David B. Lassetter
Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002
David advises private equity firms, portfolio companies and a variety of public and private businesses in connection with strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and equity and debt financings. His work spans a variety industries, with a particular focus on energy, renewables and infrastructure matters.
Experience Highlights
Total Operations and Production Services, a leading provider of contract gas compression services for the Permian Basin, in its acquisition by Archrock in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $983 million
MN8 Energy LLC in its $325 million private placement of convertible preferred stock
Chord Energy in its $11 billion combination with Enerplus Corporation
Andros Capital Partners in the formation of a joint venture with Esperanza Capital Partners to acquire Deepwater Gulf of Mexico upstream and infrastructure assets, including Exxon’s assets in the Ursa and Princess Fields
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
BCP Raptor Holdco, a Blackstone and I Squared Capital portfolio company and the parent company of EagleClaw Midstream, in its $9 billion business combination with Altus Midstream to form Kinetik Holdings
Oasis Petroleum Inc. in a $6 billion merger of equals with Whiting Petroleum Corporation creating Chord Energy in 2022
Oasis Petroleum and its affiliate companies in the $1.8 billion merger of Oasis Midstream Partners LP with Crestwood Equity Partners LP
First Reserve in its $135 million acquisition of TriMas Corporation’s Lamons business, a provider of industrial sealing and fastener solutions
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
FleetPride, a TPG portfolio company, in its sale to American Securities
Pioneer Energy Services in its $295 million sale to Patterson-UTI Energy
Frank’s International in its merger with Expro Group
PermRock Royalty Trust in its $106 million initial public offering of trust units
Oasis Petroleum in the simplification of Oasis Midstream Partners and drop-down of Bobcat DevCo and Beartooth DevCo
Oasis Petroleum Inc. in its $306 million public offering of common stock
Oasis Petroleum Inc. in its $400 million offering of senior notes
Spectra Energy Partners, LP in its $800 million offering of senior notes by its subsidiary, Texas Eastern Transmission, LP
Underwriters to EQT Midstream Partners, LP in its $2.5 billion investment grade offering of senior notes
Energy Transfer Partners in its $60 billion merger with Energy Transfer Equity in a unit-for-unit exchange
EnCap Investments in a $500 million line of equity commitment to Santa Elena Holdings, a newly-formed E&P and minerals company
Credentials
- Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, J.D. cum laude, 2017 (Lead Articles Editor, SMU Law Review; Phi Delta Phi)
- The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Economics and Government, 2014
- Texas
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