Kendra focuses her practice on business and transactional law matters including entity choice and formation, contract drafting and review, mergers and acquisitions, capital raises and investments, corporate restructuring and reorganization strategy, due diligence for company purchases and sales, and general corporate compliance, reporting advice, and risk mitigation strategies. She also focuses on transactional labor and employment matters, including employment agreements, noncompetes and restrictive agreements, employee separation agreements, residential and commercial real estate sales, purchases and leases.
While earning her Juris Doctor at Georgetown University Law Center, Kendra was a senior articles editor of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and a student attorney in the Social Enterprise and Nonprofit Law clinic. She also served as a law clerk on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary for Senator John Cornyn. Before joining Rapp & Krock, Kendra was an associate attorney in the Houston office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, where she represented buyers and sellers in middle market and large private equity company mergers, acquisitions, stock issuances, and asset sales, with a concentration in transactions in the energy and software sectors.
Representative Matters
- Represented asset and equity sales and purchases ranging from $100,000 to over $1 billion, including a cross-border merger of a global manufacturing company.
- Conducted due diligence for numerous mergers and acquisitions, including a multimillion-dollar acquisition of an oil and gas exploration and production company.
- Assisted private equity firm in successful exercise of its joint venture tag-along rights in an asset acquisition.
- Reviewed, revised, and negotiated business contracts, including supplier agreements, marketing contracts, and confidentiality agreements, for an international-based energy company.
- Drafted standard terms and conditions for a company website for incorporation into standard purchase orders.
- Advised owners of companies on new member additions and capital investments.
- Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated restrictive covenant agreements, employment and independent contractor agreements, consultant agreements, and employee separation agreements, consultant agreements, and employee separation agreements for employers.