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PJ Solomon - Debt Advisory and Restructuring Expertise

6/4/2018

Based in Oklahoma City, Duke Ligon is the senior vice president of Mekusukey Oil Company, a private mineral investment firm. Outside of his work in Oklahoma City, Duke Ligon serves as senior advisor to Peter J. Solomon Company, a Houston-based energy practice.

Among the earliest boutique investment banking firms to offer debt advisory and restructuring services, PJ Solomon advises chief executive officers, boards of directors, and other senior management of public and private companies. With special skills in transaction structuring, business and security valuation analysis, and multiparty negotiations, the firm’s advisors have led several of the largest restructuring transactions over the past two decades.

Through a hands-on, integrated approach, PJ Solomon develops customized solutions to address clients’ immediate financial challenges as well as their longer-term objectives. The firm prioritizes its relationships with clients, such that it is not swayed by product or market biases or conflicts of interest.

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Attorney and businessman Duke Ligon serves as president and CEO of the company he established more than 40 years ago, Mekusukey Oil Company, LLC. The company is among the nation's largest privately held businesses focused on acquiring and managing perpetual mineral resources; it conducts business in Oklahoma and more than 20 other states. Mekusukey maintains offices in Wewoka and in Oklahoma City. Duke Ligon and his staff oversee operations covering approximately 80,000 net mineral acres.

Since 2008, Mr. Ligon has worked with Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P., as chairman of the board and independent director. Blueknight offers midstream services to others throughout its industry. Among his other affiliated companies is PostRock Energy Corporation in Oklahoma City. He serves as chairman of the board for this natural gas production company that focuses on the Cherokee Basin region, which extends into southeast Kansas.

Among his other board of directors positions, Mr. Ligon works with Heritage Trust Company, a private trust bank whose Texas and Oklahoma offices concentrate on energy commodity management, and with Denver, Colorado-headquartered Emerald Oil, Inc.

From 1997 to 2007, moreover, he served Devon Energy Corporation as general counsel and senior vice president. He currently works with the University of Texas’ Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law & Business as co-chairman of its executive council.

PJ Solomon - Debt Advisory and Restructuring Expertise

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