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David W. Wicklund
David W. Wicklund
Partner — Finance
Partner — Finance

David W. Wicklund

David W. Wicklund
New York

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

start quote symbolI enjoy working with really smart and interesting clients, particularly private equity firms, and helping them solve their most difficult financing problems. Over the years, I’ve been fortunate to work closely with my clients and gain an insider’s view into their businesses and their industries.end quote symbol
David W. Wicklund

Experience Highlights

  • Maxar Technologies Ltd. (f/k/a MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.), a space technologies company, in connection with financing its acquisition of Digital Globe, Inc., the global leader in Earth imagery, for $3.6 billion

  • AltaGas, Ltd. in connection with financing its acquisition of WGL Holdings, Inc. for $6.4 billion in cash

  • TPG Growth and The Rise Fund in connection with financing their acquisition of CLEAResult

  • TPG Pace Energy Holdings Corp. in connection with financing its acquisition of oil and gas assets within EnerVest’s South Texas Division for approximately $2.66 billion in cash and stock

  • Blackstone in connection with financing its acquisition of EagleClaw Midstream Ventures for approximately $2 billion

  • Blackstone in connection with financing its acquisition of a 49.9% interest in ET Rover Pipeline for approximately $1.57 billion in cash

  • Targa Resources Partners and Targa Resources Corp. in the $7.7 billion acquisition of Atlas Pipeline Partners and Atlas Energy

  • Nexeo Solutions, a chemicals and plastics distributor and TPG Capital portfolio company, in its $1.575 billion merger with WL Ross Holdings Corp.

  • NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. (NRF) in connection with the financing aspects of a merger involving NRF, NorthStar Asset Management Group and Colony Capital, Inc. 

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

  • Energy XXI in its $2.3 billion acquisition of EPL Oil & Gas Inc., creating the largest publicly traded independent oil and gas producer on the Gulf of Mexico Shelf

  • Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC in a $400 million unsecured notes offering

  • Jonah Energy LLC in a $600 million unsecured notes offering

  • Underwriters to CONSOL Mining Corporation in a $300 million secured notes offering

  • Underwriters to Bristow Group Inc. in a $350 million secured notes offering 

  • CVR Partners, LP in a $645 million senior secured notes offering

  • SandRidge Energy, Inc. in its $1.25 billion offering of senior secured notes

  • Goodrich Petroleum Corporation in a $100 million senior secured notes offering

  • Goodrich Petroleum Corporation in an up-tiering exchange transaction

  • Underwriters to Baytex Energy Corp. in its $1.2 billion offering of senior notes

  • Breitburn Energy Partners LP in a private placement of $650 million of 9.25% senior secured second lien notes

  • Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc. in its $1.5 billion offering of senior secured notes

Credentials

  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2003
  • Williams College, B.A., 2000
  • Legal 500 U.S., Finance: Private Equity Buyouts, 2016; Finance: Project Finance, 2018–2022; Finance: Commercial Lending, 2019–2022 and 2024; Finance: Capital Markets High Yield Debt Offerings, 2021
  • Selected to New York Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2014, 2016–2018
  • Legal 500 U.S., Finance: Commercial Lending, 2020 and 2021; Finance: Project Finance, 2020
  • IFLR1000, 2020–2023
  • New York
  • “High Yield Bonds in the Energy Industry,” V&E Houston Office, April 10, 2019 (speaker)
  • “Oil & Gas Agreements: Purchase and Sale Agreements,” Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 12, 2016