Bernard F ClarkBernard F. (Buddy) Clark, Jr. grew up in Houston, Texas, well aware of the needs producers face for capital. As chief financial officer for Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. for 45 years, his father was often flying to New York and Chicago to meet ith commercial and investment bankers for funds to finance Mitchell Energy's constant need of capital. Following graduation from University of Texas Law School in 1982, Clark joined the established Houston oil and gas firm of Butler & Binion LLP as a member of its energy-finance group, working with producers and bankers, principally Allied Bank of Texas and its successors, First Interstate and Wells Fargo, as well as working in the late 1980s with the FSLIC in its takeover of Dallas-based savings and loan institutions and as special counsel to the Emergency Oil and Gas Guaranteed Loan Board in 1999-2000. In 1999, he joined the Houston office of national law firm Haynes and Boone LLP where he chairs the firm's energy practice. Read More Read Less