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Shelley A. Barber
Shelley A. Barber
Partner — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions
Partner — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions

Shelley A. Barber

Shelley A. Barber
New York

The Grace Building
1114 Avenue of the Americas
32nd Floor
New York, New York 10036

Shelley A. Barber

Experience Highlights

  • Bonanza Creek Energy in its business combination with Extraction Oil & Gas to form Civitas Resources and Civitas’ subsequent acquisition of Crestone Peak Resources, creating a $4.5 billion combined company

  • Pioneer Natural Resources Company in its $1.3 billion 144A offering of convertible senior notes with a capped call and its concurrent cash tender offers for existing senior notes

  • CrownRock, L.P. in its $185 million offering of senior notes; its $1 billion offering of senior notes and its $475 million Series A perpetual preferred equity investment from funds managed by Magnetar Capital and EIG Global Energy Partners

  • Underwriters to Pattern Energy Group Inc. in its $352 million initial public offering of common stock; its $351 million public offering of Class A common stock; its $125 million public offering of common stock; its $270 million public offering of common stock; its $215 million public offering of common stock and its $225 million offering of senior notes

  • Underwriters to Pattern Energy Group Inc. in its $350 green bond offering

  • Spartan Energy Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, in its $1.75 billion business combination with Fisker Inc., a developer of eco-friendly electric vehicles

  • Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc., an ESG-focused crypto asset mining company focused on bitcoin, in its $146 million initial public offering of Class A common stock

  • Breitburn Energy Partners LP in its private and public offerings of equity and debt securities and acquisition transactions, including a $1 billion strategic investment by EIG Global Energy Partners, its acquisition of oil and gas assets from NiMin Energy Corp., a Canadian public company, and its $860 million acquisition of upstream and midstream assets in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas from Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation

  • Encana Corporation in its $7.1 billion acquisition of Athlon Energy

  • Forest Oil Corporation in the $195 million initial public offering of common units of Lone Pine Resources, Inc., and the subsequent spin-off of the company

  • Routinely advises publicly traded companies on 1933 Act and 1934 Act compliance, listing exchange requirements, and ESG matters (including corporate governance and board of directors matters)

  • Underwriters to Cactus, Inc., in its $173 million public secondary offering of Class A common stock by certain selling stockholders; its $308 million public secondary offering of Class A common stock by certain selling stockholders; and its $321 million public offering of Class A common stock

  • Underwriters to Unitil Corporation in its $29 million public offering of common stock and its $46 million public offering of common stock

  • Breitburn Energy Partners LP in its private and public offerings of equity and debt securities and acquisition transactions, including a $1 billion strategic investment by EIG Global Energy Partners, its acquisition of oil and gas assets from NiMin Energy Corp., a Canadian public company, and its $860 million acquisition of upstream and midstream assets in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas from Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation

  • DIRTT Environmental Solutions Ltd. In its dual listing on The Nasdaq Global Select Market and the Toronto Stock Exchange

  • CrownRock, L.P. in its $185 million offering of senior notes; its $1 billion offering of senior notes and its $475 million Series A perpetual preferred equity investment from funds managed by Magnetar Capital and EIG Global Energy Partners

  • Pioneer Natural Resources Company in its $1.3 billion 144A offering of convertible senior notes with a capped call and its concurrent cash tender offers for existing senior notes

  • Pioneer Natural Resources Company in its $1.1 billion public investment grade offering of senior notes

  • Bonanza Creek Energy in its business combination with Extraction Oil & Gas to form Civitas Resources and Civitas’ subsequent acquisition of Crestone Peak Resources, creating a $4.5 billion combined company

  • Bonanza Creek Energy in a merger to acquire HighPoint Resources Corporation that was valued at approximately $376 million, and included a registered exchange offer, consent solicitation, and simultaneous registered solicitation of a prepackaged plan of reorganization under chapter 11, which was followed by two subsequent out-of-court mergers and acquisitions by the combined company, resulting in a company with total expected enterprise value of $4.5 billion

  • Cloud Peak Energy in the sale of substantially all their operating assets to an affiliate of the Navajo Nation as part of its chapter 11 cases involving approximately $350 million in funded debt and over $750 million in total liabilities

Credentials

  • University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 1990 (awarded the Wilson W. Herndon Memorial Award in Antitrust Law)
  • University of Virginia, B.A., History, 1986
  • Selected to the 500 Leading Energy Lawyers, Lawdragon, 2023 and 2024
  • Member: American Bar Association; New York State Bar Association; State Bar of Texas; Houston Bar Association
  • New York
  • Texas
  • “Retail Preferred Offerings Expand Outside of the Traditional E&P MLP Space,” V&E MLP Update E-communication, October 12, 2015 (co-author)
  • “SEC Issues Final Rules Regarding Mine Safety Disclosure Requirements Under the Dodd-Frank Act,” V&E Financial Reform Update E-communication, January 11, 2012 (co-author)
  • “Expanded Disclosure Requirements for Oil, Gas, and Mining Companies,” V&E Financial Reform Update E-communication, August 19, 2010 (co-author)