
Robert Hughes

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

Robert advises private equity firms, portfolio companies and a variety of public and private businesses in connection with a range of strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, structured financings, leveraged buyouts and joint ventures. His work spans a variety of industries, including infrastructure, renewables, telecommunications, energy and technology.
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
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