The Hunton & Williams LLP Immigration practice, part of the firm's Labor and Employment Team, is concentrated in two major areas. First our work involves advising American and foreign businesses about obtaining the most appropriate temporary and permanent work visas for executives, professionals, and other skilled foreign workers. Careful planning and documentation are necessary to ensure the greatest chance of success. We also represent our clients in any negotiations or administrative...
Practice Expertise
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Capital Markets and Securities
- Pipeline
- Corporate
Areas of Practice
- Capital Markets and Securities
- Corporate
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Pipeline
- Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
- Energy
- Financial Services
- Food Industry
- International and Cross-Border Transactions
- Private Equity
- Retail and Consumer Products View More
Profile
Austin counsels strategic clients, private equity funds, and their portfolio companies in executing merger and acquisition strategies and has extensive experience advising clients in connection with domestic and cross-border acquisitions and dispositions. Austin focuses his practice on transactions in the private middle-market. He has represented clients in connection with more than 100 acquisitions and divestitures. He also serves as trusted counsel to in-house legal teams and business principals on day-to-day governance and contracting issues.
Austin’s experience covers a breadth of industries and client types, including financial services companies (particularly mortgage industry participants), fastener and component manufacturers, consumer retail brands, food manufacturing and packaging brands, major US energy companies (particularly regarding midstream and upstream assets), entrepreneurs exiting their companies, and energy producers in tax credit transactions.
Bar Admissions
Education
JD, Duke University School of Law, 2014
BA, University of North Carolina, 2011
Areas of Practice
- Capital Markets and Securities
- Corporate
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Pipeline
- Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
- Energy
- Financial Services
- Food Industry
- International and Cross-Border Transactions
- Private Equity
- Retail and Consumer Products
Professional Career
Articles
Expanding the Beachhead: Why Banks Should be Using the Main Street Lending Facilities
By Austin Maloney |October 2020
- 2021 Retail M&A Year in Review, Retail Industry 2021 Year in Review
- M&A Quarterly Reporter – 2021 Q3
- M&A Quarterly Reporter – 2022 Q1
Blogs
Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog
Updates, Analysis and Breaking News for Commercial Policyholders
Pipeline Law
Connecting You To the Flow of Latest News and Industry Information
The Nickel Report
Trends and Developments in Energy and Environmental Law
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