BRAD MITCHELL, MA, JD, Cypress, TX 2012 - presentCommercial, Financial & Real Estate TransactionsCommercial consulting, corporate, financial and real estate transactions. Practice includes: acquisitions, divestitures, general commercial transactions, real estate, land use regulation, intellectual property, environmental, family law, energy, estate planning, and probate. Provide due diligence and analysis of P&L, title, regulations, CCRs, environmental, ancillary real estate and finance documents, risk management, and insurance coverage analysis. Negotiate resolutions to civil disputes, corporate governance conflicts, landlord-tenant, POA-owner, and builder-contractor issues. Meanwhile, supporting spouse, in MITCHELL GROUP commercial and residential realty, as she has become a top commercial and luxury producer.

Created part-time business selling our trademarked goods direct to consumers and to specialty shops. Oceanautics promotes a mindful, ocean-centric, lifestyle, with apparel, accessories, Reach Breathe Glide SUP instruction, and Reach Breathe Flow yoga instruction. Co-Created U.S. Trademark Registration Nos. 6,130,822; 6,130,883; 6,136,508; 5,248,858; and application serial nos. 87,934,900; 87,934,810; 87,934,856.

Prospect generator and early exploiter of new technologies. Co-founded Energia Tejas to expand existing oil fields with horizontal drilling. The company focused on field extensions via the application of enhanced recovery technology to productive formations in and near proven oil and gas fields. Mr Mitchell is the leader of Energia Tejas' strategic plan of being an 'early mover' in oil plays. He manages the prudent allocation of capital over the company's prospect to pipeline and divestiture cycles. Brad also heads business development and marketing for Energia Tejas, buying oil prospects and executing divestitures for the company. He is actively engaged in prospect generation, petroleum land work, geology, engineering, marketing, and finance. Mr. Mitchell led the company as an early mover into two large East Texas plays: the Horizontal Woodbine oil trend and the Rodessa oil development. In each case, Energia Tejas was ahead of the competition and assembled thousands of acres of drilling blocks among and adjacent to existing production, then marketed, negotiated and closed an AMI with an industry partner. The Woodbine oil project resulted in a 58,000 acre AMI with Chesapeake Energy in 2010. In 2013, working interest in the Woodbine oil project was divested to Energy & Exploration Partners. The Rodessa oil project was partially divested to O’Brien Energy in a 2012 AMI agreement covering 25,000 acres. As of Q2 2016, this conventional reservoir project is producing 3900 BOE/day (2/3rds oil). During this time, Brad has actively participated in the evaluation of more than a hundred oil and gas ideas and prospects for discoveries and field extension opportunities.

Executed the private equity backed acquisition and rapid expansion of Quality Oil Tools into new markets, new technologies and new services gowing sales by 43% in the first two years. Quality Oil Tools holds API Licenses 6A-0607, 16A-0419, 16C-0054, 16F-0007, ISO-0308, with ISO 9001:2008 & ISO/TS 29001 certification ABS and ASME approved welding. Quality is also a registered engineering firm in Texas, registration number F-15349. Along with this registration Quality offers a wide variety of welding engineering consulting services including welding procedure review, development, and project execution management.Quality is widely known as an OEM and servicer of high-quality pressure control equipment such as gate valves, check valves, and choke and kill manifolds used primarily by contractors and operators worldwide. The company offers a full line of 5,000 through 15,000-psi gate valves and various sizes and pressures of hydraulically operated drilling chokes with both single and dual control consoles. Quality's products and services include: - Automatic, Semiautomatic, Mechanized and Manual Welding of Duplex and High-Alloy Materials - Choke and Kill Manifolds, Mud Manifolds, Standpipe Manifolds - Chokes, Gate Valves, Ball Valves- Subsea Valves and Failsafe Actuators - Cladding and Overlay - Drilling Spools - Diverter Systems - Drilling Risers - Welding Engineering, Welding Procedure Qualification Quality has an executive office in Sugar Land, Texas, a manufacturing plant in Jennings, Louisiana and a waterfront facility in New Iberia, Louisiana. Quality also has a presence in the Middle East in Hamriyah Free Zone, Sharjah, U.A.E., Brazil, Australia, and The Republic of Singapore.

Conceived and executed a strategy to leverage the company’s excellent technical reputation for revenue and earnings growth. Expanded the Enterprise from $7 MM $38 MM. Employed working capital for high-yield, low risk opportunities. Acute was acquired by Oil States, a publicly-traded energy services company. Created earnings growth through expansion of existing services, entry into transmission infrastructure fabrication, and into emerging, efficient technologies Negotiated advance of working capital from customer for equipment needed to put Acute into deepwater pipeline business and execute their work scope. Developed strategic relationship with major coating contractor to gain entry into high production welding of double joints for land-based pipelines. Built mixture of key personnel and contractor services to limit fixed costs between projects. Built accounting department infrastructure and transitioned the company from ‘hybrid-cash’ to GAAP accrual method of accounting. Retained principal responsibility for review financial reports, bank, board and investor presentations. Resolved daily operational and technical issues while maintaining focus on strategic objectives. Worked with senior engineers and technicians to invigorate a culture of safety, quality excellence, and superior customer and employee satisfaction. Personally recruited welding engineers (4 year degree or higher) and welding technicians (2 year degree) from the classes of 2007 and 2008 to build the business. Grew from 32 employees in 2006 (7 engineers and 15 welding technicians) to 136 employees in 2008 (23 engineers and 86 welding technicians).Acute is a small but globally recognized leader in welding engineering, project management, and in the execution of specialty and critical path welding applications with operations in Houston and Brazil.

Business practice included high-tech critical path engineering, renewable fuels, recycled building products, energy, oilfield services, manufacturing, and transportation. General business issues included office and industrial real estate, finance, directors’ and officers’ liability, employment practices, insurance and a variety of commercial and financial transactions. Negotiated the structure of equity, senior and subordinated debt. Lead clients through start-ups, roll-ups, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Counsel for clients in commercial and residential real estate development, CC&Rs, construction, interpretation, drafting, and guidance regarding CCRs, regulatory compliance, joint ventures, supplier agreements, corporate governance, and intellectual property. Drafted and negotiated leases, contracts, master service agreements, EPC contract, equipment lease and purchases, charters, and financial instruments. Real estate practice served national builders and developers, leasing and subleasing, drafting and negotiating sophisticated transaction documents for industrial, commercial, retail and residential leasing. Real estate development included acquisition, planning, CCRs for mixed use development, re-development, and general real estate acquisitions, disposition, finance and other holdings management. Wrote insurance coverage provisions and exclusions, issued insurance coverage opinions, and litigated insurance coverage disputes. Investigated, managed, litigated and settled environmental liability, property damage and economic loss cases brought directly against insurers. Lead role in more than two-dozen reported federal and state cases in areas focused on real estate, directors and officers’ liability, admiralty and maritime law, products liability, and employment practices. Joined the firm as a paralegal, worked through law school, and became partner in the firm.

Engaged in marketing, credit analyst, customer service, restructuring and workouts.