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Walt Baker
Walt Baker
Associate — Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets
Associate — Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets

Walt Baker

Walt Baker
Houston

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

Walt Baker

Experience Highlights

  • MN8 Energy, Inc. in its initial public offering of common stock (In Registration)

  • MN8 Energy LLC in its $325 million private placement of convertible preferred stock

  • ProFrac Holding Corp. in its $288 million initial public offering of common stock

  • Vital Energy, Inc. in its $800 million offering of senior notes and concurrent tender offer

  • Energy Transfer LP in the $3.25 billion acquisition of WTG Midstream Holdings from affiliates of Stonepeak, the Davis Estate and Diamondback Energy, Inc.

  • Underwriters to New Fortress Energy Inc. in its $400 million public offering of Class A common stock

  • Energy Transfer LP in a $611 million public offering of common units by a selling stockholder

  • Atlas Energy Solutions Inc. in its $324 million initial public offering of Class A common stock

  • Black Mountain Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, in its $276 million initial public offering of units

  • Underwriters to Archaea Energy Inc., a renewable natural gas company, in a $265 million public offering of Class A common stock by a selling stockholder

  • Sunoco LP in its $1.5 billion offering of senior notes

  • Vital Energy, Inc. in its $200 million offering of senior notes

  • Initial purchasers and dealer manager in a $750 offering of senior notes by New Fortress Energy Inc. and concurrent tender offer

  • Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. in its $400 million private offering of senior notes

  • HF Sinclair Corporation in its $900 million debt exchange

  • Initial purchasers in the $400 million offering of senior secured second lien notes and concurrent tender offers by Martin Midstream Partners L.P.

  • Continental Resources, Inc. in its $1.6 billion offering of senior notes

  • Tap Rock Resources in the $2.45 billion ($1.5 billion in cash and $950 million in stock) sale of the equity of entities holding oil and gas assets in the Delaware Basin to Civitas Resources

  • 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

  • Grayson Mill Holdings II, LLC and Grayson Mill Holdings III, LLC in the $5 billion sale to Devon Energy

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

  • Tumbleweed Royalty IV, LLC, a royalty company backed by EnCap Investments, and Tumbleweed Royalty II, LLC, a royalty company backed by Quantum Capital Group, in the sale of 100% of their equity interests to Viper Energy Partners, LLC, a subsidiary of Viper Energy, Inc. for $461 million in cash and approximately 10.1 million units

  • Atlas Energy Solutions Inc. in its $450 million acquisition of all of Hi Crush’s Permian Basin proppant production assets and North American logistics operations

  • Sunoco LP in its $7.3 billion acquisition of NuStar Energy L.P.

  • HF Sinclair Corporation in its $1.44 billion acquisition of the remaining outstanding units of Holly Energy Partners not already owned by HF Sinclair Corporation or its affiliates

Credentials

  • University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2020 (Associate Editor, Texas Law Review)
  • Vanderbilt University, B.A. History cum laude, 2017
  • Texas