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Vinson & Elkins advised affiliates of Riverstone Holdings LLC in the formation of, and their investment in, Converge Midstream LLC.
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Vinson & Elkins advised Chisholm Oil and Gas, LLC
(“Chisholm”) in entering into definitive agreements with Gastar Exploration LLC
(“Gastar”) to create a leading STACK E&P company through a business
combination between the two companies. The combined
company, which will operate under the name Chisholm Oil and Gas and be
headquartered in Tulsa, will have net production of approximately 20,000 Boe
per day and a combined acreage position of approximately 165,000 net acres,
primarily in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma.
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Vinson & Elkins represented Caelus Natural Resources
Alaska, LLC on its entry into an agreement with ConocoPhillips Alaska to sell
100 percent of the Nuna discovery, located just east of the Colville River and
approximately five miles southwest of the Oooguruk Field.
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Vinson & Elkins advised TPG Sixth Street Partners in connection with an initial commitment to fund up to $500 million to Eagle Land JV, LLC, a newly formed partnership with Glendale Energy Ventures, LLC that will directly invest in the development and acquisition of upstream oil and gas assets across the United States.
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Vinson & Elkins advised Clovis Point Capital, LLC in connection with its growth equity investment in RIVS.com, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based interview and recruiting software.
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Vinson & Elkins served as underwriters’ counsel in connection with Cactus, Inc.’s underwritten secondary offering of 8,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock by certain selling stockholders for total gross proceeds of $308.1 million.
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Vinson & Elkins advised ForeFlight, a leading provider of innovative mobile and web-based aviation applications, in the acquisition of Foreflight by Boeing.
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Vinson & Elkins advised Summit Midstream Partners, LP in the sale of Tioga Midstream, a non-core gathering system in North Dakota, to affiliates of Hess Infrastructure Partners LP for $90 million, subject to customary closing adjustments.
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Vinson & Elkins advised DISCO in connection with its $83 million investment led by Georgian Partners, a Toronto-based venture-capital firm with deep expertise in applied artificial intelligence. Existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, LiveOak Venture Partners, The Stephens Group and venture-debt provider Comerica all participated in the round.
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Vinson & Elkins advised Meritage Midstream ULC and Riverstone in the sale of Meritage Midstream ULC and its Canadian midstream infrastructure assets for C$600 million (US$449 million) to SemCAMS Midstream ULC, a joint venture formed by SemGroup®Corporation and KKR.
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Vinson & Elkins advised Canadian Non-Operated Resources
L.P. in connection with a strategic merger of its wholly-owned subsidiary,
Pipestone Oil Corp., with Blackbird Energy Inc. to create Pipestone Energy
Corp.
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Vinson & Elkins advised Caelus Natural Resources Alaska, LLC in a transaction whereby Eni will acquire 70% and operatorship of the Oooguruk oil field in Alaska from Caelus.
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Vinson & Elkins advised Vida Capital, Inc. in the formation of Merion Square Capital LLC, a joint venture with Rewire Holdings, LLC which combines the expertise and core competencies of the two companies.
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Vinson & Elkins advised certain investment funds managed by the Merchant Banking Division of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) in the negotiation of a Security Purchase Agreement pursuant to which GS will acquire 300,000 shares of the 12% Redeemable Preferred Stock of McDermott International, Inc., a Panama corporation (the Company), and a warrant to purchase a number of shares of the Common Stock of the Company equal to 3.75% of the total number of shares of Common Stock of the Company outstanding as of the closing date.
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Vinson & Elkins advised investment funds managed by EIG Global Energy Partners in their purchase of five-year volumetric production payments associated with certain offshore oil and gas properties from an undisclosed seller for a cash purchase price of $375 million.
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Vinson & Elkins advised funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC in connection with an equity investment in Infrastructure Networks, Inc., the leading provider of private broadband wireless LTE solutions to the energy industry.
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Vinson & Elkins advised Caprock Midstream Holdings (Caprock) in a transaction whereby EagleClaw Midstream will acquire Caprock from Energy Spectrum Capital and Caprock Midstream Management for $950 million plus pre-closing adjustments.
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Vinson & Elkins advised Salt Fork Resources, LLC (Salt
Fork) and an affiliate of Riverstone Holdings LLC (Riverstone) in connection
with the acquisition by Ascent Resources, LLC (Ascent) of certain natural gas
and oil properties from Salt Fork and a cash contribution by Riverstone to
Ascent.
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Vinson & Elkins advised Spartan Energy Acquisition Corp. in connection with its initial public offering of 55,200,000 units at a public offering price of $10.00 per unit, including the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase up to an additional 7,200,000 units.
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Vinson & Elkins advised Deep Gulf Energy Companies (DGE), a portfolio company of global private equity investment firm First Reserve, in an agreement to sell DGE to Kosmos Energy for a total consideration of $1.225 billion.
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