Michael Marek
Mike advises private equity firms, other financial sponsors, portfolio companies and a variety of public and private businesses in connection with a wide range of strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts and joint ventures. Mike’s work spans a variety of industries, with a particular focus on the energy, services and infrastructure sectors, including traditional hydrocarbon and energy transition segments.
Experience Highlights
SCF Partners in its investment in Westbrook Sales and Distributing Corporation, a globally-integrated, industry-leading domestic manufacturer of pipe fitting equipment and flanges
The Blackstone Group in its leveraged buyout of a majority investment in Geosyntec Consultants, Inc., an environmental engineering and design consulting firm
EnCap Investments as lead investor in the $1.7 billion line of equity investments in Double Eagle Energy Holdings IV, LLC and Tumbleweed Royalty IV, LLC
SCF Partners in its investment partnership with T.D. Williamson, a global leader in intervention and isolation, inspection, and pigging products and services
FloWorks Holdings, LLC, a Clearlake Capital Group portfolio company, in its acquisition of Transom SemiTorr Holdings Corp., a specialty fluid handling systems and components distributor
Harvest Midstream in the formation of MaderaGas I LLC, an RNG-focused joint venture with NOVUS Wood Group
The Sinclair Companies in the combination of Sinclair Oil’s refining, renewable diesel and logistics assets with those of HollyFrontier Corporation and Holly Energy Partners, L.P.
EnCap Investments in its $300 million equity commitment to Sabalo Energy II
Kayne Anderson in its $500 million line of equity commitment to Black Knight Energy, a private energy company formed to pursue the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas assets across the lower 48
Blackstone in its acquisition of Sabre Industries from The Jordan Company
White Deer Energy and AXIOS Industrial Group, a portfolio company of White Deer Energy, in the merger between AXIOS and A&L Industrial Services, a portfolio company of Hastings Equity Partners
Management of Ascentium Capital, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus and the largest independent equipment finance lender in the United States, in its sale to Regions Bank
Parsley Energy in its $4.5 billion sale to Pioneer Natural Resources Company
Gravity Oilfield Services, a Clearlake Capital portfolio company, in its acquisition of On Point Oilfield Holdings, a White Deer Energy portfolio company, creating the largest commercial produced water disposal company by injection volumes in the Midland Basin
SCF Partners in its investment in Hi-Tech Industrial Services, provider of integrated specialty services to the downstream energy, infrastructure and industrial markets
Noble Midstream Partners in a $200 million preferred equity commitment from Global Infrastructure Partners to fund capital contributions to, Dos Rios Crude Intermediate, a subsidiary holding Noble Midstream’s 30% equity interest in the EPIC Crude Pipeline
Greenfield Midstream in a $300 million line of equity commitment to the company, focused on midstream infrastructure across North America, from EnCap Flatrock Midstream
Chisholm Energy Holdings in a $500 million line of equity commitment to the company, focused on oil and gas assets in the northern Delaware Basin, from Warburg Pincus
Flywheel Bakken, formerly Valorem Energy, in its sale of non-operated assets to Northern Oil and Gas
Deep Gulf Energy Companies, a deepwater oil and gas exploration and development business operating in the Gulf of Mexico and a portfolio company of First Reserve, in its $1.225 billion sale to Kosmos Energy
Blackstone in its $1.57 billion acquisition of an interest in the Rover pipeline project from a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners
Credentials
- The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2014 (Editor-in-Chief, Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, & Energy Law, 2013-2014)
- The University of Texas McCombs School of Business, MBA with concentration in Energy Finance, 2014 (Sord Scholar Award and Dean’s Award Winner)
- Stanford University, B.A., International Relations, 2009
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” (Houston): Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, 2021–2024; Mergers & Acquisitions Law, 2021–2024; Corporate Law, 2023 and 2024
- Member: Texas Energy Law Association
- Member: University of Texas Friar Society
- Texas
- Spanish (proficient)
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- “Mineral Company Structures,” World Oilman’s Mineral & Royalty Conference, April 18, 2022 (speaker)
- “A Future for Reserve-Based Lending in Emerging Markets?,” 9 Tex. J. Oil Gas & Energy L., 2014 (co-author)