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Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes
Partner — Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity
Partner — Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity

Robert Hughes

Robert Hughes
Houston

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

Robert Hughes

Experience Highlights

  • FourPoint Resources and Quantum Capital Group, in partnership with Kayne Anderson Capital Partners, in their $2 billion acquisition of Ovintiv’s (NYSE, TSX: OVV) Uinta Basin assets

  • Global Infrastructure Partners, a leading global infrastructure investor, in connection with its approximately $2.6 billion all cash sale of Medallion Midstream Partners, LLC to ONEOK, INC. (NYSE: OKE)

  • Lithium Americas in its joint venture with General Motors, which will deliver $625 million of cash and letters of credit along with a $2.26 billion commitment from the DOE to advance their Thacker Pass Construction Project in Nevada, the largest known lithium deposit in the U.S.

  • A BlackRock Diversified Infrastructure fund and a Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners fund in their $1.14 billion joint acquisition of the Portland Natural Gas Transmission System from TC Energy Corporation and its partner Northern New England Investment Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Énergir L.P.

  • Global Infrastructure Partners in its $3.9 billion joint venture with TC Energy to acquire a 40% interest in TC Energy’s Columbia Gas Transmission and Columbia Gulf Transmission systems

  • KKR in the $5.7 billion merger between Independence Energy and Contango to form Crescent Energy Company

  • DigitalBridge in its acquisition of a controlling stake in Vertical Bridge Holdings, the largest private owner and operator of wireless communications infrastructure in the U.S.

  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Fund of The Carlyle Group in the formation of a joint venture with Alchemy Renewable Energy, LLC (ARE), a renewable energy developer and tax equity arranger, together with the acquisition of certain operating and development-stage solar projects from ARE

  • TPG Growth and The Rise Fund in the acquisition of CLEAResult, the country’s leading provider of efficiency solutions for utility companies, from General Atlantic

  • AltaGas in the $6.4 billion acquisition of WGL Holdings, owner of a regulated natural gas utility, a midstream franchise and non-regulated contracted power and energy marketing businesses

  • Quantum Energy Partners and Post Oak Energy Capital in the $3.6 billion sale of Oryx Midstream to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners 

  • Vantage Energy in its $2.7 billion sale to Rice Energy 

  • TPG in its $2.66 billion acquisition of assets from EnerVest in a SPAC business combination

  • Covey Park Energy in its $2.2 billion sale to Comstock Resources 

  • Centennial Resource Production in the approximately $1.39 billion sale of the company, a Natural Gas Partners portfolio company, to Silver Run Acquisition Corporation

  • TPG Growth in the $1.2 billion sale of Discovery Midstream to KKR and Williams

  • First Reserve Sustainable Growth Corp., a SPAC, in its $675 million business combination with EO Charging, a leader in electric vehicle fleet charging (pending)

  • Jagged Peak Energy Inc. in its $474 million initial public offering of common stock

  • WildHorse Resource Development in its $435 million private placement of Series A perpetual convertible preferred stock to The Carlyle Group

  • Covey Park Energy LLC in its $225 million private placement of Series A preferred units to fund in part Covey Park’s acquisition of properties in the Haynesville Shale from Chesapeake Energy Corporation 

Credentials

  • The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2013 (Member, Texas Law Review)
  • The University of Texas, B.A., Government, 2009
  • Chambers USA, Private Equity: Buyouts (Texas), 2024; Corporate/M&A (Texas), 2025
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” (Houston): Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, 2023 and 2024; Mergers & Acquisitions Law, 2023 and 2024
  • Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2020–2024
  • Dealmakers League, North America Private Equity Dealmakers: Top 10 M&A Lawyers, 2022
  • MergerLinks, Top Private Equity Lawyers (North America), 2022
  • Legal 500 U.S., M&A/Corporate & Commercial: M&A: Large Deals ($1 Billion-Plus), 2023 and 2024; M&A/Corporate & Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts, 2024 and 2025
  • Texas