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The Texas Lawbook

Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury

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CDT Roundup: 16 Deals, 14 Law Firms, 91 Texas Lawyers, $38.9B

April 16, 2019 Claire Poole

What a difference a day makes.

As of Thursday of last week, year-to-date M&A activity in the energy and power sectors was lagging last year’s and even 2017’s figures, according to Refinitiv.

But then Friday morning came with a big announcement: That Chevron Corp. had agreed to buy Anadarko Petroleum for $33 billion. Including that transaction, deal value so far this year has surpassed the last high of 2007, which approached $200 billion, according to the data provider.

After the Chevron-Anadarko marriage was announced, the superlatives came gushing forth: The largest shale deal ever; the 11th biggest energy and power deal in history; and the largest oil and gas merger since 2015 (when Royal Dutch Shell bought the BG Group for $53 billion).

With some analysts contending that the deal was a “steal” for Chevron at $65 per share, news outlets reported that another bidder could come in – namely Occidental Petroleum, whose offer amounted to more than $70 per share but was rebuked because it didn’t have enough stock.

Oxy is considering its options, according to CNBC citing unnamed sources. But the break-up fee – 3% of the total transaction value, or around $1 billion – could be a deterrent.

Meanwhile, the equity and debt markets continue to be mostly closed for the oil and gas industry and the acquisition and divestiture, or A&D, market is down significantly over last year, as The Texas Lawbook has reported. What are companies to do if they need capital? 

In a word (or two words smushed together): Drillcos. These are joint ventures in which capital providers agree to share drilling costs in exchange for an equity stake in the properties. Once the wells hit a certain return, much of the interest reverts back to the producer. 

Drillcos aren’t new: They tend to pop out at times of tight liquidity.

Austin Elam, a newly minted partner at Haynes and Boone in Houston, spoke about drillcos’ rise and mechanics last week at a luncheon in Houston hosted by the Independent Petroleum Association of America. “Equity markets remain quiet, and with borrowing bases not rising, there’s not a lot of liquidity in the market,” he said.

After his address, Elam said he’s working on two drillcos right now, both of which involve private companies operating in the Permian. He’s also working on two deals involving volumetric production payments, or VPPs – which give the capital provider the right to part of a company’s oil and gas production in exchange for financing its drilling costs. It’s another resurrected structure from previous tight times.

In other deal news, last week Preqin released its private equity update, which found that first quarter buyout deals globally had fallen to 1,100 worth $101 billion versus the $130 billion record in the same period of last year.

Fundraising did a bit better, with 219 funds pulling in $100 billion in the first quarter, slightly surpassing the $95 billion secured in the same period of last year. The firm said investors are mostly flocking to large and experienced fund managers.

Back in the Lone Star state, dealmaking by Texas lawyers was up last week, not just in terms of value (thanks Chevron) but also in volume. There were 16 deals worth $38.9 billion, versus 12 the week before worth $6.87 billion and 11 in the same week last year valued at $2.5 billion.

Weekly Corporate Deal Tracker Roundup Stats

A compilation of weekly stats from The Lawbook's CDT Weekly Roundup
(Deal Values in Millions)

Week Ending
Deal CountAmountFirmsLawyersM&A CountM&A Value $MCapM Count
CapM Value $M
03-May-202511$4,249139011$2,226.52$2,022.5
26-Apr-202512$8,78791689$6,0113$2,776
19-Apr-202511$8,09771389$7,9852$112
12-Apr-202513$2,392815210$2,0653$327
05-Apr-202519$27,7621518816$25,4733$2,289
29-Mar-202521$8,1881025816$4,1255$4,064
22-Mar-202519$6,4851423115$4,1284$2,857
15-Mar-202513$13,7371315110$9,9324$3,805
8-Mar-20257$2,2345665$2242$2,100
1-Mar-202511$3,05087510$2,5501$500
24-Feb-2512$16,39771496$6,6356$9,862
17-Feb-2517$12,1361313410$9,4112$2,725
10-Feb-2514$7,15491799$4,9505$2,204
3-Feb-2516 $10,068720011$7,5535$2,515
25-Jan-2514$10,261101259$2,2075$8,054
18-Jan-2519$7,3821531612$2,3007$5,082
11-Jan-2521$33,5601618716$32,5215$1,039
4-Jan-259$6,8279809$6,82700
21-Dec-2411$2,79811928$2,2293$570
14-Dec-2415$5,3231218612$3,8123$1,511
07-Dec-2416$4,7661023111$2,32152,445
30-Nov-2410$10,29191034$8,2906$2.001
23-Nov-2415$4,5531515311$3,3794$1,174
16-Nov-2417$11,4881124513$10,1864$1,303
09-Nov-2414$2,1101213912$1,4102$700
02-Nov-2412 $52,788 1110711$52,7381$50
26-Oct-248$3,1608657$3,0651$75
19-Oct-2412$5,3041113611$4,5541$750
12-Oct-2417$8,4381215015$8,1162$322
05-Oct-2422$23,1811218915$19,9807$3,201
28-Sep-2411$2,35671447$534$2,303
21-Sep-2412$9,568101695$4,1017$5,467
14-Sep-2424$10,9881223516$7,1758$3,813
7-Sep-2412$20,4201616811$20,3071$112.9
31-Aug-2413$20,631913412$14,7751$5,856
24-Aug-2419$8,4522132516$7,1023$1,350
17-Aug-2425$49,1961630411$39,38614$9,810
10-Aug-2420$12,2641531216$9,7944$2,470
03-Aug-2426$16,4981633418$8,1378$8,361
27-Jul-2419$16,4422127115$13,8384$2,604
20-Jul-2415$16,0161418410$14,2325$1,784
13-Jul-2420$17,220 1426518$7,146 2$10,074
6-Jul-2411$3,941 11958$2,650 3$1,291
29-Jun-2414$6,296 152248$6,296 6$1,927
22-Jun-2412$5,679 81375$210 7$5,469
15-Jun-2413$9,895 1621410$5,280 3$4,615
8-Jun-2419$23,859 1323912$19,436 7$4,423
1-Jun-2412$34,510 111479$26,110 3$8,400
25-May-2413$9,684 1517110$4,434 3$5,250
18-May-2411$5,490 111738$3,129 3$2,361
11-May-2422$14,855 1422716$11,105 6$3,750
4-May-2413$3,139 98710$1,297 3$1,842
27-Apr-2410$6,684 62810$6,684 00
20-Apr-2419$15,989 111479$5,208 10$10,781
13-Apr-2413$8,952 97610$1,652 3$7,300
6-Apr-2423$26,616 1422214$13,501 8$13,116
30-Mar-2412$9,286 81368$4,299 4$4,987
23-Mar-2418$5,451 1726616$4,759 2$692
16-Mar-2421$11,437 1318614$9,316 6$2,070
9-Mar-2423$4,695 2121819$2,723 4$1,972
2-Mar-2420$9,108 1937214$4,558 6$4,550
24-Feb-2419$16,382 1224815$9,507 4$6,875
17-Feb-2416$29,932 1515712$29,216 4$716
10-Feb-2425$10,750 1719619$5,372 6$5,379
3-Feb-2412$8,416 181259$3,416 3$5,000
27-Jan-249$8,165 9878$7,815 1$800
20-Jan-2414$4,084 1210912$3,219 2$865
13-Jan-2417$33,588 1225612$26,765 5$6,823
6-Jan-248$7,915 8846$7,265 2$650
30-Dec-2317$14,599 129915$2,714 2$11,885
23-Dec-2323$4,182 1321916$1,813 7$2,370
16-Dec-2313$16,436 132807$15,150 5$1,286
9-Dec-2326$14,633.90 1724416$8,095 10$6,538.90
2-Dec-2313$6,720 95712$6,630 1$90
25-Nov-239$4,835 91316$1,785 3$3,050
18-Nov-2322$6,568.70 1718414$4,709.20 8$1,859.50
11-Nov-2315$9,825 1317912$6,581 3$3,244
4-Nov-2315$20,582.50 1419312$19,417.50 3$1,165
28-Oct-2318$68,419.10 1815215$66,646 3$1,773.10
21-Oct-2316$6,755.90 1616515$6,755.90 1$3
14-Oct-2314$67,851.20 131259$61,998.50 5$5,852.70
7-Oct-2317$6,595.50 1322816$5,995.50 1$600
30-Sep-2317$1,896.45 1318914$806.45 3$1,090
23-Sep-2323$6,432.70 1723016$1,402.80 7$5,029.90
16-Sep-2325$23,226.70 2335316$17,239 9$5,987.70
9-Sep-2312$6,369 81027$4,311 5$2,058
2-Sep-2314$2,522 69213$1,322 1$1,200
26-Aug-2317$12,160.25 1320215$6,573.25 2$5,587.00
19-Aug-2319$11,505 1321315$11,255 4$250
12-Aug-2319$9,698.80 131847$3,270 12$6,428.80
5-Aug-2313$5,201 1211812$5,051 1$150
29-Jul-2315$21,031.60 1319611$18,292.00 4$2,739.60
22-Jul-2318$3,992 1213013$2,808 5$1,184
15-Jul-2313$8,254.95 138113$8,254.95 00
8-Jul-2316$5,441.45 1217211$2,443 5$2,998.45
1-Jul-2316$6,872 1010512$5,474 4$1,398
24-Jun-2313$10,914 1620110$7,874 3$3,040
17-Jun-2317$5,880.70 1515115$4,705.70 2$1,175
10-Jun-2319$8,516.10 1311116$6,252.40 3$2,263.70
June 3 202312$6,104.42 121388$4,256.92 4$1,847.50
27-May-2317$12,200 106711$6,165 6$6,035
20-May-2311$22,458.10 81034$19,455 7$3,003
13-May-2312$7,034 101018$5,460 4$1,574
6-May-2320$3,297.60 1819617$2,985.60 3$312
29-Apr-2323$3,691.20 1813517$1,969.70 6$1,721.50
22-Apr-2316$5,570 1410414$4,750 2$1,000
15-Apr-2312$23,818.10 95910$21,618.10 2$2,200
8-Apr-2316$7,949 91739$5,472 7$3,477
1-Apr-2321$18,676.70 1217511$10,926.70 10$7,750
25-Mar-2315$8,779.50 101415$2,362 10$6,416.50
18-Mar-237$14,048.80 6695$13,345 2$703.80
11-Mar-2321$11,576 1616516$8,131 5$3,445
4-Mar-2320$9,668 1122816$8,209 4$1,459
25-Feb-2313$5,335 1313012$4,235 1$1,200
18-Feb-2314$5,743.70 131588$898.70 6$4,845
11-Feb-2316$12,088 1213712$9,965 4$2,123
4-Feb-2317$8,066 1514013$5,614 4$2,452
28-Jan-237$2,180 7755$1,692.75 2$488
21-Jan-2317$5,768 1617412$1,918 5$3,850
14-Jan-2311$2, 800101028$421 3$2,400
7-Jan-2318$8,296 1116714$6,461 3$1,835
31-Dec-2214$2,732 119912$2,092 2$640
17-Dec14$7,919 1311512$7,419 1$500
10-Dec-2214$10,093 128811$7,093 3$3,000
3-Dec-2226$12,800.90 1117220$4,141 6$8,659.90
26-Nov-228$2,266.70 853$76 5$2,190.70
19-Nov-2221$2,886 1521219$2,550 2$336
12-Nov-2213$15,093.70 9819$14,200 4$893.70
5-Nov-222519,337.201650922$8,267.20 3$11,070
29-Oct-2215$7,805.30 911614$7,180.30 1$625
22-Oct-2220$8,193.50 1325313$5,442 7$2,751.50
15-Oct-229$3,046.10 91397$2,588.30 2$457.80
8-Oct-2219$2,011.80 1211416$833.80 3$1,178
1-Oct-2223$5,532.90 1615618$4,952.30 5$580.60
24-Sep-2218$5,194 1421615$4,050 3$1,144
17-Sep-2221$8,352.30 1232015$4,759.60 6$3,592.70
10-Sep-2215$19,853.50 1012613$19,403.60 2$450
3-Sep-229$2,312 9629$2,312 00
27-Aug-2216$30,891.70 1013515$30,666.40 1227.7
20-Aug-2212$1,977 815299253$1,052
13-Aug-2218$8,004.70 1124211$2,844.70 7$5,160
6-Aug-2224$7,948.90 1224017$3,577 7$4,371.90
30-Jul-228$6,941 9787$6,839 1$102
23-Jul-2211$801 119210$801 10
16-Jul-2214$3,650 1012214$3,650 00
9-Jul-2210$3,557.70 7689$3,557.70 10
2-Jul-2218$8,609.40 1315215$2,754.40 3$5,855
25-Jun-2215$6,142 131469$2,017 6$4,125
18-Jun-2217$11,890.10 1422815$11,410 2479.7
11-Jun-2217$7,600 1212310$2,300 7$5,300
4-Jun-2212$2,937 101279$692 3$2,245
28-May-229$3,197.60 11869$3,197.60 00
21-May-2214$7,284.50 1218511$6,609 3$675.50
14-May-2211$306.60 98010$306.60 1$225
7-May-2216$10,451.75 1210812$1,827 4$8,624.75
30-Apr-2216$2,296.50 1615712$895.50 4$1,401
23-Apr-2210$2,241 11588$1,641 2$600
16-Apr-2211$6,643 71568$2,359 3$4,284
9-Apr-2217$4,429 1418411$1,690 6$2,739
2-Apr-2213$1,755 88410$1,145 3$610
26-Mar-2211$3,205 8656$200 5$3,005
19-Mar-2213$2,239.17 910613$2,239.17 00
12-Mar-2218$12,016 1123915$11,965 2$51.35
5-Mar-2217$6,786 1313713$5,161 4$1,625
26-Feb-2212$5,095 81499$4,437.50 3$658
19-Feb-2217$22,229 1717414$21,354 3$875
12-Feb-2212$2,344.70 10738$641.70 4$1,703
5-Feb-2211$2,503 89911$2,503 00
29-Jan-2211$3,872 1210112$3,872 00
22-Jan-2213$5,143.50 109912$4,842.50 1$301
15-Jan-2212$7,605 91559$6,480 3$1,025
8-Jan-2213$8,256.20 1110213$8,256.20 00
1-Jan-229$1,273.80 6509$1,273.80 00
25-Dec-2121$4,734.75 1117616$3,410 5$1,324.75
18-Dec-2126$7,325.20 1519318$3,640.20 8$3,685.20
11-Dec-2116$5,017 1010913$1,417 3$3,600
4-Dec-2114$2,310 8868$2,310 6$1,882.05
27-Nov-219$3.460.1101016$1,758 3$1,702.60
20-Nov-2120$22,792 1515712$18,864.50 8$3,928
13-Nov-2121$26,729 1217813$11,822 8$14,907
6-Nov-2112$8,303 1315710$6,682 3$1,621
30-Oct-2121$10,368 1521815$9,24.46$1,103.00
23-Oct-2121$18.783.11522211$12,314 10$6,468.60
16-Oct-2115$3,868 1111815$2,293 2$1,575
9-Oct-2120$8,610 1617516$7,795 4$815
2-Oct-2114$6,250 1113710$5,200 4$1,050
25-Sep-2111$11,460 9937$10,200 4$1,250
18-Sep-2111$16,603 8998$15,084 3$1,519
11-Sep-2117$10,653 1110313$8,503 4$2,150
4-Sep-2113$7,222 108911$6,715 2$507
28-Aug-2112$763 96311$663 1$100
21-Aug-2112$29,659 77911$29,579 1$80
14-Aug-2122$17,845 1119912$12,805 10$5,04
7-Aug-2117$13,670 1213915$11,766 2$1,904
31-Jul-2121$8,160 1113410$3,574 10$4,586
July 24,202121$6,367 1113915$3,712 6$2,655
17-Jul-2114$4,009 1112412$2,015 2$1,994
10-Jul-2116$3,997 1314311$1,597 4$2,4
3-Jul-2124$7,492 139416$3,769 8$3,722
26-Jun-2110$4,995 7858$3,847 2$1,148
19-Jun-2128$16,830 82289$1,861 19$14,968
12-Jun-2126$27,238 1520919$25,602 7$1,636
5-Jun-2115$15,539 1310013$14,709 2$600
29-May-2135$20,279 1114528$18,647$1,639
22-May-2124$53,208 1417417$51,047 7$2,161
15-May-2118$10,620 1322011$5,870 7$4,809
8-May-2117$10,400 1115615$8,386 2$2,500
1-May-2121$7,200 1611512$3,808 9$3,392
24-Apr-218$20,200 9318$20,200 00
17-Apr-2114$6,270 810211$40,180 3$2,260
10-Apr-2115$8,940 1312914$7,990 1$950
3-Apr-2118$19,513 1015112$16,923 6$2,590
27-Mar-2127$13,942 1524414$4,300 13$9,633.50
20-Mar-2111$2,046 41023$270 8$1,776
13-Mar-2115$3,270 91096$538 9$2,732
6-Mar-2124$13,617 1019613$10,395 11$3,222
27-Feb-2119$8,105 1213915$4,970 4$3,135
20-Feb-219$8,820 91538$8,520 1$300
13-Feb-2112$4,852.60 78172,7665$2,086.60
6-Feb-2118$9,752 1315314$5,222 4$4,530
30-Jan-2118$9,449 918215$8,753.80 3$695.30
23-Jan-2114$8,150 81186$4,000 8$4,150
16-Jan-2117$6,783 1313811$2,400 6$4,382.90
9-Jan-2122$6,829 1413518$3,139.30 4$3,690
2-Jan-217$1,466 7607$1,466 00
26-Dec-2018$15,900 1216316$5,300 1$600
19-Dec-2018$9,769 1411014$8,426 4$1,343
12-Dec-2010$7,200 91009$3,325 1$3,830
5-Dec-2015$4,261 91229$2,780 6$1,481
28-Nov-2019$7,758 1011013$4,003 6$3,755
14-Nov-2014$864.10 1415712$289.10 2$575
7-Nov-2013$6,332 91299$2,483.50 4$3,849
31-Oct-2010$3,995.80 81036$3,231.10 4$754.70
24-Oct-206$18,100 6585$17,709 1$350
17-Oct-208$351.90 5558$351.90 00
10-Oct-207$5,229 3504$735 3$4,494
3-Oct-2014$21,428 91739$17,535 5$3,893
26-Sep-2010$12,770 8935$10,300 5$2,470
19-Sep-2014$8,365 91016$1,020 8$7,345
12-Sep-206$4,406 8593$1,270 3$3,136
5-Sep-2011$5,191 81179$4,061 2$1,130
29-Aug-2011$2,531 9945$1,130 6$1,401
22-Aug-2018$6,574 121407$1,930 11$4,644
15-Aug-2013$4,991 10977$1,216 6$3,775
8-Aug-2012$32,092 111129$30,457 3$1,635
1-Aug-207$5,287 8765$3,687 2$1,600
25-Jul-209$18,751 6677$18,403 2$348
18-Jul-206$1,982.50 5504$1,407.50 2$575
11-Jul-2011$565.10 127510$65.10 1$500
4-Jul-2010$8,889 8989$8,788 1$100.30
27-Jun-208$6,874 10505$4,972.50 3$2,081.50
20-Jun-2012$4,444 91157$2,829 5$1,615
13-Jun-206$3,582 4372$350 4$3,232
6-Jun-2011$3,213.70 8657$470 4$2,743.70
30-May-208$7,335 7486$4,639 2$2,697
23-May-204$432.40 4343$432.40 10
16-May-206$310 6345$310 10
9-May-2018$5,630 1612414$3,180 4$2,450
2-May-201510,40010908$1,900 7$,8,500
25-Apr-208$3,400 9365$1,000 3$2,450
18-Apr-2019$9,500 14928$185.70 11$9,360
11-Apr-2012$6,000 9405$190 7$5,800
4-Apr-2014$8,200 116810$2,200 4$6,000
28-Mar-2016$6,500 139610$3,700 6$2,800
21-Mar-2011$11,910 7337$2,250 4$9,960
14-Mar-207809.86346684.81125
7-Mar-2016$2,500 157013$669 3$1,400
29-Feb-2013$15,260 1312811$11,760 2$3,500
22-Feb-2012$3,700 109210$2,560 2$1,130
15-Feb-2016$1,250 108412$35 4$1,222
8-Feb-2018$6,080 1412314$2,595 4$3,485
1-Feb-2021$20,900 1210114$17,860 7$3,060
25-Jan-2013$7,430 136212$6,430 1$1,000
18-Jan-2023$9,580 1512019$6,580 4$3,000
11-Jan-2021$14,200 1819916$1,020 5$13,200
4-Jan-2022$6,400 1111916$3,204 6$3,245
28-Dec-1922$7,150 1917518$6,800 4$327.40
14-Dec-1924$36,300 2316719$9,500 5$26,800
7-Dec-1911$10,400 11557$1,082 4$9,370
November 30. 201914$2,450 1212612$1,760 2$692.50
23-Nov-1916$1,995 104111$615 5$1,380
16-Nov-1915$3,820 1313511$2,500 4$1,271
9-Nov-1925$12,900 1718223$12,200 2$575
2-Nov-1910$2,470 126192,4503$22
26-Oct-1912$5,560 147011$3,860 1$1,700
19-Oct-198$6,600 81388$6,600 00
12-Oct-1919$4,300 145516$3,800 3$500
5-Oct-1918$14,500 1916615$11,100 3$3,400
28-Sep-1919$8,100 1813218$7,560 1$550
21-Sep-1914$6,300 166611$2,160 3$4,170
14-Sep-1915$23,800 125611$21,250 4$2,570
7-Sep-1917$3,500 159814$1,900 3$1,600
31-Aug-195$8,700 6505$8,700 00
24-Aug-1916$10,000 148215$4,250 1$5,750
16-Aug-1910$1,680 5527$650 3$950
9-Aug-1917$17,700 156814$3,900 3$13,800
2-Aug-1913$5,760 1210813$5,760 NANA
27-Jul-1911$7,300 13768$6,570 3$730
20-Jul-1913$11,800 1312511$5,300 2$6,500
13-Jul-1910$775 7468$542.50 2$233
6-Jul-197$2,500 9857$2,500 00
29-Jun-1923$8,290 1515417$2,300 6$5,970
22-Jun-1917$10,700 1013914$7,700 3$3,000
15-Jun-1911$13,500 1416011$13,500 NANA
8-Jun-1913$2,870 175511$1,570 2$1,300
1-Jun-1910$4,460 11608$4,140 2$315
25-May-1917$4,360 147914$3,700 3$612
18-May-1922$9,000 1715016$3,400 6$5,600
11-May-1918$19,800 1717715$18,300 3$1,500
4-May-1910$7,075 6328$6,900 2$175
27-Apr-1915$3,200 1411714$3,160 1$40
20-Apr-1913$13,500 10909$12,200 4$1,300
13-Apr-1916$38,900 149114$37,800 2$1,100
6-Apr-1912$6,870 119410$6,730 2$50
30-Mar-1915$6,470 128410$7,91.55$5,677
23-Mar-1918$6,450 149114$5,042 4$1,408
16-Mar-1914$10,180 1211511$8,800 3$1,300
9-Mar-199$1,800 6498$1,300 1$500
2-Mar-1920$3,033 1610714$1,817 6$1,262
23-Feb-1912$2,040 8699$614.60 3$1,430
16-Feb-1916$9,970 187716$9,970 00
9-Feb-1914$6,400 1011014$6,400 00
2-Feb-1918$6,740 159916$5,720 2$950
26-Jan-1913$2,770 116711$918.95 2$1,850
19-Jan-1915$3,819 167612$2,594 3$1,225
12-Jan-1918$7,283 149215$1,683 3$5,600
5-Jan-1910$529 125010$529 00
22-Dec-1817$2,570 138714$941 3$1,629
15-Dec-1810$2,860 8268$264 2$2,600
8-Dec-1815$1,819 166512$552 3$1,267
1-Dec-1812$7,500 10909$1,200 3$6,200
28-Nov-1815$4,500 1110714$4,000 1$500
19-Nov-1818$6,137 139813$2,142 5$3,995
14-Nov-1818$9,200 1315215$8,500 3$694
6-Nov-1816$17,300 1618314$16,361 2$950
29-Oct-1814$14,400 1812717$13,800 1$600
24-Oct-1813$6,140 1312611$5,122 2$1,018
17-Oct-1818$18,390 1512514$12,292 4$6,098
10-Oct-1829$3,149 1810420$1,647 9$819
2-Oct-1818$9,300 116714$7,300 4$2,000
25-Sep-1813$7,000 117510$6,000 3$995
18-Sep-189$3,570 7449$3,570 00
11-Sep-1813$5,900 1013213$5,900 00
7-Sep-1814$5,000 158611$4,000 3$1,000
29-Aug-1815$20,700 147913$4,700 2$16,000
20-Aug-1810$12,400 11538$11,380 3$1,057
14-Aug-1812$19,900 121329$18,889 3$1,011
7-Aug-1816$68,600 1110613$67,259 3$1,340
31-Jul-1815$15,100 159511$13,060 4$2,060
23-Jul-1813$2,130 156010$1,804 3$1,100
17-Jul-1814$5,370 17989$4,310 5$1,100
9-Jul-1816$11,200 157410$11,080 6$862
3-Jul-1813$7,000 78112$6,330 1$750
25-Jun-1815$8,800 13979$4,970 6$3,930
18-Jun-1813$14,200 14807$221 6$14,290
11-Jun-1812$6,300 8968$5,910 4$803
6-Jun-1813$14,500 10888$14,154 5$579
31-May-1811$4,890 10638$3,240 3$1,790
22-May-1815$20,400 11639$19,808 6$885
15-May-1815$4,700 1510610$3,900 5$643
9-May-1811$1,400 13889$1,300 2$560
1-May-188$14,250 7887$13,400 1$450
24-Apr-1812$5,300 66111$4,470 1$800
17-Apr-189$1,800 10447$2,330 2$1,434
11-Apr-1811$2,500 8326$1,690 5$809
3-Apr-1815$13,400 111219$12,020 6$1,090
28-Mar-1810$4,000 10927$3,870 3$215
19-Mar-1817$5,800 135110$590 7$5,165
12-Mar-1815$3,130 114311$2,360 4$788
6-Mar-1819$5,400 1311610$1,530 9$4,860
27-Feb-1820$6,600 136914$5,530 6$1,030
19-Feb-1815$5,500 1411110$3,990 6$1,980
12-Feb-1823$10,900 1715712$7,110 11$3,840
5-Feb-1816$8,600 131007$1,330 9$7,800
30-Jan-1811$12,600 11685$7,300 6$4,982
24-Jan-1819$9,400 151295$2,010 14$7,337
18-Jan-1810$6,280 8492$2,100 8$4,188
9-Jan-1812$16,500 12929$15,890 3$475
3-Jan-1810$2,500 9478$2,350 2$150
27-Dec-1715$9,000 151139$7,568 6$1,784
18-Dec-1715$13,800 161649$13,010 7$1,118
11-Dec-1714$9,700 1012612$2,940 4$8,500
4-Dec-176$1,800 6315$1,510 1$300
28-Nov-177$3,850 8764$3,260 3$285
16-Nov-1710$2,700 10486$1,840 4$856
8-Nov-1715$2,380 179110$1,860 5$516
1-Nov-1712$4,700 17949$3,400 4$1,300
23-Oct-1715$10,500 106710$9,780 4$1,530
18-Oct-176$2,000 373$225 3$1,820
10-Oct-1712$6,570 1009$3,880 3$3,360
2-Oct-178$3,100 11193$1,630 5$1,750
25-Sep-178$4,880 8795$2,660 5$2,070
18-Sep-179$4,770 3$300 6$4,470
12-Sep-1711$4,430 8$2,030 3$2,400
1-Sep-174$1,310 3$317 1$1,000
23-Aug-1711$13,640 98$11,840 3$1,800

M&A ruled the day, with 14 deals amounting to $37.8 billion and two capital markets transactions amounting to $1.1 billion.

M&A/PRIVATE EQUITY/VENTURE CAPITAL DEALS

V&E aids Anadarko on $33B Sale to Chevron

As The Texas Lawbook previously reported, Chevron Corp. of San Ramon, California, announced that it had agreed to buy Anadarko Petroleum Corp. of The Woodlands for $33 billion in cash and shares.

If it goes through, the combination would produce more cash flow than Exxon Mobil — and help Chevron to produce more oil than its competitor.

Analysts say the transaction is a sign that the majors are ready to make large acquisitions at a time of low valuations for oil and gas companies. Other possible targets mentioned include Diamondback Energy, Concho Resources, Pioneer Natural Resources and Noble Energy.

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Vinson & Elkins advised Anadarko on the sale. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison represented Chevron, which used Shearman & Sterling on antitrust elements of the deal.

Chairman Mark Kelly led the V&E team with assistance from partner Lande Spottswood. Partners Brian Bloom and David D’Alessandro and senior associate Steven Oyler advised on executive compensation/benefits issues.

V&E has done work for Anadarko before, including the sale of its remaining midstream assets to affiliate Western Gas Partners this past fall for $4 billion in cash and shares. Kelly also worked on a $1.25 billion investment grade offering of senior notes for the company.

Anadarko’s general counsel is Amanda M. McMillian, who replaced the retiring Robert K. Reeves as the company’s top legal officer at the end of last year. Before joining the company in 2004, the Duke-trained lawyer practiced at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) is Chevron’s financial advisor. The team included Greg Weinberger in New York, Ricardo Concha in Houston and Jens Becker in New York. Anadarko tapped Evercore, including Dan Ward and Alex Jais in New York, and Goldman Sachs & Co., with Suhail Sikhtian in Houston.

The offer includes 0.3869 per share of Chevron and $16.25 per share in cash for each Anadarko share. The consideration values Anadarko at $65 per share, a 39% premium over the company’s closing price on the previous day and a 12% premium over its 12-month trailing average. 

The deal consists of 75% stock and 25% cash and gives Anadarko an enterprise value of $50 billion, including $15 billion in estimated debt. The acquisition has to clear Anadarko shareholders and regulators and is expected to close in the second half of the year.

Chevron said the purchase would enhance its portfolio in shale, deepwater and natural gas, deliver $2 billion in annual operating cost and capital synergies and add to its free cash flow and earnings one year after it closes.

The buyer also noted that Anadarko’s interest in Western Midstream Partners is well aligned with the companies’ combined upstream positions and would further enhance their economics and execution capabilities.

Locke Lord, Polsinelli, Sidley grab a slice of $1.4B Chuck E. Cheese deal

Attorneys at Morgan Lewis & Bockius in New York attracted headlines for counseling Irving-based CEC Entertainment – owner of Chuck E. Cheese’s – on its combination with Leo Holdings Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, backed by Lion Capital.

However, Rudy Rodriguez, CEC’s chief legal officer, told The Lawbook that Texas lawyers at three different firms also got a piece of the action. He cited Don Glendenning of Locke Lord, Mike Pegues of Polsinelli and Yvette Ostolaza of Sidley Austin as working on different aspects of the deal.

Kirkland & Ellis counseled Leo Holdings with lawyers outside of Texas. 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc. was Leo’s financial advisor, capital markets advisor and private placement agent. Jefferies was CEC’s financial and capital markets advisor.

Rodriguez joined CEC in 2014 as senior VP, general counsel and corporate secretary. In March he became chief legal as well as human resources officer. He previously was a partner at Gruber Hurst Johansen Hail Shank for six years and Godwin Gruber for three years. 

Before that, the Harvard-trained lawyer was an attorney at American Airlines and at Locke Purnell Rain Harrell. Early in his career, he was a briefing attorney at the Supreme Court of Texas and interned in the Texas General Land Office.

The deal, announced April 8, involves Leo Holdings combining with Queso Holdings Inc., CEC’s parent whose controlling stockholder is an entity owned Apollo Global Management. The transaction will give CEC an initial enterprise value of around $1.4 billion.

As a result of the deal, Leo will change its name to Chuck E. Cheese Brands Inc. The company will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CEC.

Besides Chuck E. Cheese, CEC owns, operates and franchises Peter Piper Pizza restaurants.

CEC would be the first restaurant company to enter the U.S. public markets in four years – “or, in this case, re-enter,” Axios reported. Apollo took the company private in 2014 for $1.3 billion and was unsuccessful in selling it in 2017. It’s keeping a 51% stake in the new company.

Leo Holdings chairman and CEO Lyndon Lea said in a statement that it secured “an extremely attractive acquisition” in CEC, which he said is “a part of Americana.”

CEC CEO Tom Leverton and CFO Jim Howell will continue to run the business. Lea will join the company’s board as co-chairman with Andrew Jhawar of Apollo.

Kirkland advises Nesco on $1.1B combo with SPAC Capitol IV

Kirkland & Ellis said it advised Energy Capital Partners-backed Nesco Holdings I Inc. on its combination with SPAC Capitol Investment Corp. IV, giving it an enterprise value of $1.1 billion and a chance to go public.

Corporate partners Bill Benitez and Cyril Jones and associate Rob Goodin led the Kirkland team. 

Specialists included capital markets partners Brooks Antweil and Christian Nagler and associate Mark Kam; debt finance partners Jason Kanner and Chad Nichols; and tax partner Mark Dundon and associate William Dong. 

Latham & Watkins and Graubard Miller counseled Capitol with lawyers in Washington, D.C., and New York. 

Daniel Blank at Morgan Stanley in New York provided financial advice to Nesco. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities were Capitol’s financial and capital markets advisors.

Nesco provides specialty rental equipment to the electric utility, telecom and rail markets with a national fleet of 4,000 units. The company generated an adjusted EBITDA margin of 49% last year and a 24% compound annual EBITDA growth rate over the past two years.

Capitol is the fourth public investment vehicle of chairman and CEO Mark Ein and president and CFO Dyson Dryden. The management team claims it has the best track record of public investment vehicle sponsors with all three of its prior investments consistently beating the broader markets with an average annualized return of 17%.

Ein said in a statement that Nesco is positioned to benefit from the increased demand for its equipment as the result of growth in infrastructure spending in each of its core end-markets, which include electric utility transmission and distribution, 5G deployment and rail development.

Nesco’s chairman will be William Plummer, who was CFO of United Rentals Inc. from 2008 until he left the company in January. Jeffrey Stoops, CEO of SBA Communications Corp. in Florida, will join the board, as will ECP founder Doug Kimmelman and partner Rahman D’Argenio and Nesco CEO Lee Jacobson, who will continue to run the company with CFO Bruce Heinemann.

ECP and its affiliates will keep 70% of their investment in the combined company.

The parties expect to pay down Nesco’s existing debt with the net cash proceeds from the transaction plus $400 million from a debt commitment agreement with J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank and Fifth Third Bank. 

Capitol also has secured commitments from lenders to provide a $350 million asset-based credit facility at closing, which is expected in the second quarter.

White & Case aids Delek on $965M Gulf of Mexico acquisition from Shell

White & Case said it advised Delek CT Investment, a unit of Israel’s Delek Group Ltd., on its acquisition of a 22.45% stake in the deepwater Caesar-Tonga oil field in the Gulf of Mexico from a unit of Royal Dutch Shell for $965 million.

Partners Steven Tredennick and Charlie Ofner led the deal out of Houston with a partner in the firm’s London office. Others who worked on the transaction were partners Chad McCormick, counsel Morgan Hollins and associates Peter Raish, Shawn Beloin, Joseph Castelli, Justin Synhorst and Janny Gandhi, all Houston.

Shell senior legal counsel Gary Walker in Houston handled the sale in-house.

The Caesar-Tonga project came online in 2012 and is considered one of the 10 largest deepwater resources in the Gulf of Mexico with a production horizon spanning 30 years or more. The field is operated by Anadarko Petroleum with Norway’s Equinor as another stakeholder. 

As part of the deal, Delek will sign a long-term off-take agreement with Shell affiliate Shell Trading (US) Co. to purchase oil produced from the field for 30 years. 

Delek is expanding internationally with a focus on high-potential opportunities in the North Sea and North America. Shell aims to sell $10 billion in non-core assets through 2020 to fund growth and share buybacks. 

Delek’s purchase has to clear regulators and right-of-first refusal by the field’s co-owners and is expected to close by the end of the third quarter.

“This transaction represents our continued focus on strategically positioning our deep-water business for growth and is consistent with our upstream strategy of pursuing competitive projects that deliver value in the 2020s and beyond,” Shell upstream director Andy Brown said in a statement.

V&E, Bracewell counsel on Crestwood’s $485M Jackalope purchase

Crestwood Equity Partners said last week that its affiliate Crestwood Niobrara acquired the 50% it didn’t own of Jackalope Gas Gathering Services in Wyoming from Williams Cos. for around $485 million. 

Investors in Crestwood Niobrara including Global Infrastructure Partners invested $235 million in preferred equity to help finance the deal.

Vinson & Elkins advised Crestwood, including partner Gillian Hobson with senior associate Daniel McEntee and associate Bo Shi.

Bracewell represented the investors. That team included partners Thomas M. Tomlinson and Lytch T. Gutmann.

Houston-based Crestwood, which is led by chairman, CEO and president Robert G. Phillips, said the transaction enables it to be one of the largest gas gathering and processing companies by volume in the high-growth Powder River Basin.

Crestwood expects the transaction to be leverage neutral to its balance sheet and add to distributable cash flow per unit this year with growing accretion after that based on current development activity by customer Chesapeake Energy.

PetroCap raises $300M for third fund

Dallas-based PetroCap Partners has raised more than $300 million for its third fund, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Its outside legal counsel couldn’t be determined by press time, but Thompson & Knight partners Wes Williams and Holt Foster advised it on its second fund, which amounted to $350 million fund. Neither Williams nor Foster responded to a request for comment.

The firm also has advised PetroCap on acquisitions and divestitures, including its purchase of Permian properties in 2011 as part of its Falcon E&P Opportunities Fund partnership with Highland Capital Management; and its sale of Permian properties with CP Exploration II to Resolute Natural Resources Southwest in 2017 for $160 million.

Haynes and Boone counsels Callon on $260M Permian sale

Haynes and Boone counseled Callon Petroleum on the sale of part of its oil and gas properties in the Midland Basin to an unnamed buyer for $260 million.

The agreement also provides for potential incremental cash payments of up to $60 million based upon future commodity prices with upside participation starting at $60 per barrel for West Texas Intermediate.

Haynes and Boone partner Kraig Grahmann and associate Matt Rountree counseled Callon. The firm has represented the company in the past on capital markets and financing transactions. Callon tapped Jefferies for financial advice.

Callon’s general counsel is Michol L. Ecklund, who joined the company in 2017. She previously was deputy general counsel for operations and commercial law at Marathon Oil Co., where she oversaw the legal team for global operations, acquisitions and divestitures. Before Marathon, the Harvard-trained lawyer practiced at Baker Botts.

Callon, which recently relocated to Houston from Natchez, Mississippi, sold the assets to pay down debt, retire its preferred stock, reduce its cash financing costs and focus on its three core areas in the Permian.

CEO and president Joe Gatto said in a statement that the company is driving enhanced capital efficiency by monetizing lower margin, non-core properties that haven’t competed for capital on a sustained basis. “We are actively optimizing our operations, which we believe will reduce capital intensity and increase returns on capital for our shareholders,” he said.

The divestiture involves the company’s Ranger operating area in the southern Midland Basin. It includes 9,850 net Wolfcamp acres (66% working interest), 80 producing horizontal wells that have been drilled since 2012 and 70 net, delineated locations. The properties produced 4,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in February, but the company didn’t plan any activity in the area for this year.

Callon also said it completed a strategic trade in the first quarter that expanded its contiguous position in northwest Howard County. The trade resulted in a net increase of 167 net acres to Callon’s Midland Basin leasehold position and generated $14 million in cash proceeds.

Shearman, Latham advise on $200M Layne Water funding

Post Oak Energy Capital and Genesis Park announced that they led a $200 million equity commitment to Layne Water Midstream Holdings, or LWM.

Post Oak and Genesis Park acquired LWM from Granite Construction with an additional commitment to continue to fund the company’s growth. LWM’s management team invested alongside Post Oak and Genesis Park.

Shearman & Sterling partner Sarah McLean in Houston represented Post Oak and Genesis Park with team members Todd Lowther, Monica Raspino and Devon Yamauchi.

Counseling LWM’s management team were Houston Latham & Watkins partners Thomas Brandt and Ryan Maierson, associate Samantha Seley and Rebecca Kendall and tax partner Bryant Lee.

LWM, which is based in The Woodlands and in Midland, is a water midstream business providing upstream oil and gas companies with water sourcing, gathering, disposal and recycling infrastructure and services in the Delaware and Midland Basins. It’s led by Michael Anderson.

The company began as a unit of Layne Christensen Co., a 136-year-old water management, infrastructure and drilling company that was acquired by Granite last year for $536 million.

LWM began operations in the Delaware Basin in 2017 and has grown its water infrastructure to more than one million barrels per day of water sourcing, gathering and disposal capacity that is online, under construction and in various stages of the permitting process.

The company also formed water infrastructure partnerships with the State of Texas General Land Office on its 88,000 acre position in Reeves and Culberson counties and with the State of Texas University Lands organization on its 160,000 acre position in Loving, Ward and Winkler counties. 

Frost Cochran led the deal from Houston-based Post Oak, which has upstream investments in the Permian and is building out crude infrastructure at portfolio company Oryx Midstream Services.

Paul Hobby led the deal from Genesis Park, a Houston lower middle market buyout firm founded in 1999. That firm focuses on investments in the southern U.S., including IT, software, energy services, telecommunications, financial and healthcare industries. 

Cooley advises LiveOak on raising $105M for second fund

Austin venture capital firm LiveOak Venture Partners has raised $105 million for its second fund from an expanded institutional limited partnership base.

Cooley represented LiveOak with a team led by special counsel Casey Schulte, who lists his office as being in Palo Alto but lives in Austin.

LiveOak was founded by former Austin Ventures principals Ben Scott, Krishna Srinivasan and Venu Shamapant. The firm closed its first fund in 2014 at $109 million.

The firm said the second fund will continue its strategy of partnering with Texas-based entrepreneurs to create “world-class category leaders.” It’s already made six investments, including Austin startups Eventador, Osano and Rollick and Dallas-based AmplifAI. “Texas is exploding with opportunity,” Srinivasan said in a statement. 

The partners claim to have collectively created more than $2 billion in enterprise value across a spectrum of investments. The firm has led or co-led 24 investments, including Digital Pharmacist, which was acquired by K1 Investment Management for more than $100 million; and Opcity, which was acquired by News Corp for $210 million.

Other investments include CS Disco, which recently raised $83 million, and OJO Labs, which recently raised $45 million. It’s also invested in TrustRadius, Infocyte and Mavenir.

The fund’s focus will still be on first institutional funding for startups headquartered in Texas’ four largest tech hubs: Austin, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. Initial investments range from $2 million to $4 million and scale up to $10 million over the full company life cycle, the firm said.

T&K counsels Dorchester on $43.8M acquisition

Thompson & Knight counseled Dorchester Minerals on acquiring oil and gas mineral, royalty and net profit interests from H. Huffman & Co., the Buffalo Co. and Huffman Oil Co. for $43.8 million.

Partner Jesse Betts led the deal team with assistance from Todd D. Keator, Stephen W. Grant, Jr., Jason P. Loden, Anthony J. Campiti, Gaye White Lentz, James C. Morriss III, Angela Herrington, Tonya Maksimenko and Kathleen Gerber. 

McAfee & Taft in Oklahoma City counseled Huffman.

Dallas-based Dorchester is a publicly traded limited partnership that commenced operations in 2003 when it combined Dorchester Hugoton, Republic Royalty Co. and Spinnaker Royalty Co. It’s led by chairman and CEO Casey McManemin.

Locke Lord aids Pinnacle II on Energy Spectrum funding

Pinnacle Midstream II said it attracted a “significant” equity capital commitment from management and Energy Spectrum Partners VIII. It didn’t disclose terms.

Locke Lord counseled Pinnacle II, including Eric Larson, Bill Swanstrom, Freddy Feldman and Stefano Wach. Jackson Walker’s Dallas office represented Energy Spectrum, including lead partner Jeff Sone with assistance from partner Pete Hyndman.

Headquartered in Houston, Pinnacle II focuses on the development of energy midstream infrastructure for oil and gas producers in various basins across North America. 

The commitment will be used to pursue organic greenfield projects, strategic producer partnerships and acquisition opportunities with a focus on Texas and the surrounding states.

T. Boone Pickens’ Dallas-based private equity fund, BP Energy Partners, backed the first Pinnacle, which was sold to I Squared Capital through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund II in 2017. 

Pinnacle is led by founder and CEO J. Greg Sargent, CFO Jason Tanous, COO Michael Hillerman and chief commercial officer Drew Ward.

Dallas-based Energy Spectrum is led by managing partner Jim Benson. It raised more than $867 million for its eighth fund out of a $1.3 billion target, according to a recent SEC filing. It’s raised $4.4 billion since its founding in 1995.

Starwood buys two power plants from Calpine

Energy Capital Partners-owned Calpine sold two power plants to Starwood Energy Group Global for an undisclosed sum.

King & Spalding advised Starwood and White & Case counseled Calpine but both with attorneys outside of Texas.

Calpine’s chief legal officer is W. Thaddeus Miller, who joined the company in 2008. Last year he was named executive vice chairman of Calpine’s board. 

The St. John’s School of Law graduate previously was chief legal officer of Texas Genco Inc., a consultant to private equity firm TPG and chief legal officer of Orion Power. He also was an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard.

The plants include the Garrison Energy Center, a 325 megawatt combined cycle plant in Dover, Delaware, and RockGen Energy Center, a 503 megawatt peaker in Madison, Wisconsin.  

The parties expect to close the deal in mid-2019 if it clears regulators.

Starwood CEO Himanshu Saxena said the plants represent a combination of scale and risk-mitigation and complement the firm’s existing generation investments. 

Starwood Energy Group Global focuses on energy infrastructure investments. It’s raised more than $3 billion in equity capital and has executed transactions totaling more than $7 billion in enterprise value, including $2.2 billion related to the development and construction of renewable assets such as wind farms, solar farms and biomass power plants. 

Kirkland advises Maverick Natural Resources on acquisition

Kirkland & Ellis said it advised EIG Global Energy Partners-backed Maverick Natural Resources on its acquisition of producing properties in the Overton field in East Texas from unnamed sellers for an undisclosed sum.

The team was led by corporate partner Chris Heasley and associate Fraser Wayne. Others were debt finance partner Mary Kogut Brawley and associate Laura Bielinski; environmental transactions partner Jonathan Kidwell; and tax partner Mark Dundon and associate Ryan Phelps.

The sellers had in-house counsel and also used Nexus Ventures, including founder Sargon Daniel, who previously was a shareholder at Winstead in Dallas.

The acquisition, Maverick’s first, includes 7,600 net acres and 2,700 net barrels of oil equivalent per day, 28% of which is liquids. Maverick operates the field and has purchased the remaining 50 percent non-operated working interest.

Maverick CEO Chris Heinson said in a statement that the newly formed Houston-based company has restructured labor, shut-in uneconomic wells and initiated a 30-rig workover program on the properties. “We are now focused on applying automation and technology to further improve efficiency,” he said.

CFO John Brawley said the company is repositioning its portfolio, acquiring new properties and market testing certain non-core assets for divestiture. He added that the company also has a new $500 million reserve-based lending facility.

T&K represents BEXP general partner on fund formation

Thompson & Knight said it advised Brigham Exploration Co. on the closing of an undisclosed amount of equity commitments from institutional and private investors to BEXP I LP. Company founders also participated.

The deal team included Michael Titens, Dean Hinderliter, Roger Aksamit, James McKellar, Brandon Bloom, Jason Loden, Mitch Gibbons and Minator Azemi.

Founded by Ben “Bud” Brigham, BEXP is focused on acquiring and managing non-operated working interests in the Midland and Delaware Basins. It began assembling its team and acquiring those interests in 2017.  

Bud Brigham previously founded Brigham Exploration, which was purchased by Statoil in 2011 for $4.7 billion; Brigham Resources, which was sold to Diamondback Energy for $2.6 billion; Brigham Minerals, one of the largest mineral & royalty companies in the U.S.; and Atlas Sand, which operates two sand mines in the Permian Basin.

CAPITAL MARKETS

Baker Botts aids purchasers on $600M Crestwood notes offering

Baker Botts said it advised the initial purchasers on an upsized notes offering of $600 million by Crestwood Equity affiliate Crestwood Midstream Partners. 

The proceeds will repay part of the outstanding borrowings under the entity’s revolving credit facility, which includes $250 million of borrowings that were used to fund the Jackalope acquisition (see Crestwood item above).

The lawyers in the group were partner Mollie Duckworth in Austin, partner Josh Davidson in Houston, senior associate Jennifer Wu in Austin and associates Sunil Jamal, Leuan List and Jack Chadderdon, all of Houston. The finance team included partner Daniel Tristan and special counsel Lyman Paden, both of Houston.

The deal involves 5.625% senior notes due 2027 in a Rule 144A offering that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. It was upsized from the originally proposed $500 million offering. 

The notes are guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by all of Crestwood Midstream’s units that guarantee its existing notes and the indebtedness under its revolver.

The book-running managers were Wells Fargo Securities, Citigroup Global Markets, J.P. Morgan Securities, Barclays Capital, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, RBC Capital Markets and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.

Latham aids Waste Connections on $500M notes offering

Latham & Watkins said it aided Waste Connections Inc. on its $500 million senior notes offering.

Houston partner John Greer led the team with associates Ryan Lynch, Blake Berkey and Erin Lee. 

The underwriters, which included BofA Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, MUFG and Wells Fargo Securities, used Simpson Thacher & Bartlett lawyers outside of Texas.

The offering involves 3.50% senior notes due 2029 at a price to the public of 99.738% of their face value. 

The company expects the net proceeds of $494 million will be used to repay part of its borrowings outstanding under its credit agreement and for general corporate purposes.

UPDATE:

Hunton Andrews Kurth caught up with The Lawbook with three deals it worked on over the last several months that closed recently. 

One was advising the initial purchasers of a $2.5 billion unsecured debt/senior notes offering last month by Midwest Connector Capital Co. The leads were partners Jordan Hirsch and Mike O’Leary in Houston. Latham & Watkins was counsel to the other parties.

The other two transactions were counseling BankFirst Capital Corp. on its purchase of FNB Bancshares of Central Alabama Inc. for $47.35 million (partner Beth A. Whitaker in Dallas led the HuntonAK team while Jones Walker assisted FNB); and U.S. Energy Partners on its sale to Marble Arch for an undisclosed sum (Dallas partner Steven L. Leshin was the lead while Kirkland & Ellis assisted the other parties).

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Brigham Minerals, the Warburg Pincus- and Yorktown Partners-backed company that The Lawbook previously reported had filed for an IPO, said in an SEC filing that it hopes to sell 13.5 million shares at $15 to $18 per share. The Austin-based owner of oil and gas mineral royalty interests would have an initial market cap of $785 million at the pricing midpoint. Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs are the lead underwriters. As we previously reported, Douglas E. McWilliams and Thomas G. Zentner at Vinson & Elkins are advising the company and David J. Miller at Latham & Watkins is assisting the underwriters.

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