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Megan James
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Trammell Crow Center
2001 Ross Avenue
Suite 3900
Dallas, Texas 75201
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Megan James is a tax lawyer who focuses her practice on complex domestic and cross-border transactions.
Megan advises public and private companies, private equity funds and their portfolio companies, governmental entities and high-net-worth individuals on a wide range of transactions, including domestic and off-shore fund formations and investment partnerships, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) transactions.
Megan has particular experience advising on the formation and implementation of natural resource funds and energy transition funds. She also counsels private equity funds on day-to-day tax issues.
Experience Highlights
Carlyle in its $350 million investment in Aspen Power Partners, a distributed generation platform with the mission of accelerating decarbonization
REV Renewables, Inc. in its initial public offering of common stock (In Registration)
RSP Permian in its $9.5 billion sale to Concho Resources, creating the largest unconventional shale producer in the Permian Basin
EVgo Services, a portfolio company of LS Power and an electric vehicle public fast charging network, in its $2.6 billion business combination with Climate Change Crisis Real Impact I Acquisition Corporation, a SPAC
EnCap Investments in the formation of EnCap Energy Transition Fund I with total commitments of approximately $1.2 billion
Caprock Midstream Holdings in its $950 million sale to EagleClaw Midstream
Live Oak Acquisition Corp. II, a SPAC, in its $1.4 billion business combination with Navitas Semiconductor, the industry leader in Gallium nitride power ICs
Goodrich Petroleum Corporation in its $480 million sale to Paloma Partners, an EnCap affiliate, in an all cash tender offer
HighPeak Energy Partners, LP, an oil and gas exploration and production company, and its affiliates in a $900 million business combination with Pure Acquisition Corp.
First Reserve Sustainable Growth Corp., a SPAC, in its $222 million initial public offering of units
Antero Resources Corporation in a $402 million structured overriding royalty interest transaction with an affiliate of Sixth Street
FleetPride, a TPG portfolio company and the industry’s largest distributor of heavy duty truck and trailer parts, in its sale to American Securities
Brigham Exploration Company in the formation of BEXP II, LP, a $322 million fund focused on natural resource investments, including a net profits interest structure for undeveloped acreage
Magnetar Capital in the formation of MTP Climate Infrastructure Fund I
Langford Energy Partners in the formation of a fund focused on natural resource investments
L2 Point in the formation of a fund focused on investments in single-family residential real estate
Buckthorn Partners, a London-based private equity firm, in its investment in U.S.-based Mohawk Energy, an oilfield services company
Public pension and state funds in the State of Texas in multiple investments in, and co-investments with, private equity and hedge funds
Clovis Point Capital in a majority investment in ZynBit.com and merger of ZynBit with Cirruspath, another Clovis Point portfolio company, to create a customer acquisition platform
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
Clovis Point Capital in its equity investment in NinjaCat, a digital marketing and software services company
Taurus Industrial Group, a portfolio company of SCF Partners, in its acquisition of Amber LP, an electric and instrumentation services provider to the downstream and industrial sectors
Hi-Tech Industrial Services, an SCF Partners portfolio company, in its acquisition of Titan Group and its affiliated companies
Bayswater Natural Resources in the formation of Bayswater Fund IV, L.P., a $356 million fund focused on natural resource investments, including a net profits interest structure for undeveloped acreage
Clovis Point Capital in the sale of Mobile Solutions Services, a Managed Mobility Services software business
United PF Partners, the largest and fastest-growing Planet Fitness developer and portfolio company of JLM Financial Partners and Eagle Merchant Partners, in its sale to American Securities
Clovis Point Capital in a majority growth investment in Map Your Show, a leading provider of event management software, from its parent company Gardner Business Media
Riverstone Holdings in the formation of a new independent power producer, Onyx Strategic Investment Management I BV, and acquisition of a fleet of coal and biomass-fired power stations in Europe
Clovis Point Capital in its acquisition of Cirruspath, a leading provider of sales enablement software
Clovis Point Capital in its growth equity investment in RIVS.com, a provider of interview technology
Crowley Holdings in the closing with Global Infrastructure Partners of a $300 million preferred equity investment in Crowley Preferred Funding, LLC
Harvest Midstream in its $232.5 million acquisition of the remaining 75% interest in Arrowhead ST Holdings from its joint venture partner HEF HoldCo, resulting in Harvest owning 100% of Arrowhead
Spredfast, a leading provider of social media management software and solutions, in the merger with Lithium Technologies via its private equity sponsor, Vista Equity Partners
Continental Resources in its $220 million sale of mineral rights in the SCOOP and STACK oil and gas plays to, and formation of a joint venture with, Franco-Nevada Corporation
Continental Grain Co. in relation to its Venture Capital Investment in Florida Foods
Osaka Gas USA Co. in the acquisition from, and joint venture with, Sabine Oil & Gas relating to oil and gas properties located in Harrison and Panola Counties, TX
Jefferson Ethanol Holdings, a subsidiary of Jefferson Energy Companies, in its acquisition of Green Plains’ remaining 50% interest in JGP Energy Partners, an import and export fuel terminal in Beaumont, Texas
Credentials
- Texas Tech University School of Law, J.D. summa cum laude, 2014 (Order of the Coif; Managing Editor, Texas Tech Law Review; Burton Award, 2014 Distinguished Legal Writing Award)
- Texas A&M University, B.S., Sociology, 2010
- Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2022-2024
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” (Dallas): Litigation and Controversy–Tax, 2022–2024; Tax Law, 2022–2025
- Texas
- Deals & CasesJuly 8, 2024
- Deals & CasesJune 27, 2024
- Deals & CasesJune 12, 2024
- Deals & CasesMay 9, 2024
- Rankings & AwardsMarch 26, 2024
- Deals & CasesSeptember 28, 2023
- Rankings & AwardsAugust 21, 2023
- Rankings & AwardsMarch 27, 2023
- Deals & CasesNovember 4, 2022
- Rankings & AwardsAugust 18, 2022
- Rankings & AwardsMarch 29, 2022
- Deals & CasesMay 4, 2021
- Deals & CasesJanuary 22, 2021
- “Tax R&W Insurance in the Context of M&A Transactions,” Tax Executive Institute – Houston Chapter Tax School, October 4, 2021 (co-speaker)
- “Upstream Oil and Gas Like-Kind Exchange Transactions after Tax Reform,” Tax Executive Institute – Houston Chapter Tax School, February 27, 2018 (panelist)