• 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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David also has experience representing businesses in corporate mergers and acquisitions (including healthcare transactions), and in the formation and ongoing administration of commercial and private trust companies.

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• Represented a leading private equity firm, as borrower, in connection with 6 complex single-asset senior and structured supplemental/subordinate mortgage loans totaling over $59 million encumbering multi-family properties throughout the U.S.
• Represented a leading private equity firm, as borrower, in connection with a $135 million mortgage loan encumbering 20 affordable housing communities located throughout the U.S.
• Represented a leading private equity firm in connection with the $95 million sale of a marquee high-rise office building in the Chicago area
• Represented a leading private equity investor in the $25 million complex sale of membership interests in a joint venture providing military housing to the U.S. Navy
• Represented a private equity firm in connection with the negotiation and documentation of a strategic series of sequenced sale/leaseback transactions involving 25 healthcare properties located throughout the U.S.
• Represented a leading private equity firm, as borrower, in connection with a $73.4 million mortgage loan encumbering a portfolio of three multi-family apartment communities in Texas, Kentucky, and Oregon
• Represented a leading private equity firm in connection with 2 complex single-asset mortgage loans totaling $30 million encumbering affordable housing communities in New Mexico
• Represented a private equity investor in the $162.5 million acquisition of a REIT, which owns a large, stabilized student housing community in Georgia (representation also included the negotiation of a $90 million related mortgage loan)
• Represented a private equity investor in the $95 million acquisition of a student housing community in California
• Represented a private equity investor, as borrower, in the $71 million mortgage financing of a student housing community in Bloomington, Indiana
• Represented a private equity firm, as borrower, in a strategic series of mortgage financings totaling over $81 million encumbering 10 industrial offsite storage assets located in California, Florida, Georgia and Texas
• Represented a private equity firm in the $137 million ground lease acquisition of a chemical manufacturing campus in West Virginia
• Represented a Pennsylvania hospital system with respect to all real estate aspects of its $5 billion sale to a leading managed care consortium
• Represented a private equity firm in connection with its roll-up sale of a $3.2 billion portfolio of 280 US select service hotels to a newly-formed investment fund comprised of sovereign wealth funds and other investors*
• Represented a middle-eastern sovereign wealth fund in its greater than $3 billion dollar stock and asset purchase (and numerous related mortgage financings) of an industrial portfolio with 55 million square feet of space*
• Represented a public REIT in its acquisition of a 75 manufactured home community portfolio valued in excess of $1.5 billion, together with more than $800 million of financing and preferred equity transactions*
• Represented a private equity firm in a series of acquisitions of 13 new-development multifamily properties with aggregate purchase price of approximately $1 billion*
• Represented a private equity firm in a series of portfolio and single-asset dispositions of more than 30 select service hotels with aggregate transaction value of approximately $1 billion*
• Represented a private equity firm in a series of portfolio and single-asset acquisitions (and related portfolio mortgage financings) of more than 30 manufactured housing communities*
• Represented a private equity firm in the $380 million first and second mortgage financing, master development arrangement and subsequent sale of a leading US ski resort*
• Represented a foreign institutional investor in its $500 million purchase (and related mortgage financing), $213 million purchase (and related mortgage financing), and $128 million purchase (and related mortgage financing) of full-service luxury hotels and resorts in New York, New York; Miami, Florida and Washington DC*
• Represented a public REIT in its CMBS financing related to greater than $500 million purchase and master lease with a specialty store chain for the sale/leaseback of 20 retail properties and 3 distribution/logistics facilities*
• Represented a public REIT in its $767 million acquisition and ground lease mortgage financing of a U.S. medical office portfolio
• Represented a private equity firm in the $2.1 billion asset purchase of a national restaurant chain with more than 700 locations (and a related $1.5 billion sale/leaseback transaction)*
• Represented the ownership group of a major league baseball team in its acquisition of several historic buildings in the immediate vicinity of the team’s stadium*
• Represented a private equity firm in its $180 million dollar sale of a master plan mixed-use community* Represented a private equity firm in its $248 million acquisition (and related mortgage financing) of an office building in Miami, Florida*
• Represented a private equity firm in its $87 million construction financing for development of a luxury condominium project located in Naples, Florida*
• Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition of a mixed-use office and full-service hotel and convention property in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania*
• Represented an institutional investor in structuring and selling its junior mezzanine loan secured by indirect membership interests in the owner of an iconic skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois*
• Represented several private equity firms and investment management firms in the negotiation of joint ventures with operating partners, and the related acquisitions and financings of various types of properties, including, without limitation, industrial/logistics, multifamily, hotel, data center, shopping center, office and medical office properties*

*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott

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In addition to leading various major tax, fraud and bribery investigations, Simon has recently defended multi-party litigation in relation to a significant data breach in the UK, dealt with an FCA investigation relating to a global payment services provider and represented a high-profile individual in relation to a multi-million pound D&O insurance dispute in the context of a US DoJ prosecution. He has also advised a foreign government in relation to various tax and transparency issues and represented over 50 financial institutions served with data production orders by HM Revenue & Customs in the UK.

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Beyond his regulatory practice, Sam structures and negotiates complex commercial transactions, including data licensing agreements, software as a service (SaaS) and other technology platform agreements, AI development partnerships, research collaborations, and clinical trial agreements.

Before joining McDermott, Sam served as in-house counsel at an academic medical center and a precision medicine startup, handling complex privacy, research, and healthcare regulatory challenges. This frontline experience informs his pragmatic approach, allowing him to deliver solutions that seamlessly integrate compliance with business objectives.

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Lindsay has extensive experience working with single-family offices in connection with the formation and/or restructuring of family offices and investment entities, the creation of investment funds, the establishment of incentive equity programs for key employees and related income tax planning. She also routinely works on complex tax planning for high-net-worth individuals and families, tax structuring for partnership-related matters, and tax controversy matters.

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• Represented a publicly-traded master limited partnership in multiple dropdown transactions and related equity offerings*
• Acted as lead tax counsel for an energy company analyzing the ramifications of the GILTI tax reform on its business*

*Matter handled prior to joining the firm.

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• Obtained trial victory invalidating Allergan patents covering the dry-eye treatment, Restasis (Allergan v. Mylan (E.D. TX))*
• Obtained jury trial verdict in Boston invalidating a patent relating to drug product testing where the plaintiffs sought nearly $1B in damages (Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. et a. v. Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (D. Mass))*
• Obtained summary judgment of invalidity in generic-side Hatch-Waxman litigation relating to Pfizer’s blockbuster Celebrex product (D. Searle et al. v. Lupin et al. (E.D. Va.))*
• Obtained summary affirmance of district court order enforcing oral settlement agreement resolving Frova litigation (Endo v. Mylan (D. Del.))*
• Obtained favorable dismissal of medical device patent litigation (Becton Dickinson v. Medefil (D. NJ))*
• Obtained favorable summary judgment ruling of invalidity and unenforceability of two AstraZeneca patents. The invalidity summary judgment was affirmed on appeal (In re Metoprolol Succinate Patent Litigation (E.D. Mo.))*
• Obtained favorable summary judgement ruling of non-infringement on one Aventis patent, and a summary judgment dismissing claim of willful infringement on a second Aventis patent. The case was resolved during Cobalt’s presentation of its case-in-chief (Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH et al. v. Cobalt Pharmaceuticals (D. Mass.))*

*Matter handled prior to joining the firm.

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• Legal 500 USA, Recommended Lawyer, 2022-2025
• San Diego Super Lawyers, Intellectual Property, 2016-present
• Daily Journal, Top 75 Intellectual Property Litigators, 2015

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Nathan has been recognized for his legal abilities by leading publications, including Legal 500 and Super Lawyers, which naming him a Rising Star, and is a recipient of the Burton Award for exceptional legal writing.

Nathan received a BA in Economics and European History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, cum laude, and earned his JD from New York University School of Law in 2004, where he was an Articles Editor for the Annual Survey of American Law.

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• Represented the outside directors of two hedge funds in connection with multi-billion dollar litigations brought by the Caymanian joint liquidators of the funds*
• Represented an outside director of a collapsed hedge fund in connection with a litigation brought by investors*
• Represented a retail mortgage lender in connection with a complex litigation arising out of its $550 million acquisition of the stock and assets of a large mortgage loan originator*
• Represented the former outside directors of a multinational conglomerate in connection with multi-billion dollar securities class actions and shareholder derivative suits stemming from the criminal activities of the company’s former management team*
• Represented an international banking institution in connection with a civil action seeking to recover $700 million in losses arising out of a contemplated CDO transaction*
• Represented a major chemical company in connection with an antitrust and RICO action brought by the Republic of Iraq arising out of Saddam Hussein’s corruption of the UN-administered Oil-For-Food Program*
• Represented a real estate investment trust in its proxy contest and successful litigation against an activist hedge fund*
• Represented a media conglomerate in connection with litigation arising from the acquisition of the company by a consortium of investors*
• Represented an American pharmaceutical company in its $15.6 billion acquisition*
• Represented an Irish biotechnology company in its successful defense of a hostile tender offer*
• Represented the CEO of a major software company in connection with a proposed going-private transaction and $2.4 billion sale*
• Represented a Chinese gas distributor in connection with a going-private transaction*
• Represented a major financial institution in connection with a wide-ranging criminal and regulatory investigation into its participation in the auction rate securities market*
• Represented a private equity firm in connection with an investigation brought by the SEC*
• Represented the independent directors of an offshore hedge fund in connection with an investigation brought by the SEC*
• Represented a hedge fund in connection with its role structuring a synthetic CDO transaction*

*Matter handled prior to joining the firm

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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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