint venture.
- Optical device company in issuance of Series A Preferred Stock.
- Family-owned manufacturer of large diameter flanges, rings and disks in sale of the company to a national acquisition and investment company.
- Publicly-traded purchaser of a local manufacturing facility.
- Developer of a new parking facility in downtown Tulsa.
- Tribal-related gaming enterprise in regard to its syndicated $850 million credit facility.
- Sellers of stock in a bank holding company.
- Local company in the purchase and development of new facilities near Austin, Texas and El Paso, Texas.
- Purchaser of stock in a local company that manufactures valves and other equipment used in energy and other industrial facilities.
- Lender in a $43 million loan to a radio broadcasting company with operations in six states.
- Midstream oil and gas company in a $1.4 billion transaction involving ownership interests in a crude oil pipeline joint venture.
- Midstream company in the $195 million purchase of an interest in a gas pipeline joint venture.
- Lender in the replacement financing for Patriot Golf Club.
- Multi-state telecommunications company in a recapitalization involving a new private equity shareholder.
- Professional athletes in matters involving business investments and agreements related to sports agents, publicity and promotion, social media, music, television, film, apparel, and appearance.
- Midstream companies in the formation and restructure of joint ventures for a Texas crude oil pipeline and a Wisconsin gas pipeline.