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Charles N. Fitzpatrick
Charles N. Fitzpatrick
Senior Associate — Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity
E: cfitzpatrick@velaw.com T: +1.713.758.4552
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Senior Associate — Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity

Charles N. Fitzpatrick

Charles N. Fitzpatrick
Houston
T: +1.713.758.4552
F: +1.713.583.3615

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

E: cfitzpatrick@velaw.com
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Charles N. Fitzpatrick

Charlie’s principal areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, private equity and capital markets transactions. He works with a variety of public and private businesses and financial sponsors in connection with strategic transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, private equity investments, joint ventures and general corporate matters.

Experience Highlights

  • Earthstone Energy, a growth-oriented, independent energy company, in the $4.5 billion sale of the company to Permian Resources Corporation

  • Trace Midstream, a Quantum Energy Partners portfolio company, in the $950 million sale of Trace’s Haynesville gathering and processing assets to The Williams Companies

  • Targa Resources Corp. in connection with its entry into a definitive agreement to acquire Lucid Energy, a company that natural gas gathering, treating and processing services in the Delaware Basin, from Riverstone Holdings and Goldman Sachs Asset Management for $3.55 billion

  • Parsley Energy in its $4.5 billion sale to Pioneer Natural Resources Company

  • Blackstone in its acquisition of Sabre Industries from The Jordan Company

  • Archaea Energy in its $215 million acquisition of NextGen Power Holdings, the owner of a portfolio of 14 operating landfill gas to power projects located in the Mid-Atlantic United States, from Riverview Investment Holdings, an affiliate of Castleton Commodities International

  • 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

  • Quantum Energy Partners and its portfolio company, Woodford Express Partners, in the $485 million sale of Woodford Express, a Mid-Continent gas gathering and processing system, to Energy Transfer

  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Fund of The Carlyle Group in the formation of a joint venture with Alchemy Renewable Energy, LLC (ARE), a renewable energy developer and tax equity arranger, together with the acquisition of certain operating and development-stage solar projects from ARE

  • 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))

  • ProFrac Holdings in its $407.5 million acquisition of FTS International, creating one of the largest completions-focused service companies in the U.S. oil and gas industry

  • Frontier Tubular Solutions, a portfolio company of SCF Partners, in its acquisition of Permian Enterprises, a tubular goods service provider

  • Tug Hill and XcL Midstream in the $5.2 billion sale of Tug Hill’s upstream and XcL Midstream’s gathering and processing assets to EQT Corporation

  • Rockcliff Energy II, a portfolio company of Quantum Energy Partners, in its $2.7 billion sale to TG Natural Resources

  • Flywheel Bakken, formerly Valorem Energy, in its sale of non-operated assets to Northern Oil and Gas

  • Quantum Energy Partners in its acquisition of an interest in Mexico Pacific Limited, the owner of Saguaro Energia, a 14.1 mtpa LNG export facility located in Puerto Libertad, Sonora, Mexico

  • FleetPride, a TPG portfolio company, in its sale to American Securities

  • Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in its $3.3 billion acquisition of a controlling interest in Tallgrass Energy 

  • Quantum Energy Partners in its line of equity investment in a newly-formed company, FireBird Energy II Partners

  • Vitol Group in the establishment of Vencer Energy, a new U.S. venture to produce oil and gas

  • Rockcliff Energy Management II LLC in its $700 million offering of senior notes

  • Underwriters to Southwestern Energy Company in its $158 million public offering of common stock

  • Underwriters to Southwestern Energy Company in its $1.2 billion investment grade offering of senior notes

  • Underwriters to Southwestern Energy Company in its $350 million offering of senior notes

  • Underwriters to Southwestern Energy Company in its $1.15 billion offering of investment grade senior notes

  • USA Compression Partners, LP in its $750 million offering of senior notes

  • Liberty Oilfield Services, Inc. in its $117 million public offering of Class A common stock by a selling stockholder

Credentials

  • The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2018
  • The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Economics, 2015
  • Texas

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