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Michael Telle
Michael Telle
Partner — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions
Partner — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions

Michael Telle

Michael Telle
Houston

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

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Michael Telle

Experience Highlights

  • Harold G. Hamm in taking Continental Resources private at a $27 billion valuation

  • Baytex Energy Corp. (TSX:BTE) in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Ranger Oil Corporation, a pure play Eagle Ford company

  • ProFrac Holdings in its $407.5 million acquisition of FTS International, creating one of the largest completions-focused service companies in the U.S. oil and gas industry

  • ProFrac Holding Corp. in its $288 million initial public offering of common stock

  • Goodrich Petroleum Corporation in its $480 million sale to Paloma Partners, an EnCap affiliate, in an all cash tender offer

  • WildHorse Resource Development Corporation in its $447 million initial public offering of common stock

  • Continental Resources, Inc. in multiple offerings of senior notes

  • Tidewater Inc. in the $190 million acquisition of Swire Pacific Offshore, creating the industry’s largest fleet of offshore support vessels

  • Harold G. Hamm in taking Continental Resources private at a $27 billion valuation

  • Baytex Energy Corp. (TSX:BTE) in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Ranger Oil Corporation, a pure play Eagle Ford company

  • Frank’s International in its merger with Expro Group

  • Goodrich Petroleum Corporation in its $480 million sale to Paloma Partners, an EnCap affiliate, in an all cash tender offer

  • ProFrac Holdings in its $407.5 million acquisition of FTS International, creating one of the largest completions-focused service companies in the U.S. oil and gas industry

  • Paragon Offshore Limited in the $232.5 million sale to Borr Drilling Limited in an all cash tender offer

  • Tidewater Inc. in the $190 million acquisition of Swire Pacific Offshore, creating the industry’s largest fleet of offshore support vessels

  • Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. in its $1.0 billion acquisition of American Petroleum Tankers LLC and State Class Tankers LLC

  • Sunoco Logistics Partners, L.P. in the formation of Permian Express Partners, a strategic joint venture with ExxonMobil to combine certain of their key crude oil logistics assets

  • Lufkin Industries Inc. in its $3.3 billion acquisition by General Electric Company

  • Chesapeake Energy Corporation in the $2.0 billion disposition of its interest in Chesapeake Midstream Partners, L.P.

  • W-H Energy Services, Inc. in its $3.1 billion acquisition by Smith International, Inc.

  • Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Enbridge Energy Partners in multiple related-party finance and M&A transactions

  • Enterprise Products Partners, L.P. in its $13.0 billion cash and stock merger with GulfTerra Energy Partners, L.P.

  • Alinda Capital Partners in its acquisition of a 50% interest in the general partner of Martin Midstream Partners L.P.

  • ProFrac Holding Corp. in its $288 million initial public offering of common stock

  • WildHorse Resource Development Corporation in its $447 million initial public offering of common stock

  • Mach Resources LLC in its $190 million initial public offering of Mach Natural Resources LP

  • PermRock Royalty Trust in its $106 million initial public offering of trust units

  • Underwriters to EQT GP Holdings, LP in its $714 million initial public offering of common units

  • Enbridge Energy Management, L.L.C. in its $351 million initial public offering of common units

  • W-H Energy Services Inc. in its $165 million initial public offering of common stock

  • Chesapeake Granite Wash Trust in its $380 million initial public offering of trust units

  • Underwriters to EQT Midstream Partners, LP in its $400 million public offering of common units

  • Initial purchasers in the $500 million offering of senior notes by Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP and dealer manager in its concurrent tender offers

  • Continental Resources, Inc. in multiple offerings of senior notes

  • Baytex Energy Corp. in its $800 million offering of senior notes

  • Underwriters to Transocean Limited and its subsidiaries in multiple offerings of senior notes

  • Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. in its $550 million offering of senior notes

  • Oil States International, Inc. in its $200 million offering of convertible senior notes and its $135 million offering of convertible senior notes

  • Spectra Energy Partners, LP in its $800 million offering of senior notes by its subsidiary, Texas Eastern Transmission, LP

  • Underwriters to Southwestern Energy Company in multiple offerings of senior notes

  • Underwriters to Nabors Industries, Inc. in multiple offerings of senior notes

  • Underwriters to NGL Energy Partners LP in multiple offerings of senior notes

  • Underwriters to Waste Management, Inc. in its $500 million offering of investment grade senior notes

Credentials

  • South Texas College of Law, J.D. summa cum laude, 1994
  • Texas Tech University, M.S. summa cum laude, 1991
  • Texas Tech University, B.B.A., Economics cum laude, 1990
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), Corporate Law (Houston), 2016−2024
  • Legal 500 U.S., Finance: Capital Markets: Debt Offerings, 2015; Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings, 2015 and 2021; Energy: Transactions, 2015; Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Large Deals ($1–5 billion), 2014
  • Chambers USA, Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Texas), 2013–2019, 2021–2023; Corporate/M&A (Texas), 2011–2015 and 2019; Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional) (Texas), 2010–2011; Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Central United States)(Nationwide), 2019–2023
  • Chambers Global, Capital Markets: Debt and Equity (Central USA), 2020–2024
  • Selected to the 500 Leading Energy Lawyers, Lawdragon, 2023 and 2024
  • Selected to the Texas Super Lawyers list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2008–2017
  • IFLR1000, 2020–2023
  • Texas