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Caroline L. Kuehn
Caroline L. Kuehn
Counsel — Energy Transactions & Projects
Counsel — Energy Transactions & Projects

Caroline L. Kuehn

Caroline L. Kuehn
Houston

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

Caroline L. Kuehn

Experience Highlights

  • Affiliates of Global Infrastructure Partners in the acquisition of a 50 percent interest in the multi-billion dollar South Fork and Revolution Offshore Wind Projects off the East coast of the United States from Eversource Energy, including the negotiation of the joint venture arrangements with Orsted for the construction and operation of the projects and all financing arrangements (IJInvestor Joint Venture of the Year, 2024)

  • Meritage Midstream Services II in connection with its acquisition by an operating subsidiary of Western Midstream Partners in an all-cash transaction for a purchase price of $885 million

  • EnCap in its sale of four portfolio companies owning upstream assets in the Midland Basin to a subsidiary of Ovintiv Inc. for $4.275 billion

  • Targa Resources Corporation in its establishment of a joint venture with WPC Parent, LLC in respect of the 2.5 Bcf/d Blackcomb Pipeline in Texas

  • Plains All American in the $850 million divestiture of its Pine Prairie and Southern Pines natural gas storage facilities to an affiliate of Hartree Partners

  • Archaea Energy, an industry-leading RNG producer, in a joint venture with Republic Services Inc., a leader in the environmental services industry, to contribute approximately $1.1 billion over five years in order to develop 39 landfill gas to RNG projects across the U.S.

  • NALA Renewables and Buckeye Partners in connection with the acquisition of and joint venture structuring for, the Swift Current Energy portfolio, a US portfolio of development wind and solar assets in excess of 10GW, including the construction and term financing and tax equity investments in the portfolio assets

  • Midstream company in structuring a joint venture to gather high CO2 and otherwise nonconforming natural gas from multiple producers, treat the natural gas, and remove, capture, transport, and sequester the CO2 (ongoing)

  • Devon Energy in its joint venture with QL Capital Partners to invest in non-operated working interests located in the Delaware Basin

  • U.S. Independent Oil Producer in its acquisition of Powder River Basin assets in Wyoming from an American Energy Company

  • VTX Energy Partners, LLC in its acquisition of Delaware Basin Resources and associated surface and water businesses

  • Vitol Green Holdings in the sale of its 244 MW operating wind farm portfolio in Pennsylvania to Exus Management Partners

  • Archaea Energy in the formation of a joint venture with a public utility for the development of a landfill gas to renewable natural gas project located in Pennsylvania

  • Archaea Energy in the formation of a joint venture with a waste management company for the development of landfill gas to renewable natural gas projects at various landfills located in the United States

  • SUSI Partners AG in a joint venture with SMT Energy to develop, own and operate multiple battery energy storage systems in the United States, including 10 battery energy storage system in South Texas with a combined capacity of 100 MW

  • SUSI Partners AG in a joint venture with SMT Energy to develop, own and operate eight battery energy storage systems in Texas with a combined capacity of ~80 MW

  • 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 the formation of Wink to Webster Pipeline, a joint venture with ExxonMobil and Lotus Midstream for a crude oil pipeline in Texas from Wink to Webster

  • Plains All American in its renegotiation of joint venture arrangements in respect of the Cactus II Pipeline joint venture

  • Devon Energy Production Company in its formation of a joint venture with QL Capital Partners (QLCP) in the Delaware Basin, and contribution of its gathering system and compression assets to the partnership in exchange for certain special cash distribution funded by QLCP

  • DCP Midstream and Targa Resources in the formation of Gulf Coast Express, a joint venture with Kinder Morgan, to construct, operate and own the Gulf Coast Express Pipeline to transport up to 1.98 Bcf/d of natural gas from the Permian Basin to the Agua Dulce, Texas

  • Kimmeridge Energy Management Company in the acquisition of Commonwealth LNG, a project company developing an LNG liquefaction and export facility near Cameron, Louisiana

  • Buckeye Partners in its purchase of a portion of Nala Renewables’ interest in the Swift Current Energy joint venture

  • 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

  • An oil and gas company in its sale of two California pipelines to an ExxonMobil subsidiary for cash and significant non-cash consideration

  • An oil and gas company in its purchase of Powder River Basin upstream assets for $215 million

  • An oil and natural gas company in its purchase of Powder River Basin upstream assets for $195 million

  • Blue Racer Midstream in its purchase of three compression facilities in Ohio from EnLink Midstream

  • An energy and commodities company’s purchase of a solar project and battery storage facility for ~$100 million

  • An energy and commodities company for the acquisition of three solar projects and battery energy storage facilities in the United States

  • An energy and commodities company in its sale of a ~240MW wind farm (pending)

  • Chevron Phillips Chemical Company in connection with a joint venture with QatarEnergy to develop an $8.5 billion integrated polymers facility in Orange, Texas and negotiation of related supply and offtake arrangements

  • New Fortress Energy in the successful bid to operate, maintain, modernize and decommission Puerto Rico’s approximately 3,600 MW of thermal power generation facilities

  • A private equity-backed portfolio company in drafting and negotiation of various fuel and power service agreements and supply/offtake agreements in respect of conversion of European coal plants into power plants

  • ORIX Corporation USA’s tax equity investment in a ~150MW wind project in Texas

  • JPMorgan’s tax equity investment in the ~200MW Riverstart solar project, the largest solar project in Indiana

  • A financial services company in its tax equity investment in a 65MW solar project in North Carolina

Credentials

  • University of California, Berkeley School of Law, J.D., 2015 (Senior Articles Editor, Berkeley Business Law Journal)
  • Georgetown University, B.A., Philosophy and Sociology magna cum laude, 2011
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Mergers & Acquisitions Law (Houston), 2023–2025
  • Texas