Len Musgrove has been a partner with Bellinger & DeWolf LLP since 1997, having joined the Firm shortly after its inception. In addition to being an attorney with over 25 years of experience, Len is a certified public accountant.  He currently serves as the Managing Partner of the Firm as well as the head of Bellinger & DeWolf’s corporate and tax practice.  Len represents many national and regional emerging and growth companies, including multiple companies included and recognized among the prestigious Dallas 100, Celebration of Enterprise and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

Len has represented numerous publicly-traded and privately-held corporations, limited partnerships, general partnerships, limited liability companies and other entities, including real estate developers, high-tech businesses, manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors, oil and gas operators and mineral interest owners, agricultural co-ops, professional entities, non-profit organizations and healthcare providers. He has extensive expertise in a variety of transactional areas, including: complex mergers and acquisitions of publicly-traded and privately-held entities; structuring business entities; federal and state business taxation planning; income, complex estate and gift tax planning; challenges of federal and state income, sales and franchise tax assessments; private placement offerings for energy, real estate, retail and manufacturing-based clients; tax-free reorganizations of privately-held entities; acquisitions and sales of oil and gas producing properties and gathering systems; commercial real estate properties and multi-family residential properties; and stock and asset purchases and sales of going concerns by privately-held and publicly-held entities, both from the buyer and seller’s perspective.

In the early 1980s, Len worked for two years as a CPA as an oil and gas audit specialist in the Dallas office of Ernst & Whinney, now Ernst & Young, L.L.P.  Following law school, he moved to Midland, Texas, where he worked as an oil and gas securities lawyer with Lynch, Chappell, Allday and Alsup for three years.  In 1989, Len returned to Dallas and joined Arter, Hadden & Witts (later Arter & Hadden), where he was focused on business and tax transactions such as banking and tax planning.  It is there that he met the founders of Bellinger & DeWolf LLP., Glen Bellinger, Steve DeWolf and Barbara Emerson, with whom he continues to practice today.

• Served as lead counsel for multiple complex merger and acquisition transactions both on the buyer and the seller side.
• Served as lead counsel on equity sale of Plano-based high-tech distributor that exceeded $27 million.
• Served as corporate counsel for a Plano-based multi-national aerospace prime contractor.
• Served as corporate counsel and managed sale of stock of a Dallas-based computer gaming company to Microsoft, valued at approximately $20 million.
• Served as corporate general counsel in the restructuring of a $60 million Oklahoma based plastics manufacturer.
• Assisted a Dallas area printing company in acquiring entities in Florida and Missouri with an aggregate value of $12 million, serving as external general counsel.
• Represented multiple private offering issuers in multiple industries.
• Represented a Dallas-Fort Worth area ATM provider in acquiring an East Coast competitor and its assets with a value of approximately $7 million.

• Supreme Court of Texas, 1988
• Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1986
• Supreme Court of Missouri, 2006

• Bachelor of Business Administration Degree, Southern Methodist University, 1981
• JD, University of Oklahoma, 1986

• State Bar of Texas, 1988
• Oklahoma Bar Association, 1986
• Missouri State Bar, 2006
• Certified Public Accountant

• Frequent speaker on topics such as overhauling the Texas franchise tax for business.
• Commentator for KVIL Radio in Dallas on estate planning topics.
• Frequent speaker on tax and estate planning matters.
• Frequent speaker on business succession issues

• The New Conservatory of Dallas - Chairman of the Board of Directors (Current).
• Dallas Summer Musicals Guild - Board Member (Current).
• Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas - Former Chairman, Heartbeat
• Heartbeat 5K Race Director and Board Member (Past)
• Big Brothers and Sisters of Midland - Former President and Board Member (Past)
• Member, St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church

My two daughters; Listening to and playing “rock and roll” music (keyboards); Running; Coaching Basketball