Drew N. Bagot

(214) 683-6335

Drew Bagot is the shareholder of Drew N. Bagot, P.C., established by Drew after 37 years of large law firm practice and experience advising businesses in virtually all aspects of their day-to-day operations and business transactions. These include business formation and organization, choice of entity, mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate finance, venture capital and private equity, corporate governance and counseling, technology transactions, employment and agency agreements and restrictive covenants, litigation management and litigation avoidance.

Drew’s clients have included companies in virtually every major industry and have ranged in size from start-ups to large, international corporations with areas of high practice concentrations in financial institutions, insurance and health care-related businesses.

His experience includes corporate, securities, administrative, regulatory, legislative and litigation, complex litigation management, business governance and growth strategies, business acquisitions, mergers, asset purchases, stock purchases, corporate reorganizations and restructurings, strategic alliances and joint ventures, exchange transactions, financial and lending transactions, private equity and public finance matters and real estate acquisition and leasing transactions. He has also acted as outside general counsel to many companies.

He has represented financial institutions, lenders and borrowers with regard to lending, real estate finance and mortgage lending, loan documentation and restructuring, and workout and foreclosure matters with respect to commercial and residential real estate projects. Drew has been a shareholder and director of three banks, bank holding companies.

Drew has extensive experience in all aspects of the insurance industry, insurance company formation, acquisition, state admission and licensing matters, compliance, market conduct issues, administrative and regulatory hearings and insurance holding company issues. He has represented insurance-related entities in all aspects of acquisition, expansion, agents and brokers and has been involved in many reinsurance matters, treaty restructuring and commutation as well as company supervisions, rehabilitations, receiverships, wind downs, liquidations and run-offs. He has represented reinsurance and insurance companies, brokers, surplus lines brokers, agents and intermediaries, producers, third party administrators, professional employer organizations and claims adjusters. Drew has been an officer, director and shareholder of two property and casualty insurance companies and a principal in a risk management company dealing in offshore captive formation, management and reinsurance. He was an underwriting member of Lloyd's London for 12 years. As a registered lobbyist in Texas, he represented several property and casualty insurance associations before the Texas Legislature. As well, he was a special deputy receiver of insurance companies for the Texas Department of Insurance.

In the health care field, Drew has represented physicians, hospitals, health insurers, TPAs, and other health care industry entities in various transactional, finance, real estate, insurance regulation, administrative, compliance and regulatory matters. These include joint ventures among providers and with physicians, mergers, acquisitions and sales of practice groups, insurance, and formations of practice management and physician associations. He has assisted with real estate acquisitions, leasing and development of health care projects, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law compliance and HIPAA.

Drew has had the pleasure of counseling individuals on their personal and legal financial planning, real estate, trust, employment and business succession planning. He has acted as trustee of several personal trusts.

Drew has been engaged as an expert witness on issues related to corporate, financial, financial institutions, lending, insurance, health care matters and related litigation and administrative hearings. He has assisted clients with commercial and complex litigation class action suits, ERISA litigation, workers’ compensation, PEO, technology, intellectual property matters and non-competition covenants. Drew has also worked as a Certified Insurance Arbitrator.

Helping numerous nonprofit organizations, Drew has sat on boards and in leadership positions for the Rotary Club of Park Cities, St. Mark’s School of Texas, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He was chairman of the board of trustees of Timberlawn Psychiatric Research Foundation and president and chairman of the board of TACA, a major umbrella funding organization for the arts in Dallas.

Education

J.D., Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University, 1973
B.B.A, (Finance and Real Estate), Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University, 1970
Graduate work, Southwest Graduate School of Banking, Southern Methodist University, 1970

Admissions

State Bar of Texas, 1973
U.S. Supreme Court, 1976
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 2001
U.S. Tax Court, 1980
U. S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, 1980
U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, 2006

Memberships & Affiliations

Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
Federation of Regulatory Counsel (Insurance)
State Bar of Texas (Insurance, Business, Health Care and Litigation Sections)
Dallas Bar Association (Tort and Insurance, Health Care and Litigation Sections)
LLoyd's London, Underwriting Member, 1986-1998
The Federalist Society
Rotary Club of Park Cities
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
Cessna Pilots Association
Commemorative Airforce, Colonel, Life Member
Masonic Blue Lodge
Charlie Russell Riders