Leadership
Michael W. Mitchell, CEO/Senior Managing Director
Mr. Mitchell formed Mitchell Energy Advisors in April 2003. Since forming MEA, Mr. Mitchell has led the origination in, structuring and completion of M&A, recapitalization and financial advisory engagements with an aggregate value of approximately $6 billion. He has 35 years of extensive oil and gas finance experience.
Prior to forming MEA, Mr. Mitchell served as Managing Director and Dallas office head of the Energy Investment Banking Group for Friedman Billings Ramsey (“FBR”). During his tenure at FBR, Mr. Mitchell completed sell side and buy side M&A assignments with an aggregate transaction value exceeding $900 million. He was formerly President and Managing Director of EnCap Energy Advisors, LLC, (“EnCap Advisors”) a wholly-owned subsidiary of El Paso Corp., specializing in providing comprehensive corporate finance advisory services to the energy industry with a focus on the E&P sector. Prior to EnCap Advisors, Mr. Mitchell was Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Bank One Corp.’s North American Independents Group, which focused on the E&P sector of the oil and gas industry. Mr. Mitchell had previously served as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Syndications and Private Placements for the Southern Region of Bank One Capital Markets, Inc. Mr. Mitchell joined MBank Dallas (formerly Mercantile National Bank of Dallas) in 1984. Bank One Corp. ultimately acquired MBank Dallas in 1989 and subsequently merged with JP Morgan Chase.
He is a holder of the Series 7, Series 24, Series 28, Series 79 and Series 99 securities registrations.Mr. Mitchell received his BBA from the University of Texas at Austin with dual majors in Finance and Petroleum Land Management. He is also a graduate of Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University. Mr. Mitchell is actively involved in oil and gas industry groups including the Dallas Petroleum Club where he is Chairman of the Advisory Board and a past President, and the Independent Petroleum Association of America where he previously served as an Advisory Board member and as a member of the Capital Markets Committee. He is also a member of TIPRO and the Board of Directors of the Dallas Wildcat Committee. In addition, he served on the Board of Directors of ES Xplore, LLC, a privately-held company that has developed electro-seismic technology that directly detects producible hydrocarbons from oil & gas reservoirs.