Hailing from Oklahoma City, Duke Ligon serves as senior vice president of Mekusukey Oil Company, a private mineral investment firm. Outside of his business, Duke Ligon advises the Peter J. Solomon Company, a Houston-based energy practice.When large businesses confront financial decisions involving a potential conflict of interest, the best route often can be appointing a special committee made up of independent advisors and external financial experts without a stake in the transaction. The Peter J. Solomon Company provides this professional service to its clients to ensure they have an objective financial advisor available to them who is free of conflicts.Known as the firm’s Special Committee & Fairness Opinion Practice, this branch of Peter J. Solomon has advised companies on complex, high-stakes deals such as stock-for-stock mergers, joint ventures, cross-border acquisitions, leveraged recapitalizations, and more. The firm guarantees that it has no business or financial conflicts related to securities research, trading, or ownership.
A respected executive with nearly five decades of experience in the energy sector, Duke Ligon serves as the principal owner and manager of Mekusukey Oil Company in Oklahoma City. Recently, the Peter J. Solomon Company (PJSC) appointed Duke Ligon as a senior advisor to its Energy Advisory Group in Houston, which has enabled the company to expand into the energy sector. An investment banking advisory firm, PJSC offers strategic advisory services to senior managers, boards of directors, and chief executive officers. Over the course of almost 30 years, the company has been providing a broad array of advisory services such as restructuring, capital markets solutions, acquisitions, and mergers. Seeking to provide strategic solutions that lead to shareholder value over the long term, the company has advised clients in numerous transactions. PJSC has represented a variety of clients ranging from small, rapidly growing firms to large multinational organizations in sectors such as energy, real estate, technology, and retail.For the full press release, please visit http://www.pjsc.com/news-and-events/duke-r-ligon-former-devon-energy-executive-joins-peter-j-solomon-company.
