
Patricia Adams

The Grace Building
1114 Avenue of the Americas
32nd Floor
New York, New York 10036

Patricia is a member of the firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits practice. She advises clients on a wide range of compensation and employee benefits arrangements, particularly with regard to issues arising from mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and initial public offerings. She provides advice regarding employment agreements, separation agreements, equity compensation programs, cash compensation programs, deferred compensation, retirement plans, and the tax aspects of compensation arrangements.
Patricia represents private equity investors and their portfolio companies as well as public companies across many industries including healthcare, technology, infrastructure, and business and professional services. Her practice also encompasses counseling clients in day-to-day executive compensation and benefits matters and related corporate governance matters.
Experience Highlights
Kimmeridge Energy Management Company in the acquisition of Commonwealth LNG, a project company developing an LNG liquefaction and export facility near Cameron, Louisiana
Crowley Maritime Corporation in a joint venture with Seabulk Tankers, Inc., a subsidiary of SEACOR Holdings, to combine their respective fleets of “Jones Act” vessels engaged in liquid energy and chemical transportation and related operations and services to form Fairwater Holdings LLC , a new, independent U.S. Jones Act service provider
Crescent Energy in its $2.1 billion acquisition of SilverBow Resources
PureWest Energy in its $1.84 billion merger with PW Picasso Buyer, a newly formed entity sponsored by a private consortium of family offices and financial institutions
Sixth Street Partners in its majority investment in Caliche Development Partners, a company focused on the acquisition, development, and operation of natural gas and industrial gas storage assets as well as carbon sequestration, which owns the Golden Triangle Storage facilities and carbon sequestration development project in Beaumont, TX, and the Central Valley Gas Storage facilities in Princeton, CA
FollettUSA, Inc. and Storage Star Holdings in the formation of a $250 million private REIT fund formed to invest in and manage self-storage properties
Apollo Global Management in connection with the acquisition of a majority interest in Freedom CNG, an owner and operator of compressed natural gas and renewable natural gas fueling infrastructure
The Houston Astros in a joint venture with the Houston Rockets to acquire AT&T SportsNet Southwest from Warner Bros
Voyager Midstream Holdings, LLC, an independent midstream company focused on the acquisition and development of crude oil, natural gas and produced water infrastructure and a portfolio company of Pearl Energy Investments, in connection with the acquisition of DCP East Texas Gathering, LLC, an indirect subsidiary of Phillips 66
Global Infrastructure Partners, a leading global infrastructure investor, in connection with its approximately $2.6 billion all cash sale of Medallion Midstream Partners, LLC to ONEOK, INC. (NYSE: OKE)
Microsoft in its acquisitions of Nuance, ZeniMax Media and GitHub
Blackstone in its acquisitions of Clarus, Harvest Funds, DCI, Tradesmen, and TaskUs
EQT Partners in its acquisitions of Aldevron, Certara, Clinical Innovations and Waystar
KKR in its acquisitions of PetVet Care Centers, Heartland Dental, PharMerica Corporation, Gardner Denver
Apax in its acquisitions of Cadence Education, Vyaire Medical, Candela Corporation and Tosca Services
Credentials
- Northwestern University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2011
- University of Notre Dame, M.S., Accountancy, 2006
- University of Notre Dame, B.B.A., Accounting, 2005
- Legal 500 U.S., Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation & Retirement Plans: Transactional, 2023 and 2024
- New York
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