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Shay S. Kuperman
Shay S. Kuperman
Partner — Energy Transactions & Projects
E: skuperman@velaw.com T: +1.713.758.4762
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Partner — Energy Transactions & Projects

Shay S. Kuperman

Shay S. Kuperman
Houston
T: +1.713.758.4762
F: +1.713.615.5106

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

E: skuperman@velaw.com
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Shay S. Kuperman

Shay Kuperman advises on mergers and acquisitions, strategic joint ventures and investments, and project development for many energy companies, chemical companies and financial investors. With each matter, Shay aims to negotiate deals that satisfy multiple stakeholders and help clients solve problems efficiently while also accomplishing their larger goals.

Throughout his more than 15 years at V&E, Shay has handled billion-dollar transactions in countries across the Americas, Asia and West Africa. A native Spanish speaker, Shay’s language skills have proven critical for many of his deals in Latin America, in particular, as well as in his work on pro bono immigration matters.

Experience Highlights

  • Woodside Energy Group Ltd in its merger with BHP Petroleum with an approximately US $43 billion merged entity value and concurrent listing of American Depositary Shares (ADSs) on the NYSE

  • A subsidiary of Macquarie Group in its acquisition of certain pipeline assets in Central Mexico owned by Enagas Internacional, S.L.

  • DoublePoint Energy in its $6.4 billion sale to Pioneer Natural Resources Company (NYSE: PXD) (2022 Finalist in D CEO’s $1 Billion + Deal of the Year Awards)

  • Double Eagle Energy Holdings III in the formation of DoublePoint Energy with FourPoint Permian, and DoublePoint’s subsequent acquisition of assets from undisclosed sellers

  • Castleton Commodities International LLC in its acquisition of the Carthage upstream and midstream assets in East Texas from subsidiaries of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for over $1 billion

  • Riverstone Investment Group in becoming a 50 percent partner with Kinder Morgan in the Utopia Pipeline Project, a common carrier project that will include approximately 215 miles of new pipeline and will connect with an existing pipeline and associated facilities

  • Devon Energy in the $2 billion sale of certain non-core upstream assets to multiple buyers in east Texas, the Anadarko Basin, the northern and central Midland Basin, and northern Oklahoma

  • Riverstone Holdings in the $3.75 billion acquisition by its portfolio company, Fieldwood Energy LLC, of Apache Corp.’s assets in the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico

  • Mitsui & Co., Ltd. in its agreement with DuPont to purchase DuPont’s global Kocide and ManKocide copper fungicide assets

  • Pioneer Natural Resources in its $1.7 billion joint venture with Sinochem to develop 207,000 acres in the Permian Basin

  • The Lubrizol Corporation in its agreement to acquire Weatherford International’s oilfield chemicals business, Engineered Chemistry, and its drilling fluids business, Integrity Industries

  • A large international energy company in the $2.5 billion sale of its Argentine oil and gas operations

  • Trican Well Service in its definitive agreement with Keane Group, a privately-held, U.S. based well completion services company, for the sale of Trican’s United States pressure pumping fracking business 

  • Reliance Industries Limited in its acquisitions of interests in Marcellus Shale gas assets and joint ventures to develop those assets

  • KNOC in its $1.55 billion joint venture to buy a stake in the liquids-rich Eagle Ford shale in Texas from Anadarko Petroleum, including the subsequent sale of minority interest by KNOC to VOGO

  • Devon Energy in connection with the $2.2 billion sale of oil and gas assets in West Africa to GEPetrol

  • Rice Energy in the $336 million acquisition of 22,000 net acres and 12 developed Marcellus wells in Western Greene County, from Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC and its partners

  • Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. in its $234 million initial public offering of common stock

  • Royal Dutch Shell plc in the sale of its downstream businesses in Uruguay and Paraguay, as well as certain assets in Colombia to Petróleo Brasileiro S.A

  • Athlon Energy, an Apollo Global portfolio company, in the $250 million acquisition of West Texas oil and gas properties

  • Samsung Heavy Industries and Samsung Engineering in the creation of a joint venture entity with AMEC to carry out the design engineering for fixed and floating offshore platforms, FPSOs, and subsea pipelines

  • Chevron Phillips Chemical in a joint venture with The Dow Chemical Company to combine styrene and polystyrene business lines, involving production facilities in the United States, Colombia, and Brazil

  • Santos Limited in a $16 billion joint venture with Petronas, TOTAL, and KOGAS, for the development of a two-train greenfield LNG facility in Queensland, Australia, including the negotiation of long-term LNG off-take agreements

  • Luminant in a joint venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. to advance the development of two nuclear reactors at Luminant’s Comanche Peak facility located near Glen Rose, Texas

  • Devon Energy in its $2.5 billion joint venture with Sinopec for five shale plays (Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Niobrara, Mississippian, Ohio Utica Shale, and Michigan Basin)

Credentials

  • New York University School of Law, J.D., 2002
  • The University of Texas, B.B.A., International Business with highest honors, 1999
  • Chambers Global, Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional) (USA), 2024
  • Legal 500 U.S., Project Finance, 2013; Energy: Transactions: Oil & Gas, 2021 and 2023
  • Legal 500 Latin America, Corporate and M&A, 2012–2013, 2023, and 2024; Projects and Energy, 2012–2013 and 2023
  • Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2013–2015
  • IFLR1000, 2020–2023
  • Selected to the 500 Leading Energy Lawyers, Lawdragon, 2023 and 2024
  • Chambers USA, Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)(Nationwide), 2023
  • Member: American Bar Association
  • Texas
  • Spanish (fluent)
  • “Recent Developments Relating to Conventional Host Country Floating Instruments,” AIPN Spring Conference, April 2013
  • “Mitigating Legal Risks in International Joint Venture and M&A Transactions,” International Law Section, State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting, June 2008
  • “The Basics of International Transactions,” Texas Journal of Oil, Gas and Energy Law CLE Symposium, January 2008

News & Insights

Rankings & Awards
Vinson & Elkins Ranked in Band 1 in Seven Categories by Chambers Global 2024
February 15, 2024
Deals & Cases
Rockcliff Energy to be Acquired by TG Natural Resources
December 18, 2023
Rankings & Awards
The Legal 500 Latin America 2024 (Legalease Ltd.) Ranks Vinson & Elkins in Five Practice Categories, 19 Individual Recommendations
October 31, 2023
Deals & Cases
1979 Royalties Announces Northern Midland Basin Minerals & Royalty Acquisition From Peacemaker Royalties
September 28, 2023