
Todd D. Hartis

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

Todd advises private equity firms, other financial sponsors, portfolio companies and a variety of public and private businesses in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and a wide range of other strategic transactions. His work spans an array of industries, including traditional energy, renewables, infrastructure and technology.
Experience Highlights
3 Bear Energy, a Blackstone Credit portfolio company, in the $624.7 million sale to DKL Delaware Gathering, a subsidiary of Delek Logistics Partners, of its crude oil and gas gathering, processing and transportation businesses and water disposal and recycling operations in the Delaware Basin in New Mexico
Spartan Acquisition Corp. III, a SPAC, in its $3.14 billion business combination with Allego Holding B.V., a leading pan-European electric vehicle charging network
Switchback II Corporation, a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of NGP Energy Capital Management, in its $2.3 billion business combination with Bird Rides, a leader in shared short range environmentally friendly electric transportation
Talos Energy in its $2.5 billion combination with Stone Energy, creating an offshore-focused E&P company
TPG Growth and The Rise Fund in the acquisition of CLEAResult, the country’s leading provider of efficiency solutions for utility companies, from General Atlantic
Anadarko Petroleum in its $4.015 billion sale of midstream assets to Western Gas Partners and the simplification transaction between Western Gas Partners and Western Gas Equity Partners
Devon Energy Corp. in the $3.125 billion sale of ownership interests in EnLink Midstream Partners and EnLink Midstream to Global Infrastructure Partners
Talos Energy in multiple acquisitions of U.S. Gulf of Mexico producing assets, exploration prospects and acreage from affiliates of ILX Holdings, Castex Energy and Venari Resources for $640 million
Black Mountain Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, in its $276 million initial public offering of units
Underwriters to Hilcorp Energy I, L.P. in its $1.2 billion offering of senior notes
Spartan Acquisition Corp. III, a SPAC, in its $3.14 billion business combination with Allego Holding B.V., a leading pan-European electric vehicle charging network
Switchback II Corporation, a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of NGP Energy Capital Management, in its $2.3 billion business combination with Bird Rides, a leader in shared short range environmentally friendly electric transportation
Talos Energy in its $2.5 billion combination with Stone Energy, creating an offshore-focused E&P company
TPG Growth and The Rise Fund in the acquisition of CLEAResult, the country’s leading provider of efficiency solutions for utility companies, from General Atlantic
Anadarko Petroleum in its $4.015 billion sale of midstream assets to Western Gas Partners and the simplification transaction between Western Gas Partners and Western Gas Equity Partners
Devon Energy Corp. in the $3.125 billion sale of ownership interests in EnLink Midstream Partners and EnLink Midstream to Global Infrastructure Partners
Talos Energy in multiple acquisitions of U.S. Gulf of Mexico producing assets, exploration prospects and acreage from affiliates of ILX Holdings, Castex Energy and Venari Resources for $640 million
3 Bear Energy, a Blackstone Credit portfolio company, in the $624.7 million sale to DKL Delaware Gathering, a subsidiary of Delek Logistics Partners, of its crude oil and gas gathering, processing and transportation businesses and water disposal and recycling operations in the Delaware Basin in New Mexico
PE-backed midstream company in its $320 million strategic joint venture to provide comprehensive end-to-end water management solutions in the Permian basin
CARBO Ceramics in its sale to Wilks Brothers and Equify Financial through a debt-for-equity exchange pursuant to a plan of reorganization in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case
CSL Capital Management in the formation of Paramount Pipeline and Process Solutions and the subsequent acquisition of Pipelogic Services, a Texas-based oilfield services company
Black Mountain Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, in its $276 million initial public offering of units
Liberty Oilfield Services, Inc. in its $192 million public offering of Class A common stock by funds affiliated with Riverstone Holdings
Underwriters to Hilcorp Energy I, L.P. in its $1.2 billion offering of senior notes
Harvest Midstream I, L.P. in its $600 million offering of senior notes
Underwriters to Hilcorp Energy I, L.P. in its $1 billion offering of senior notes
Underwriters to CNX Resources Corporation in its $500 million offering of senior notes
Credentials
- The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2016 (Staff Editor, Texas International Law Journal)
- The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Economics, 2013
- Todd was on secondment to a client and returned January 2, 2025
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” (Houston): Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, 2023–2025; Mergers & Acquisitions Law, 2023–2025
- Texas
- Rankings & AwardsAugust 21, 2023
- Deals & CasesMarch 9, 2023