Shelton M. Vaughan, P.C.

Shelton M. Vaughan practices corporate law with a focus on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance transactions and corporate governance. He serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Energy industry group. Mr. Vaughan represents large public companies, middle-market companies and startups in a variety of industries. His experience includes numerous capital markets transactions, including IPOs and public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, representing issuers and underwriters; mergers and acquisitions, representing targets and acquirers in both public and private transactions; extensive securities law compliance and counseling and corporate governance counseling; venture capital and private equity transactions; bank financings, representing both borrowers and lenders; advising special committees;  and restructuring transactions and counseling.

In 2018, he was named a BTI Client Service All-Star Attorney.

Mr. Vaughan is a 1994 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, where he was editor of the Texas Law Review, articles and notes editor of the Texas International Law Journal and national editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Mr. Vaughan also holds a Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was a member of the Harvard Public Policy Review. He is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Houston.