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Crosby Scofield advises public and private companies, private equity funds and other financial sponsors in connection with corporate matters and strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and preferred equity financings. Crosby also routinely represents issuers and underwriters in capital markets transactions.
Experience Highlights
Goldman Sachs Renewable Power in its separation from Goldman Sachs Asset Management to form MN8 Energy, an independent renewable energy company and second largest U.S. independent solar and storage energy producer by capacity
Apollo Global Management in a strategic partnership with Johnson Controls that will provide sustainability and energy efficiency services to help customers address decarbonization and operating cost goals for their buildings
Accelerate Investment Partners, LLC in the formation of a new partnership with affiliates of CBRE Investment Management Infrastructure Inc. focused on acquiring real property interests underlying digital infrastructure and renewable energy assets
Garnett Station Partners in its acquisition of Fat Tuesday, a New-Orleans based company specializing in to-go frozen drinks with more than 80 corporate and franchised retail locations
BCP Raptor Holdco in its $9 billion business combination between BCP Raptor, a Blackstone and I Squared Capital portfolio company, and Altus Midstream to form Kinetik Holdings
Spartan Acquisition Corp. II, a SPAC sponsored by funds managed by an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, in its $1.3 billion business combination with Sunlight Financial, a premier U.S. residential solar financing platform
Liberty Oilfield Services in its acquisition of Schlumberger’s onshore hydraulic fracturing business
Mercuria Investments in the $169 million acquisition of Beyond6, an alternative fuels solution platform supporting the decarbonization of heavy-truck transportation, from HC2 Holdings (now Innovate Corp. (NYSE: VATE))
Felix Energy in its $2.5 billion sale to WPX Energy
Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in its $3.3 billion acquisition of a controlling interest in Tallgrass Energy and subsequent acquisition of all outstanding publicly-held shares and associated co-investment arrangements
Devon Energy Corp. in the $3.125 billion sale of ownership interests in EnLink Midstream Partners and EnLink Midstream to Global Infrastructure Partners
Liberty Oilfield Services, Inc. in its $249 million initial public offering of common stock
Underwriters to Sunnova Energy International Inc. in its $168 million initial public offering of common stock
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
Pegasus Optimization Managers in a definitive agreement whereby EQT Infrastructure portfolio company Kodiak Gas Services acquired Pegasus
Accelerate Real Asset Management in its restructuring into a growth-oriented real asset platform with $800 million of capital commitments under management
Crestview Partners as lead investors in the $588 million merger of Matlin & Partners Acquisition Corporation, a SPAC, and U.S. Well Services, combining into a publicly listed hydraulic fracturing company
Pine Brook Road Partners in the $300 million line of equity commitment to Red Bluff Resources, a newly-formed energy company focused on oil and gas in the U.S. Mid-Continent and Permian Basins
Double Eagle Energy in the $200 million sale of its non-operated working interests in the SCOOP and STACK resource plays in southern and central Oklahoma to American Energy – NonOp
White Deer Energy in its acquisition of Flogistix, an oil and gas optimization company
Crestview Partners in its investment in convertible senior secured (third lien) PIK notes of U.S. Well Services, Inc and the related restructuring and exchange of its preferred equity of U.S. Well Services, Inc
Apollo Global Management in an equity commitment to Resource Energy, an oil and gas production company
Castlerock Exploration in a line of equity commitment to the company by institutional investors
Devon Energy Corp. in the $8.84 billion contribution of substantially all of its U.S. midstream business to Crosstex Energy and Crosstex Energy to form a consolidated midstream business controlled by Devon
WildHorse Resource Development in its $4 billion sale to Chesapeake Energy
Devon Energy Corp. in its $1.9 billion acquisition of the privately held Felix Energy, a portfolio company of EnCap Investments, with underlying assets of 80,000 net surface acres in the Anadarko Basin STACK play
The General Partner of Dominion Midstream Partners in the $1.725 billion acquisition of Questar Pipeline from Dominion Resources
Devon Energy Corp. in the $600 million acquisition of 253,000 net acres in the Powder River Basin
Devon Energy Corp. in the $220 million drop down of the Victoria Express Pipeline System and related assets to EnLink Midstream Partners in exchange for cash and equity
Castlerock Exploration in the acquisition of various oil and gas assets in the Eagle Ford Basin
Luminus Management, LLC, Oaktree Capital Management, LP, and LSP Investment Advisors, LLC, in a $25 million investment in Series A convertible preferred stock of Battalion Oil Corporation
Riverstone Holdings in the private placement of convertible preferred shares of Pipestone Energy Corp., with an initial liquidation preference of CAD$70 million, to Riverstone Holdings, certain hedge funds, and private client managed accounts of GMT Capital Corp. and GMT Exploration Company LLC
Crestview Advisors in its investments in a $55 million private placement of Series A redeemable convertible preferred stock and a $21 million private placement of Series B redeemable convertible preferred stock from U.S. Well Services, Inc
Merchant Banking Division of The Goldman Sachs Group in the acquisition of 300,000 shares of the 12% Redeemable Preferred Stock of McDermott
MPLX LP in its $1 billion private placement of Series A convertible preferred units
Gastar Exploration, Inc. in its $50 million public offering of preferred stock
Ranger Energy Services, Inc. in its $85 million initial public offering of common stock
Underwriters to 8point3 Energy Partners LP in its $420 million initial public offering of common units
Vantage Energy Inc. in its initial public offering of common stock (converted to a sale process)
Liberty Oilfield Services, Inc. in its $192 million public offering of Class A common stock by funds affiliated with Riverstone Holdings
Underwriters to Sunnova Energy International Inc. in its $251 million public offering of common stock by a selling stock holder and its $115 million public offering of common stock by a selling stockholder
Selling Shareholder in the $586 million public offering of common units by Enlink Midstream Partners, LP
Initial purchasers in the $400 million “green bond” offering by Sunnova Energy Corporation
Initial purchasers in the $575 million offering of convertible senior notes by Sunnova Energy International Inc.
SandRidge Energy, Inc. in its buy back and exchange of an aggregate of $525 million of senior notes for cash and $275 million of convertible senior notes
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC in its $1.05 billion investment grade offering of senior notes
N&W Global Vending S.p.A. in its €300 million offering of senior notes and its concurrent €100 million private placement of second lien notes
SandRidge Energy, Inc. in its $1.25 billion offering of senior secured notes
Credentials
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 2012 (Harvard Business Law Review)
- Texas A&M University, B.B.A., Finance summa cum laude, 2009 (Gathright Scholar Award recipient for top student at Mays Business School)
- Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2018−2024
- Mays Business School Dean’s Advisory Board
- Parade Committee: Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
- Texas
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