Industrial Applications
Vinson & Elkins works closely with waste and water solutions companies, recyclers, manufacturers, refiners, chemical companies, investors, and lenders to industrial participants around the world. From environmental and regulatory concerns to a full spectrum of transactional and corporate advice, V&E lawyers have a detailed understanding of the market conditions that affect the industrial sector.
Drawing on our market-leading experience in the renewables, waste and recycling, downstream, chemical and infrastructure sectors, V&E’s multi-disciplinary team provides comprehensive service to our industrial clients on all phases and aspects of their transactions and projects. V&E’s experience includes advising on financing, mergers and acquisitions, project development, tax, intellectual property, environmental and regulatory matters. Our lawyers advise participants in a full range of industries, including:
- Energy Efficiency
- Water Solutions Treatment
- Water Technology Solutions
- Liquid Waste Solutions
- Environmental Services
- Waste Services
- Recycling Services
- Plastic Recycling
- Water Technology Solutions
- Organic Waste
- Green Chemistry/Bio-Chemicals
- Green Industrial Products
Experience Highlights
LRS, an independent waste diversion, recycling and portable services provider, and Goldman Sachs, as lead investor in LRS, in the sale of LRS to an affiliate of Macquarie Infrastructure Partners
Crestview Partners in its investment in Upwell Water, a water-focused specialty finance company
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures in its investment in the Series D Preferred Stock financing of Novomer, which develops and produces sustainable chemicals and polymers from plant-based and renewable feedstocks
Streamline Innovations, Inc., a company providing sustainable solutions for natural gas and water, as borrower in a $20 million senior secured, delayed draw term loan
Ridgewood Infrastructure in its formation of the $600 million Ridgewood Water & Strategic Infrastructure Fund
Ridgewood Infrastructure in a $79 million line of equity platform investment in Undine Group, a company that acquires, develops and operates regulated water and wastewater companies in the United States
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures in an investment in OxyMem, a waste water treatment technology company
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures in an equity investment in Typhon Treatment, a UV LED water treatment technology and equipment manufacturing company
Synagro Technologies, a portfolio company of EQT Partners, in the acquisition of Nursery Products, owner of a composting facility in Southern California
Clearsign Technologies, a leader in industrial combustion technologies that improve energy efficiency, in the defense of the consent solicitation and threatened proxy fight of MDB Capital
Goldman Sachs in a co-investment in a waste management company for a total investment of approximately $35 million
Ridgewood Infrastructure in its investment in Vista Ridge, a 142 mile pipeline that supplies approximately 20% of the fresh water for the City of San Antonio, Texas under a 30-year “take-or-pay” contract with the San Antonio Water System
Represented waste recycling companies in various state rulemaking proceedings and permitting matters
Counseled carbon nanotube manufacturing on compliance with federal Toxic Substances Control Act requirements applicable to nanotechnology uses
Advised water recycling company on all aspects of federal and state permitting and compliance issues in connection with the construction and operation of a $200 million wastewater recycling facility
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