Prior to forming his current firm, Bradley was a principal of Rapp Law Firm, PC, in Houston, Texas. Before that, he was a partner in the law firm of Meyer, Knight & Williams, L.L.P. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the State Bar of Texas, and is admitted to practice before the Texas State Courts and the United States Tax Court.
Bradley W. Rapp
ShareholderEducation
Texas A&M University
B.B.A. in Accounting, 1988
B.S. in Political Science, 1988
Hamline University School of Law
J.D. 1993
Admissions
Texas, 1993
Memberships & Activities
Houston Bar Association
Texas Aggie Bar Association
United States Naval Academy Parents Club
Houston A&M Club
Houston Christian High School Board of Trustees
Awards
Texas Super Lawyers 2024-2025
Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer-Reviewed
Brad concentrates his practice in business law, including transactions, operational and governance issues, real estate, and contract law. His practice includes general business matters; formation and financing of business ventures; entity choices and formation considerations for business entities: negotiating, documenting, and closing equity and asset acquisitions, mergers, and consolidations: business contract drafting, negotiations, and review: real estate sales, acquisitions, and foreclosures (judicial and no-judicial); negotiation and drafting of commercial and residential leases; commercial and residential loan documents for lending institutions; and planning for businesses and their owners, including protection and estate planning.
At my core, I thrive on helping people. Whether it is answering a simple question, working with them to structure a complicated plan, or undertaking an unknown (to them) process, I get satisfaction and comfort helping them in any way I can.
Representative Matters
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- Represented the group of owners of a conglomerate of commercial and marine boiler companies in the negotiation and documentation of the sale of the businesses to a competitor.
- Represented the owner of an insurance brokerage business in the sale of its book of business to a competing agency.
- Advised and directed a client on an exempt offering of corporate securities (“Reg D”) for a holding company of various insurance agencies.
- Represented a company in the termination and layoff of numerous employees in securing releases and waivers in exchange for negotiated severance payments.
- Regularly assist new ventures in the entity selection process and the drafting and negotiation of formation, governance and buy-sell documents.
- Completed a corporate merger and reorganization of a client’s numerous business into a structure to consolidate operations and insulate liabilities.
- Completed for a client the creation of a new class of ownership equity and the adoption of a plan to award such non-voting equity interests to management team and employees.
- Represented a client with the negotiation of a new Employee Agreement as a new executive at a Fortune 500 company.
- Assisted a “mom and pop” business with the succession transitioning of the ownership and operations of a business to children.
- Represented a minority owner of business in the purchase and buy-out of the majority owner.
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