Todd Way
Trammell Crow Center
2001 Ross Avenue
Suite 3900
Dallas, Texas 75201
Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002
Todd advises clients on the tax aspects of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, partnership and other joint venture arrangements, project development, and capital markets and private financing transactions. During his nearly 20-year career at Vinson & Elkins, he has worked extensively within a variety of industries, including natural resources (upstream and midstream), renewable power generation and storage, real estate, and technology. In addition, Todd has represented numerous private equity funds and other pooled investment vehicles in connection with capital formations, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Recognized in Texas by Chambers USA 2024, one client notes “Todd has the ability to take a complex issue and describe it in a way we can understand to make the best strategic decision.”
Experience Highlights
Southwest Airlines in a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supply agreement with Valero Marketing and Supply Company, a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation, to bring SAF to Chicago Midway International Airport in the state’s largest announced SAF supply agreement
Blackstone Credit and ClearGen, a Blackstone Credit portfolio company, in the formation of a strategic partnership between ClearGen and GreenStruxure, a Schneider Electric and Huck Capital joint venture, to develop, own and operate up to $500 million of renewable energy microgrid systems for C&I customers
Continental Resources in its $250 million strategic investment in Summit Carbon Solutions to fund the development and construction of carbon capture, transportation and sequestration infrastructure located in the Midwestern United States with initial capacity of up to 12.0 MMtpa and expansion capabilities up to 20.0 MMtpa
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners in the acquisition of Glidepath Power, a developer of battery storage and renewable energy projects
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))
A national bank (in its role as the agent for a $550 million secured lending facility to an upstream producer) in connection with the producer’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring and emergence in an Up-C structure
The Carlyle Group in the $300 million definitive drilling agreement to fund the development of Diamondback Energy’s oil and gas assets in Pecos County, Texas
8 Rivers Capital in its joint venture with ADM to develop the 280 MW Broadwing Clean Energy Complex in Illinois, one of the world’s first zero emissions Allam-Fetvedt cycle power plants, including CO2 storage capabilities
Plains All American Pipeline in its $1.438 billion sale of a 30 percent interest, and sale of a 20 percent interest by Magellan Midstream, for a collective 50 percent interest, in BridgeTex Pipeline Company to OMERS
Gulf Coast Ammonia in the development and financing of a world-scale, hydrogen-based ammonia project in Texas, including the negotiation of equity financing agreements
Flywheel Energy Operating, a portfolio company of funds managed by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, in its $1.86 billion acquisition of all Fayetteville Shale and ARKOMA upstream and midstream assets of Southwestern Energy Company via the acquisition of 100% of the issued and outstanding securities in SWN Production (Arkansas), LLC and DeSoto Gathering Company, LLC
EnCap Investments in its $394 million line of equity commitment to XCL Resources Holdings, a newly-formed Houston, Texas-based E&P company focused on the acquisition and development of oil and gas properties in the United States
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
Concho Resources in its $1.625 billion acquisition of oil and gas assets from Reliance Energy
TPG Capital in its $1.8 billion acquisition of natural gas properties in Wyoming’s Jonah field from Encana Corporation
Trafigura AG in the sale of a majority stake in its Corpus Christi Terminal and associated Eagle Ford assets in South Texas, and related joint ownership arrangements
Apollo Global Management in a $500 million equity commitment to CSV Midstream Solutions, which pursues the construction and operation of midstream facilities in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
SandRidge Energy in $1.12 billion sale of its Gulf of Mexico offshore and Gulf Coast assets to Fieldwood Energy, LLC
Austin Ventures in its acquisition of SAM, Inc., a surveying, mapping and engineering company
Century Payments in the sale of the company, an electronic payment processing company, to a wholly owned subsidiary of WorldPay US
Iracore International in the sale of the company, a Lime Rock Partners portfolio company and developer, manufacturer, and applicator of elastomeric products for pipelines and other equipment used in demanding industrial applications
Pioneer Natural Resources in the $300 million sale of Pioneer Natural Resources Alaska, Inc., its wholly owned subsidiary, to Caelus Energy
Welsh Carson in the $790 million sale of Concentra to Humana
BG North America in the $450 million sale of its entire U.S. power generation portfolio to Energy Capital Partners
United Engines Holding, a manufacturer and service provider operating within the oil, gas, and power industries, in its $270 million sale to Kirby Corporation
Parallel Resource Partners in its $700 million debut private equity fund, focusing on control investments in distress-driven opportunities in the North American upstream oil and gas sector
Lime Rock Partners in the $118.5 million line of equity commitment to Battlecat Oil & Gas, an exploration and production company focused on South Texas
The CEO of Endeavor Energy Holdings in the $100 million formation of the company, focused on thermal and hydroelectric power projects in Africa, and a line of equity commitment by Denham Capital
Lime Rock Partners in its $100 million line of equity commitment to Endurance Resources Holdings, an exploration and production company focused on the Bone Spring oil play in New Mexico
Lime Rock Partners in the formation of Shelf Drilling International Holdings Ltd., a joint venture with Castle Harlan and CHAMP, which acquired 38 shallow water drilling rigs from Transocean for $1.05 billion
Pharos Capital Group in its acquisition of Employee Benefit Solutions, a provider of employee benefit and wellness products for employers
Devon Energy in its $2.5 billion joint venture with Sinopec for five shale plays (Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Niobrara, Mississippian, Ohio Utica Shale, and Michigan Basin)
KNOC in its $1.55 billion joint venture to buy a stake in the liquids-rich Eagle Ford shale in Texas from Anadarko Petroleum, including subsequent sale of minority interest by KNOC to VOGO
SandRidge Energy in its $500 million disposition of a minority interest in, and its joint venture with Atinum Partners to develop, Mississippian Lime oil and gas properties
SandRidge Energy in its $1 billion sale and development joint venture with Repsol in the Mississippian Lime
Devon Energy in the sale of a 30% stake in 650,000 shale acres in the Permian Basin (Cline Shale and Midland-Wolfcamp Shale) to Japan’s Sumitomo for $1.45 billion
Concho Resources in its $1.65 billion acquisition of the oil and gas assets of Marbob Energy Corporation and affiliated entities
Oil States International in the $2.6 billion spin-off of its accommodations business into Civeo Corporation
Forest Oil in the spin-off of Lone Pine Resources Inc.
MoneyGram International in its $2 billion leveraged recapitalization
Credentials
- The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2003 (Order of the Coif; Texas Law Review)
- The University of Texas, B.B.A., Accounting with high honors, 1999
- The University of Texas, B.A., Economics with high honors, 1999 (Phi Beta Kappa)
- Chambers USA, Tax (Texas), 2021–2024
- Legal 500 U.S., U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious, 2019 and 2020
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), Tax Law (Dallas), 2021–2025
- Member: Tax Section, American Bar Association; Tax Section, State Bar of Texas; Tax Section, Dallas Bar Association
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- “Structuring JV Arrangements (Tax),” North American Petroleum Accounting Conference, May 17, 2018 (speaker)
- “New Proposed Regulations for BBA Partnership Audits Allow for Push Out Elections in Tiered Partnerships,” V&E Tax Update E-communication, December 19, 2017 (co-author)
- “Hot Topics in Oil and Gas Tax,” 14th Biennial Parker C. Fielder Oil and Gas Tax Conference, November 17, 2017 (moderator)
- “Implications of the Tax Reform Bill for Energy Companies,” Tax Reform Webcast & Teleconference, November 6, 2017 (speaker)
- “The New Era of Partnerships As Taxpayers,” American Investment Council, September 28, 2017, (co-author)
- “Taxation of Upstream and Downstream Partnerships,” Tax Executives Institute – Houston Chapter, Houston, Texas, February 17, 2016
- “13th Biennial Parker C. Fielder Oil and Gas Tax Conference,” Houston, Texas, November 19, 2015 (speaker)
- “Dramatic Changes to Partnership Audit Rules and Their Implications for Existing Partnerships,” V&E Tax Update E-communication, November 5, 2015 (co-author)
- Presented on Recent Trends and Traps in M&A Transactions at the Tax Executive Institute’s Houston Chapter Tax School, February 7, 2014
- Presented on the tax considerations involved in buying and selling subsidiaries out of consolidated groups at the Tax Executive Institute’s Houston Chapter Tax School, March 2, 2011
- “Introduction to Energy Finance,” V&E and Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Presentation, Midland, Texas, May 6, 2013