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Zach A. Rider
Zach A. Rider
Counsel — Finance
Counsel — Finance

Zach A. Rider

Zach A. Rider
Houston

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

start quote symbolWhat I enjoy most about my practice is the opportunity to help clients that are on the leading edge of the most sophisticated financing transactions in the market. I work closely with these clients to navigate novel issues and provide innovative solutions that lead to successful deal closings.end quote symbol
Zach A. Rider

Experience Highlights

  • Breakwall Capital Management LLC in a $250 million senior secured, multi-draw term loan to a privately sponsored upstream oil and gas company

  • Apollo in a $250 million senior secured term loan B to NGL Energy Partners

  • HPS Investment Partners in a $250 million secured holdco delayed draw term loan to a Permian-focused upstream E&P company

  • Angelo Gordon & Co. in a $140 million senior secured term loan to an upstream E&P company

  • Anadarko Petroleum on behalf of its master limited partnership Western Midstream in a $3 billion loan from Barclays Bank PLC

  • Midland-Petro D.C. Partners in a joint venture with Andros Capital Partners, in which Andros’ affiliate Andros Permian will fund approximately $150 million for the development of oil and gas properties in the highly productive Spraberry and Wolfcamp formations in Midland County, Texas

  • Advising an infrastructure fund in the multi-billion dollar term loan B acquisition financing of a stake in a large, diversified pipeline business in the United States

  • MN8 Energy, a leading renewable energy and battery storage owner-operator in the US, in its agreement with Mercedes-Benz to deliver an open network of branded high-power charging stations in North America

  • Private upstream E&P company in the $215 million distressed sale of substantially all of their assets in Sublette County, Wyoming (Pinedale Field) to a strategic buyer with the consent of the company’s lenders, who cancelled all debt in excess of the purchase price in connection with the out-of-court transaction

  • Riverstone Credit Partners as administrative agent and lender on behalf of a syndicate of lenders under a $410 million term loan facility in the restructuring of MTE Holdings and its subsequent chapter 11 cases and related litigation

  • Wells Fargo Bank as Administrative Agent, DIP Agent, and Exit Facility Agent in Oasis Petroleum’s restructuring and prepackaged chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, including a $450 million DIP financing and $575 million exit financing

  • Lilis Energy in an in-court sale process in which substantially all of the company’s operating assets were sold to Ameredev Texas LLC as part of its chapter 11 cases involving approximately $400 million in total liabilities

  • Carbo Ceramics in an in-court restructuring involving a debt-for-equity exchange with the company’s prepetition and DIP lenders

  • Nisource, Inc. in three credit facilities with an aggregate of $3.5 billion

  • Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in two concurrently negotiated revolving credit facilities to Exterran Energy Solutions, LP and Archrock Services, LP, representing $1.275 billion in the aggregate, in connection with the public spin-off of the international operations of Exterran Holdings 

  • TPG Capital in its $1.8 billion acquisition of natural gas properties in Wyoming’s Jonah field from Encana Corporation

  • Blue Racer Midstream, LLC, a joint venture between Caiman Energy II, LLC and Dominion Resources, in a $800 million credit facility

  • Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in a $350 million revolving credit facility to Blueknight Energy Partners

  • RockPile Energy Services, LLC in a $150 million secured revolving credit facility

  • Tapstone Energy, LLC in a $250 million secured reserve-based credit facility in connection with the acquisition of oil and gas properties from Shell

  • Stellus Capital Management in multiple preferred equity and structured debt investments in oil and gas producers

Credentials

  • University of Texas at Austin, J.D. with honors, 2012
  • The George Washington University, B.A., Philosophy and History cum laude, 2007
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Banking and Finance Law (Houston), 2025
  • Texas