• Corporate
  • Corporate Governance
  • Investment Advisers and Investment Funds
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Securities
• Private Equity Industry Team
• Securities and Corporate Governance Team

Richard A. Tulli has more than 30 years of experience working on various corporate and securities matters for privately-held and publicly-held companies, boards of directors and board committees, executive officers, shareholders, private equity and venture capital firms, institutional investors, investment managers, and sponsors of private investment funds.

Mr. Tulli has assisted clients with: public and private or exempt offerings of equity and debt securities; secured and unsecured debt financings and refinancings; private equity and venture capital investments; arrangements between equity owners; executive employment and compensation plans and agreements; executive severance arrangements; mergers and acquisitions; tender offers; recapitalizations; leveraged buyouts; going-private transactions; formation of, and investment in, private investment funds; investment management accounts and relationships; and securities and other regulatory matters. He has also assisted publicly-held clients with public reporting and disclosure, regulatory compliance (including Sarbanes-Oxley and securities exchange compliance), director and officer fiduciary duties, and corporate governance and policies.

Mr. Tulli is a member of Gardere's Securities and Corporate Governance Group and Gardere's Private Equity Team.

Mr. Tulli’s representative matters include:

• Acquisitions of three privately held manufacturing companies in Texas by Williams Holdings PLC.
• Acquisitions of various privately-held advertising and marketing companies in Texas by Omnicom Group Inc.
• Merger of Check Express Inc. with subsidiary of ACE Cash Express Inc.
• Merger of Data Medical Associates with subsidiary of Thermo Electron Corporation.
• Merger of Texberry Container Corporation with RXI Holdings Inc.
• Sale of CNet Inc. to Glenayre Technologies, Inc.
• Sale of Sun Mark Inc. to Sunglass Hut Holdings Corp.
• Sale of T́a's Inc. to Morrison Restaurants Inc.

• J.D., Harvard Law School (1979)
  • Articles Editor, Harvard Journal on Legislation
  • Executive Editor, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy
• B.A., Valparaiso University, with high distinction  (1976)

Publications

• Co-Author with Kevin A. Chumney, Issues in Buy-Sell, Push-Pull, Russian Roulette or Texas Shootout Provisions, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP (May 11, 2012).

Speeches

• Presenter, Address to Securities Section of the Dallas Bar Association: More from Dodd-Frank - New Listing Rules for Compensation Committees and Advisors (March 25, 2013).
• Co-Presenter with Rick Jordan and Larry Schoenbrun, Address at Session Six of the Gardere M&A Toolbox: Definitive Agreement - Part Two (March 20, 2012).

• Member, State Bar of Texas
  • Business Law Section
    • Former Section Chair (2010-2011)
    • Former Council Member
    • Member, Business Organizations Code Committee
    • Member, Securities Law Committee
    • Former Chair, Information Committee
    • Former Chair, Legal Opinions Committee
    • Former Chair, Corporation Laws Committee
• Member, American Bar Association
  • Business Law Section
    • Member, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee
    • Member, Legal Opinions Committee
    • Member, Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee
• Director, Texas Business Law Foundation
• Director, National Association of Corporate Directors, North Texas Chapter

• Recognized, The Best Lawyers in America (Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith eds., Woodward/White Inc.) (2008-2013)
  • Corporate Law
• Recognized, Texas Super Lawyers, Law & Politics Media Inc. as published in Texas Monthly (each year since its first publication in 2003)
  • Securities and Corporate Finance
• Recognized, The Best Business Lawyers in Dallas, D Magazine (2007-2009)
  • Corporate Finance/Mergers & Acquisitions
• Recognized, AV^® Preeminent^™ 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell^® PEER REVIEW RATINGS^™

• Board Member and Corporate Secretary, St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store of Dallas
• Volunteer, Christ the King Catholic Church
• Volunteer, Saint Jude Chapel