My willingness to work hard, combined with a thorough, detail-oriented work product, allows me to better serve our clients' business needs and interests.
Lynsey Hyde represents buyers and sellers in various business transactions, including equity acquisitions, asset acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures. She also assists the firm’s clients with various corporate governance matters, including entity formations, entity restructurings, entity dissolutions and other general corporate matters.
Lynsey has worked with mid-size companies, family-owned businesses and publicly-traded corporations across a range of industries, including energy, real estate, metal processing and distribution, engineering and many more.
Representative Experience
- Assisted in representing NEC Inc., a Houston-based manufacturer of PVC-coated electrical conduit and fittings, in its control recapitalization by Valesco Industries, with co-investors Hidden River Strategic Capital and GMB Capital Partners, in partnership with NEC's founder and management team.
- Assisted in representing the founders of a family-owned, Texas-based provider of industrial crankshaft repair and metal plating services in the sale of the company to a sponsor-backed industrial services platform pursuing complementary acquisitions, including negotiation of the purchase agreement, equity arrangements, and related transaction matters.
- Gray Reed was counsel to ESCUS Corp., a Delaware corporation and Elastochem affiliate, in its $2.8 million capital contribution and $1 million loan to Hudson River Properties, LLC to facilitate the redemption of all membership interests held by Foam Supplies, Inc.
- Assisted in representing the founders of 1st Avenue Advisors LLC, an AI and technology-driven accounting-ancillary business, in its two-stage sale to a private equity firm.
- Assisted in representing the founders and shareholders of an industrial engineering services company in the $42 million sale to a private equity-backed acquirer, encompassing a 15% equity rollover, pre-closing tax reorganization, and management incentive arrangements.
- Assisted Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc., the operating subsidiary of Ryerson Holding Corporation (NYSE: RYI), in the acquisition of Howard Precision Metals, Inc., one of the largest aluminum distributors in the Midwest.
- Assisted with the acquisition of a $126M stabilized commercial real estate portfolio in New Mexico.
- Assisted with the acquisition of a controlling interest of a joint venture entity which owns the historic Mellie Esperson building located in downtown Houston.
- Assisted a Houston-based construction company that has handled large civil construction projects for over 40 years in connection with a sale of all of its assets to a family-office equity fund.
- Assisted an industrial and environmental services provider in a $65 million acquisition of all of the equity securities of a competitor, including a partial equity rollover by certain founders into the acquirer and the restatement of term and revolving credit facilities in order to fund the acquisition.
- Assisted a group of urgent care centers in an approximate $150 million equity recapitalization involving over 60 equity owners.
- Assisted seller in $24 million sale of five apartment complexes in Houston area.
- Assisted the sponsor of a special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”) in the formation and capitalization of the sponsor and its role in the SPAC’s $100 million initial public offering.
Honors
- Named a Rising Star by Texas Super Lawyers (a Thomson Reuters company) as published in Texas Monthly and Texas Super Lawyers magazines (2025)
- Order of the Lytae
- CALI Academic Awards (for earning the highest grade in class):
- Contracts II
- Federal Income Taxation
- Payment Systems (Commercial Paper)
- Marital Property
- Administrative Law
- Death Penalty Seminar
- Professional Responsibility
When I Feel Most At Home
- Spending time with my husband and son
- Trying new restaurants, travelling and watching movies (preferably a good horror flick)
- Indoor cycling
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