Jack represents corporate, partnership and LLC debtors, trustees, and creditor committees in workouts, change-of-control transactions and complex Chapter 11 reorganizations.

Prior to joining McDermott Will & Schulte, Jack clerked for the Hon. Thomas J. Catliota in the bankruptcy court for the District of Maryland. Jack also clerked for the Hon. Paul M. Bowman in the Circuit Court for Kent County, Maryland.

Jack’s pro bono practice includes helping people successfully prosecute asylum claims. During law school, Jack served as an articles editor for the Journal of Health Care Law and Policy.

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• Member of team that represented liquidating trustee in adversary proceedings and collection matters*
• Represented manufacturer in state court litigation arising from breach of warranties claim*
• Represented judgment creditor and successfully collected over $2 million*
• Represented mortgage company in various bankruptcy cases*
• Responsible for winding down Brazilian subsidiary of large agricultural supply cooperative*

*Matter handled prior to joining the firm.

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Michael has particular skill in advising clients in the natural resources, oil and gas, and energy sectors.  He has also acted in arbitrations in the, financial, transportation, food & beverage, life sciences and telecoms/tech sectors. His work is located all around the world and he has a wealth of experience of disputes from the CIS and Central Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the Far East. Michael’s client base is fully international, ranging from multinational corporations and financial institutions to wealthy private individuals.

Michael appears as an advocate at all stages of the arbitral process and has full rights of audience for civil matters before the English courts. Michael helps clients to avoid disputes or resolve them at an early stage, including through negotiation, mediation and expert determination.

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• Advised an Indonesian renewable energy company in relation to price renegotiation disputes arising under wind PPAs
• Advised a South East Asian NOC in relation to LNG price renegotiation dispute against a portfolio seller
• Represented an East European state in ICSID arbitrations (including pursuant to the Energy Charter Treaty) relating to an alleged expropriation of a hydropower project, a waste to energy project, and a television station, as well as in related ICC arbitrations pursuant to a hydropower Build Operate Transfer Concession Agreement*
• Acted for UAE based energy company in LCIA arbitrations against European energy major relating to a farm-in to a gas field PSC in Iraqi Kurdistan*
• Acted in gas price review arbitrations under the ICC rules relating to LNG and pipeline gas supplies to Northern Europe.*
• Acted for Indian turbine manufacturer in a joint venture dispute against a US energy company resolved by UNCITRAL arbitration*
• Acting for Indian turbine manufacturer in UNCITRAL proceedings against a US energy company*
• Acted for high net worth individual in a LCIA arbitration relating to mining assets in Ukraine*
• Acted for Italian steel mill in an ICC arbitration relating to the supply of defective steel*

Corporate and finance

• Acted for UK based healthcare services provider in LCIA arbitration against insurance company under a warranty and indemnity insurance policy relating to the sale of a portfolio of care homes.
• Acted for a Ukrainian party in US$1 billion LCIA arbitrations against joint venture partners, involving commencement of 23 related LCIA arbitrations relating to a complex corporate holding structure, applications to the Cypriot court for statutory relief, and to the US court for section 1782 discovery in support of foreign proceedings*
• Acted for Bahraini financial institution in a LCIA arbitration relating to the payment of deferred consideration under a share purchase agreement*
• Acted for a CIS private equity fund in a LCIA arbitration breach of warranty claim arising out of a share purchase agreement relating to a mail services provider*
• Acted for a Ukrainian agricultural conglomerate in a LCIA arbitration for breach of warranty and misrepresentation claims under a share purchase agreement*
• Acted for a CIS agricultural producer in a LCIA claim arising out of share purchase agreement relating to agricultural assets, including applications for injunctions in BVI and Cyprus*

General commercial

• Acted for individual in LCIA arbitration against leading hedge fund concerning alleged misuse of confidential information relating to commodities trading platform.
• Acted for high net worth individual in SIAC arbitration concerning mis-selling of cryptocurrency tokens.
• Acted for crypto coin issuer against leading coin exchange in SIAC arbitration relating to consequences of a threatened delisting.
• Acted for a Turkish textile producer in ad hoc investment treaty claim against an East African state for expropriation of production facilities
• Represented a US-based multinational restaurant brand in various LCIA arbitrations relating to franchises in Spain, Mexico, Greece and Cyprus, including successfully closing restaurants operating in breach of franchise agreements*
• Represented a multinational mobile telecommunications company against the former Albanian state-owned fixed-line operator in ICC arbitration proceedings relating to the payment of network interconnection charges*
• Acted for global pharmaceutical company in shareholder dispute with North African local partner relating to project to the construct production plant and conduct joint marketing of pharmaceutical products subject to ICC arbitration*
• Acted for a Thai manufacturing group in ICC arbitration seated in Singapore in a multi-billion dollar claim for breach of a joint venture in the brewing industry*

*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott

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• Represented Phalanx Impact Partners LLC in forming and establishing a US joint venture company with Vikram Solar and Das & Co. called VSK Energy LLC. The new company will invest up to $1.5 billion to develop a vertically integrated solar manufacturing operation in the United States, reducing US dependence on foreign suppliers who currently dominate the solar market
• Represented Crossbridge Energy Partners in its negotiation and execution of a professional services agreement with Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, LLC, a portfolio company owned by Global Clean Energy for services in support of the completion, commission and startup of the Bakersfield Renewable Fuels Project, which modifies and converts a dormant 500+ acre crude oil refinery into a renewable fuels refinery with the capacity to produce 210 million gallons of renewable diesel per year. The facility is expected to be vertically integrated to produce renewable diesel from various feedstocks, including Global Clean Energy’s patented proprietary fallow land crop varieties of camelina, as well as various non-petroleum renewable feedstocks, such as used cooking oil, soybean oil, distillers’ corn oil, and others
• Represented Trio Petroleum Corp., an oil and gas exploration and development company focused on strategic, high-growth energy projects in California, in its $6 million initial public offering (IPO) of 2,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $3.00 per share
• Represented Aiga Capital Partners LLC, an investor focused on investments in North America-based companies developing sustainable infrastructure assets, as lender, in the negotiation and documentation of a $13.3 million senior secured credit facility provided to Nexus Renewables Inc., a developer of renewable energy infrastructure projects with a focus on energy storage, in connection with the construction of a 10 MWdc / 40MWh battery storage project to be developed and constructed in Fairfield, California
• Represented Arbor Renewables LLC as counsel in the purchase of assets from Arbor Chemicals, LLC, a portfolio company of Junction Capital Partners, that are used in the marketing and producing by tolling of crude tall oil and certain associated derivatives in various locations throughout the United States
• Represented Recapture in its completion of the Terra Nova 1 project, part of Recapture’s 3-year $100 million project development strategy in Northern Argentina. The Terra Nova 1 Project is a utility-scale bio-enhanced afforestation carbon project development. This project represents a breakthrough in carbon capture and delivers high-impact, scalable and nature-based carbon removal
• Represented Nel Hydrogen US, a subsidiary of Norwegian company Nel ASA, as US counsel in its entrance into a joint development agreement with General Motors to help accelerate industrialization of Nel’s proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer platform and collectively enable production of more cost competitive sources of renewable hydrogen
• Represented an international infrastructure fund in its $252 million acquisition from a publicly traded international infrastructure fund and asset manager of 50% of the membership interests of a holding company that owns hydroelectric businesses and a transmission business located in North Carolina and Tennessee
• Represented Beam Suntory Inc. in the execution of a Renewable Energy Services Agreement with 3Rivers Energy Partners for the development of a renewable natural gas anaerobic digestion facility adjacent to the Jim Beam distillery in Boston, Kentucky in a projected $400 million expansion. The biogas development project will use still from the whiskey distillery process as feedstock for the production of renewable natural gas, which will then power the expanded distillery and assist Beam Suntory in achieving its goal to cut its company wide greenhouse gas emission and water usage in half by 2030
• Represented Crossbridge Energy Partners in its negotiation and execution of a professional services agreement with Strategic Biofuels and Louisiana Green Fuels, LLC for early-stage executive management, operations and maintenance services at a forestry waste to renewable diesel refinery and related carbon capture facility in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
• Represented Lafayette Energy Corp, a newly formed private equity portfolio company, in its acquisition of a package of over 100 oil and gas leases in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, from a private oil and gas minerals company for an undisclosed combination of cash and stock
• Represented TWTG, an industrial internet of things products and service provider focused on the oil and gas industry, in its formation of TWTG US LLC, a new subsidiary focused on the US energy market
• Represented Recapture, a developer of carbon capture projects through reforestation, in the development of its pilot project in Argentina and establishment of its related US holding company
• Represented Irradiant Partners, LP, an investment manager focused on liquid credit and renewable private equity and credit, in the offering of $100 million in convertible debt capital to Bioenergy Development Group Holdco, LLC, a developer of renewable natural gas from anaerobic digestion
• Represented Trio Petroleum Corp, a newly formed private equity portfolio company, in its acquisition of undeveloped oil and gas assets in the Monterey Basin in California from a private exploration and production company for an undisclosed combination of cash and stock
• Advised Align Renewable Natural Gas, a joint venture between Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods, on RNG supply and offtake agreements for its RNG production facility in Clinton, North Carolina*
• Advised a public, mid-Atlantic based energy company on its commercial agreements related to development of compressed natural gas and related green energy attributes (RINs)*
• Advised the aviation-focused division of a major, integrated global oil and gas company on its $30 million joint venture and related commercial agreements with a bioenergy development company to develop sustainable aviation fuel*
• Represented Royal Vopak and BlackRock’s Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund in the formation of a joint venture, Vopak Industrial Infrastructure Americas, LLC, and then in VIIA’s subsequent purchase of three of The Dow Chemical Company’s chemical storage terminals on the US Gulf Coast for $620 million*
• Represented Ridgemont Equity Partners in its joint venture investment with Denham Capital Management and the Ontario Power Generation Inc. Pension Plan to back White Water Midstream, MPLX LP and West Texas Gas, Inc. to provide natural gas liquids (NGLs) takeaway capacity from MPLX and WTG gas processing plants in the Permian Basin to the NGL fractionation hub in Sweeny, TX*
• Represented Evolve Transition Infrastructure LP in its sale of wellbores and other associated assets located in Gonzales, DeWitt, Dimmit and Zavala Counties in South Texas*
• Represented Stakeholder Midstream in its acquisition of certain midstream gas gathering and processing assets in Yoakum County, Texas from Santa Fe Midstream*
• Represented Stakeholder Midstream in its acquisition of a crude oil gathering system and gas gathering pipeline in Yoakum County, Texas from Walsh Petroleum, Inc. and Burk Royalty Co. Ltd.*
• Represented the downstream business unit of a major global integrated oil company in the structuring of and entering into an acquisition financing and related jet fuel supply agreement with an airport operator at the Vancouver International Airport*
• Represented client in the acquisition of a natural gas and liquids gathering and transportation business in North Texas through the acquisition of the equity interests of the seller’s subsidiaries holding these assets*
• Served as project company counsel for a joint venture with Petroamazonas (a state-owned oil and gas company in Ecuador) and various power project developers and product suppliers for the development of three power plants in Ecuador*
• Represented a global investment bank’s private equity arm in a preferred debt and warrant investment of $150 million (with the ability to invest up to $320 million over the term of the investment) alongside an infrastructure focused private equity firm in a holding company to acquire existing regulated water and wastewater treatment facilities and for future similar acquisitions*
• Represented a private equity firm/family office fund in the development of its form documentation for the divestiture of mineral and royalty interests, and advised on various of this fund’s dispositions of mineral and royalty interests in the Permian Basin, the Bakken and the Powder River Basin*
• Represented clients DKRW Energy Partners LLC and Sculptor Domestic Partners, L.P. in certain transactions related to the recapitalization and sale of their respective investment in Mexico Pacific Limited, the owner of an LNG export facility in Puerto Libertad, Mexico, with an energy and infrastructure private equity firm as the buyer and joint venture partner*
• Represented a large independent exploration and production company in the conveyance of a water gathering system, water treatment facilities and fresh water wells in the Permian Basin to its midstream affiliates and the drafting and negotiation of the related produced water gathering agreement and water distribution services agreement*
• Represented SH 130 Holdings LLC, the project company for a toll road in Central Texas, in connection with its corporate documents and concession agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation*
• Represented a power project developer in its development and financing of two power generation plants in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Córdoba, Argentina, and related negotiation of power purchase agreements with CAMMESA (the Argentine administrator of the wholesale electricity market)*
• Represented a multilateral development bank in connection with a bankability review and analysis of commercial contracts of SIEPAC, an interconnection of power grids of six Central American countries*
• Represented ProPetro Holding Corp. in connection with its $400 million acquisition of the pressure pumping assets of, and the entrance into a long-term services agreement with, Pioneer Natural Resources Company*
• Served as counsel to The San Jose Water Company on its bid to acquire an interest in the project company, and negotiate a long-term operation and maintenance agreement with the project company, for the Rio Vista Pipeline Project, a 147-mile water pipeline project being procured by the San Antonio Water System*
• Served as lead counsel for a major global energy company in an extensive internal review and summary of all project documents and commercial agreements relating to the company’s entire wind energy project portfolio in the United States, including wind energy projects in Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Texas*
• Represented the special committee of DCP Midstream, LP in its securing of an option to acquire up to a 30 percent ownership interest (representing a potential capital investment of approximately $400 million) in two 150,000 bpd natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionators to be constructed within Phillips 66’s Sweeney Hub in Old Ocean, Texas*
• Represented the world’s largest oil trading company in its $600 million acquisition of the global oil liquids business of a global supply chain manager of energy, power and gas products*
• Represented a publicly traded midstream master limited partnership in the negotiation and execution of an amended and restated gas gathering agreement for the gathering and processing of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale formations with a private oil and gas exploration and production company*
• Represented a private midstream energy company in the sale of a natural gas pipeline, associated facilities and related real property interests in West Virginia to a private oil and gas exploration and production company*
• Represented a private midstream energy company in the negotiation and execution of a gas gathering agreement for the gathering and processing of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation with a publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company*
• Represented Enterprise Products Partners L.P. in its purchase of the midstream business and assets of Azure Midstream Partners, L.P. and its operating subsidiaries in East Texas and North Louisiana*
• Represented Tokyo Gas America Ltd. in its 30% strategic equity investment into Castleton Resources LLC, a subsidiary of Castleton Commodities International LLC which owns upstream and midstream assets in East Texas and Louisiana*
• Represented a power project developer in the $20 million sale to an energy and infrastructure focused hedge fund of a project company owning a combined-cycle natural gas-fired generation facility located in Pennsylvania*
• Represented a newly formed private equity firm in its initial acquisition; a purchase of the equity interests of a transmix refinery in Indiana and a related financing through a Supply and Offtake Agreement*
• Represented an independent oil and gas company in its $130 million acquisition of an overriding royalty interest in West Texas acreage*
• Represented Sanchez Energy Corp. in the $44 million sale of its 50% interest in a joint-venture pipeline company to Sanchez Production Partners LP*
• Represented a G2X Energy in its $680 million joint-venture investment with OCI into a greenfield methanol production facility in Beaumont, Texas*
• Represented a major global energy company in its sale of a majority ownership stake in a natural gas processing plant in Mississippi*
• Completed a six-month in-house secondment, resident in the company’s Cairo, Egypt and Amsterdam, The Netherlands offices, with an Egyptian holding company, managing divestitures of portfolio companies in Cambodia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Malta and the British Virgin Islands*
• Represented a public French seismic and geophysical technology company in its acquisition of US and Canadian seismic data and related assets from a private equity backed portfolio company*
• Represented EP Energy in the $25 million sale of its two primary onshore blocks in Egypt’s Western Desert*
• Represented EP Energy in its $800 million divestiture of US domestic oil and gas producing assets from various basins*
• Represented EP Energy in its $220 million divestiture of US domestic oil and gas producing assets in the Arkoma region*
• Represented EP Energy in its $100 million divestiture of offshore Gulf of Mexico oil and gas producing assets*
• Represented a private equity backed portfolio company in a $50 million acquisition of oil & gas assets in northeast Texas*
• Represented Memorial Production Partners LP in its $170 million initial public offering*

*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.

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Jibin represents clients in the acquisition and sale of energy, manufacturing, technology and service-related companies, and negotiating and securing financing. He has experience preparing and negotiating purchase and sale agreements (asset and equity), joint venture agreements, joint operating agreements, partnership agreements, limited liability company agreements, transportation and gathering agreements, employment and consulting agreements, credit and security agreements and master service agreements.

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• Represented a major international exploration and production company in its dispositions of its JV interest for US $128 million*
• Represented an automotive retailing solutions company in its US $120 million acquisition of a company engaged in the business of e-mail marketing services and newsletter management*
• Represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund in the US $44 million sale of its oil and gas assets in the Appalachian basin to a strategic buyer*
• Represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund in the US $18 million sale of its oil and gas assets in the Appalachian basin to a strategic buyer*
• Represented a global distressed investment and liquidation firm in the acquisition of the assets of and recapitalization of, a premier fixture and equipment liquidation company*
• Represented an independent oil and gas company of its disposition of its oil and gas assets in Nacogdoches County, Texas for US $28 million to a strategic buyer*
• Represented a major international exploration and production company in its disposition of its East Texas upstream assets for US$44 million*
• Represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund in the US $26 million sale of its oil and gas assets in Texas*
• Represented various independent oil and gas companies in the US $18 million divesture of their non-operated oil and gas assets in Texas and New Mexico*
• Represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund in its US $18 million purchase of a company that distributes industrial engineered products for customers in the refining, petrochemical, engineering, construction and oil and gas industries*
• Represented an industrial component manufacturer doing business in the US and Canada in its US $50 million acquisition by a portfolio company of a UK private equity firm*
• Represented an automotive retailing solutions company in its US $32 million acquisition of a company engaged in the business of data mining and business intelligence for the automobile industry*
• Represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund in its US $36 million acquisition of a company that provides credentialing services in the healthcare industry*
• Represented an oil field services company in its US $14 million acquisition of a company engaged in the well testing/flow-back business*
• Represented a valve repair and distribution company servicing the refining, petrochemical and pipeline industries in its US $11 million acquisition of a valve engineering company*
• Represented a private equity fund in its US $37 million platform acquisition of a company that provides groundwater solutions including the sale, rental, removal and abandonment of dewatering and/or pumping equipment and turnkey construction dewatering services*
• Represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund in its US $22 million acquisition of a company that distributes refractory materials, performing refractory installations and refractory consulting*
• Represented a major Texas-based manufacturing company in the US $27 million acquisition of another manufacturing company*
• Represented a portfolio company of a private equity firm in its US $25 million purchase of a company selling industrial hoses, power transmission belts, valves, pumps and fittings*
• Represented an energy software company in its US $13 million acquisition by a Fortune 500 Company*
• Represented a US steel distribution company in its US $20 million acquisition of a steel fabricator and distributor operating in the Republic of Colombia*

Corporate Finance and Venture Capital

• Represented an independent oil and gas company in obtaining a US $500 million loan from a major national bank*
• Represented an independent oil and gas operator in obtaining a US $150 million loan from a major national bank*
• Represented a startup medical device company in a US$3.1million private placement
• Represented a commercial shopping center investor in a US $6.1million private placement for the purchase of a shopping center in Houston*

Regulatory

• Successfully represented a Chinese investment consortium before CFIUS in its US $1.2 billion acquisition of oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin*
• Successfully represented a Chinese investment consortium before CFIUS in its US $315 million acquisition of oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin*
• Successfully represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund before CFIUS in its US $160 million divesture of oil and gas assets*

*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.

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Jack has experience representing oil and gas production companies in connection with the acquisition of oil and gas properties. Jack also represents banks in connection with production payment acquisition and financing, and independent oil companies in the sale of overriding royalty interests to qualified investment buyers.

Jack has significant experience handling international transactions, including representing drilling companies in connection with sales of drilling rigs in Brazil, Canada and Greece, and representing power producers with the development and financing of power projects in Latin America. He also represented state oil companies and Western and Russian companies in connection with negotiations for development of Caspian Sea oil fields.

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• Represented Kayne Anderson Funds in connection with Silver Hill sale of Outrigger pipeline owning entities to Targa*
• Represented ONGC (Overseas branch of the National Oil Company of India) in acquisition (for itself) and financing (For Rosneft) of two separate 20 percent interests in US $12 billion Sakhalin field exploration and production project with ExxonMobil as the operator*
• Represented LUKOIL in connection with joint venture with ConocoPhillips covering 14 exploration and production licenses in Western Siberia and the development, financing, construction and operation of an Arctic Oil Terminal with value in excess of US $4 billion*
• Represented Kayne Anderson Funds in sale of Silver Hill to RSP for value in excess of US $2 billion dollars*
• Represented Warburg Pincus Funds in connection with funding management team for oil and gas exploration*
• Represented Kayne Anderson Funds in connection with funding numerous management teams for oil and gas exploration, midstream infrastructure acquisition and development, and mineral and royalty acquisitions*
• Represented a joint venture company between Kayne Anderson Funds and Warburg Pincus Funds for formation of Terra Energy Partners and its US $910 million acquisition of rocky mountain assets of WPX*
• Represented an independent oil and gas company in connection with gathering and processing agreements for significant own production and processing plant volumes*
• Represented a privately held exploration and production company with subsidiary operations in Peru in the US $1 billion sale of the company to a consortium of foreign national oil companies*
• Represented Matlin Patterson Global Advisers in connection with evaluation of various investment opportunities in distressed oil and gas exploration companies and in connection with joint venture investment in Stone Mountain Resources, a Canadian E&P company with assets in the Horn River Shale Basin*
• Represented ERG Resources in Chapter 11 sale of assets*
• Represented a Houston-based E&P company with acquisition of oil and gas leases for development of Mississippian Shale in Oklahoma*
• Represented an E&P company in the disposition of undeveloped Niobrara Shale assets*
• Represented Newton Energy Partners in its acquisition of oil and gas properties in Canada*
• Represented a domestic E&P company in the acquisition of Paradox Basin Properties*
• Represented a domestic oil and gas company with more than 2.6 trillion cfe of natural gas reserves in the US $540 million sale of its oil, natural gas and coal-bed methane assets in two states to a pair of publicly traded purchasers*
• Represented a private equity fund in connection with various structured, preferred return investments up to US$65 million each in domestic oil and gas assets, including the engagement of management teams to operate the assets*
• Represented an energy services company in the proposed sale of substantially all of its assets in various eastern states to a public company*
• Represented Oasis Petroleum Management LLC’s management team in connection with the IPO for the company*
• Represented several portfolio companies of energy private equity fund in the acquisition of oil and gas properties in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and other states*
• Represented several portfolio companies of energy private equity fund in the sale of oil and gas properties in Texas*
• Represented private domestic exploration companies in farmouts, exploration agreements, joint ventures, joint seismic survey, drilling contracts and other ventures affecting oil and gas properties in the continental US*
• Represented management teams in various private equity investments in domestic and international oil and gas assets with EnCap, Quantum and Jefferies funds*
• Represent domestic exploration and production companies in obtaining borrowing base revolving credit facilities*
• Represented Leor Energy in its sale of US oil and gas leases in Texas to EnCana USA*
• Represented a private equity fund in connection with hydrocarbon exploration joint venture in Texas*
• Represented an Oasis Petroleum North America LLC in connection with the acquisition of producing properties in Midwest and financing of acquisition*
• Represented Kayne Anderson in various private investments in domestic oil and gas assets*
• Represented a private company in negotiating Mineral Development Agreement with Native American Indian Tribe and joint venture with independent energy company for field exploration and development
• Represented Cavallo Energy in its sale of Texas oil and gas leases to Linn Energy
• Represented a Latin American client in sale of its drilling rig and service business to US public company*
• Represented LUKOIL in joint venture with ConocoPhillips to develop licenses in Russia*
• Represented a Spanish company in connection with the acquisition of a power project and associated LNG facilities in Puerto Rico from Enron bankruptcy estate*
• Represented a Canadian company in connection with the negotiation of the acquisition of several interstate natural gas pipelines from Enron Bankruptcy estate*
• Represented a US soda ash mining company and a special committee of the board of directors in its merger with a foreign owned purchaser*
• Represented an Indian exploration and production company in connection with its acquisition of and financing related to bids to acquire petroleum assets internationally*
• Represented an energy company in connection with the acquisition and subsequent disposition of pipeline, gathering systems and other midstream assets in Texas*
• Represented a Western company to negotiate concession of national trunklines in Kazakhstan*

*Matter handled prior to joining the firm.

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• Represented Monumental Sports & Entertainment in connection with a minority investment by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA)
• Represented A.M. Castle & Co. in its sale to MiddleGround Capital
• Represented EIV Capital, LLC in its equity commitment to Penrose Midstream Partners, LLC
• Represented Argo Blockchain plc (LSE: ARB; NASDAQ: ARBK) in two strategic transactions: a subsidiary sale of its Helios facility in Dickens County, Texas to Galaxy Digital Holdings, Ltd. for $65 million, and the refinancing of its asset-backed loans with a new, $35 million asset-backed loan from Galaxy Digital Holdings, Ltd.
• Represented Prime Therapeutics LLC in connection with its $1.35 billion acquisition of Magellan Rx Management from Centene Corporation
• Represented Wells Enterprises, Inc. in its sale to the Ferrero Group
• Represented Monumental Sports & Entertainment in connection with a minority investment by former eBay President, Jeff Skoll
• Represented H.I.G. Capital in the sale of its portfolio company, Lipari Foods, to an affiliate of Littlejohn & Co., LLC
• Represented Urgo Hotels & Resorts in its definitive agreement with Hersha Hospitality Management (HHM) to become a wholly owned subsidiary of HHM
• Represented leading Chicago-based grocery retailer, Tony’s Fresh Market, in its sale to Apollo Funds

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• Assisted private equity clients in obtaining merger control approval by the European Commission and several national competition authorities
• Assisted a client in obtaining suitable purchaser approval from the European Commission in the framework of divestment obligations imposed on other companies in order to obtain merger clearance
• Assisting a client in acquiring joint control over certain software applications and obtaining merger clearance from the European Commission
• Assisting government owned or funded entities in negotiations in the framework of InvestEU initiatives
• Assisting clients in competition compliant licensing and Standard Essential Patents discussions
• Assisted several clients in setting up and implementing regional or global competition compliance systems, carrying out internal investigations, counseling on whether to file for immunity/leniency, and (co)representing these clients before several competition authorities
• Assisted several governments and government entities in developing COVID-19 related state aid initiatives, successfully notifying at and obtaining state aid clearance from the European Commission including assisting those governments in subsequent European Commission state aid compliance audits
• Assisted a company in abuse of dominant position complaint proceedings before the European Commission, extracting commitments from the dominant company allowing our client to obtain access to an energy market in the European Union*
• Assisted companies in the healthcare industry during cartel and abuse of dominance investigations by national competition authorities, including dawn raids

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• IFLR 1000 2022, Rising Star, Competition
• Who’s Who Legal, Global Leader, Competition – State Aid, 2023
• Benchmark Litigation 2020, Competition/ Antitrust, Belgium

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During law school, Philip was an intern to Judge Leonard D. Wexler for the US District Court of the Eastern District of New York, and also served as an executive articles editor for the New York University School of Law Annual Survey of American Law.

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