Brandon Bloom
Partner
Brandon Bloom
+1.214.969.1415
Overview
Brandon Bloom is a tax attorney in Holland & Knight's Dallas office. He focuses on providing sophisticated tax planning for private equity fund formation and structuring, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), divestitures, restructurings, joint ventures and financing transactions.
Mr. Bloom advises private equity funds and their portfolio companies, family offices and public companies, as well as closely held private companies and partnerships. He represents clients in a variety of industries and has significant experience advising clients in the energy and real estate sectors.
Representative Experience
- Represented M/C Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, in a significant growth investment in Celito, a communications and managed services provider based in Raleigh, North Carolina
- Advised the energy division of a multinational chemical company in its entrance into the United States onshore oil and gas market with the $1.4 billion acquisition of a portion of an American exploration and production (E&P) company's oil and gas assets in South Texas
- Advised a leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel in its acquisition of a company's used cooking oil (UCO) collection and aggregation business
- Advised a leading global producer of specialty chemicals for water-intensive industries, on its acquisition of a specialty chemical manufacturer
- Advised a search fund backed by a prominent group of family offices in the formation and funding of a real estate management, investment and development company in connection with its acquisition of a third party logistics provider
- Advised a Dallas-based investment firm in its $1.3 billion business combination with a special purpose acquisition entity
- Represented a private wealth management business in a $100 million sale to a public wealth management firm
- Advised an oil and gas services business in a $200 million recapitalization and sale to a private equity fund
- Advised a private waste collection company in a $150 million recapitalization and sale to a private equity fund
- Advised a foreign company on a $300 million acquisition of a U.S. retail fuel station and travel center business
- Advised a $1 billion oil and gas company in the corporate division of upstream and midstream businesses in a tax-free spin-off
- Advised a residential construction supplies and home furnishings business in the corporate separation of business segments in a tax-free spin-off
- Structured and negotiated a private equity fund portfolio company's $1 billion sale of a midstream oil and gas business to a master limited partnership (MLP)
- Advised an industry-leading hydraulic fracking company on tax-efficient structure for initial public stock and debt offerings and the ultimate sale of the company for $3.5 billion
- Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition of a leading provider of test and evaluation services, total life cycle acquisition support, medical and public health preparedness, and science and technology research and development to government customers
- Advised an energy infrastructure company on an equity commitment by a Houston-based private equity firm
- Represented a private equity firm in its substantial equity investments in two information technology (IT) and cybersecurity leaders that specialize in securing the nation's defense industrial base (DIB)
- Represented a San Francisco-based private equity firm on its initial investment in a next generation financial services firm specializing in innovative investment, wealth advisory and credit solutions for families, endowments, foundations and advisors serving accredited investors
- Advised a fund sponsor in the formation of a $650 million real estate fund
- Advised a fund sponsor in the formation of a $1 billion upstream oil and gas fund
- Advised a fund sponsor in the formation of a $500 million midstream oil and gas fund
- Advised a fund sponsor in the formation of a $200 million oil and gas minerals fund
- Advised a fund sponsor in the formation of a $250 million private debt fund
- Advised a family office in structuring and negotiating multiple private equity fund investments
- Advised a tax-exempt private foundation in structuring and negotiating multiple private equity fund investments
- Advised a multinational chemical company that operates in a variety of industries on the acquisition of a major tranche of an energy company's oil and gas assets in the Eagle Ford shale in south Texas for $1.4 billion
- Represented a privately held oil and natural gas company in its agreement to sell certain non-operated interests in the Delaware Basin to another gas company
- Advised a private oil and gas company in structuring a $150 million sale of working interests to qualify as a Section 1031 like-kind exchange
- Advised private equity fund portfolio companies in the tax partnership structure of farmout and drillco transactions, as well as other wellbore interest acquisitions
Credentials
Education
- University of Florida Levin College of Law, LL.M.
- University of Oklahoma College of Law, J.D.
- Oklahoma Baptist University, B.P.A., cum laude
Bar Admissions/Licenses
- Texas
Memberships
- State Bar of Texas, Tax Section, Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Chair, 2013-2014; Vice Chair, 2011-2012
- Watermark Community Development Corporation, Board of Directors, 2018-2021
- Bryan's House, Board of Directors, 2013-2014
Honors & Awards
- The Best Lawyers in America guide, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2025
- Best Lawyers in Dallas, D Magazine, Tax: General, 2022-2024
- The Legal 500 USA, Tax: U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious, 2019-2020
- Rising Star, Texas Super Lawyers magazine, Tax, 2013-2015