Maddie Brown
Maddie advises partnerships, corporations, and individuals on the federal income tax aspects of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, reorganizations, and private equity. She also represents taxpayers in tax controversies involving complex domestic and international business transactions.
The following is a list of representative matters in which Maddie has assisted.
Experience Highlights
Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation II, a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Riverstone Holdings, in its $1.2 billion business combination with Tritium, a Brisbane-based developer and manufacturer of direct current fast chargers for electric vehicles
Baytex Energy Corp. (TSX:BTE) in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Ranger Oil Corporation, a pure play Eagle Ford company
Nabors Energy Transition Corporation in its business combination with Vast Renewables Limited, a renewable energy company specializing in concentrated solar power energy systems that generate zero-carbon, utility-scale electricity and industrial heat
Enbridge in a joint venture merger with Phillips 66 resulting in a single joint venture holding both Enbridge’s and Phillips’s indirect economic ownership interests in Gray Oak Pipeline and DCP Midstream
WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust in its $3.1 billion sale to Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.
B&D Holdings in a joint venture with H.I.G. Realty Partners to recapitalize an existing 50 property, 2.2 million square foot portfolio owned by B&D and consisting of industrial properties located in Texas, Minnesota, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, New Mexico, New Jersey and New York and a separate programmatic joint venture to pursue and acquire industrial properties throughout the U.S.
Tax equity investor in its approximately $320 million commitment to a portfolio of two solar projects in Arizona and Virginia totaling 355 MW and including 100 MW of storage, representing one of the first tax equity financings of a battery energy storage asset for this investor
Oasis Petroleum and its affiliate companies in the $1.8 billion merger of Oasis Midstream Partners LP with Crestwood Equity Partners LP
WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust in its $370 million contribution of its U.S. distribution and logistics properties to a joint venture with the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario
Hartree Partners in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Sprague Resources from Axel Johnson and subsequent take-private of Sprague
Crosstimbers Capital in its $610 million sale of the Red Dot self-storage portfolio of 187 properties and management platform
Credentials
- The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2019 (Texas Law Review, Order of the Coif)
- New York University School of Law, LL.M., Taxation, 2020
- Dartmouth College, B.A. Government magna cum laude, 2016
- District of Columbia
- Texas
- French, Working Proficiency
- Chinese, Limited Working Proficiency
- InsightSeptember 19, 2024
V&E Tax Update
- Deals & CasesJuly 1, 2024
- InsightSeptember 7, 2023
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- InsightMarch 2, 2023
- Deals & CasesMarch 2, 2023
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- Deals & CasesDecember 12, 2022
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- Deals & CasesJune 22, 2022
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- InsightMarch 1, 2022
V&E REIT Update
- Deals & CasesFebruary 16, 2022
- Deals & CasesOctober 26, 2021
- Deals & CasesApril 20, 2021