A.J. Ericksen updated his LinkedIn bio this week showing that he has moved his energy corporate transactions practice from Baker Botts to White & Case.
Ericksen advises companies, MLPs, private equity firms and institutional investors in M&A transactions and has significant experience in initial public offerings, Rule 144A offerings and other public and private offerings of equity and debt securities.
Ericksen graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in 2005 and joined Baker Botts, where he made partner in 2014. He is one of those highly-sought after corporate lawyers in their 40s. At White & Case, he will be teaming up again with Chad McCormick, who was in the same Baker Botts partner class as Ericksen.
Ericksen was busy in 2020, according to The Texas Lawbook’s Corporate Deal Tracker.
In August, he ran point on a $484 million equity exchange for Tennessee-based Delek US Holdings, co-led a $200 million private exchange offer for Indianapolis-based Calumet Specialty Products and advised CNX Midstream’s conflicts committee in a simplification transaction that resulted in the $357 million sale of its outstanding shares to Pittsburgh’s CNX Resources.
Earlier in the summer, Ericksen co-led the underwriters on a $500 million upsized offering of DCP Midstream senior notes.
In the second quarter of 2020, Ericksen guided Delek US through two dropdown transactions valued at $100 million and $48 million.
And at the beginning of the year, Ericksen was part of the Baker Botts deal team that represented Bristow Group in the financing of the Houston helicopter service provider’s all-stock combination with Era Group.