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Curt Wimberly
Curt Wimberly
Counsel — Tax
E: cwimberly@velaw.com T: +1.202.639.6725
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Counsel — Tax

Curt Wimberly

Curt Wimberly
Washington, D.C.
T: +1.202.639.6725
F: +1.202.879.8809

2200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 500 West
Washington, D.C. 20037

E: cwimberly@velaw.com
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Curt Wimberly

Curt’s practice focuses on the U.S. federal income tax aspects of domestic and international transactions. He advises clients with regard to the formation of various inbound and outbound cross-border structures, master limited partnerships (MLPs), joint ventures, “Up-Cs” and other initial public offering (IPO) vehicles, and private equity structures. He also advises clients with regard to mergers and acquisitions (M&A), capital markets transactions, and cross-border restructurings.

Experience Highlights

  • Chevron Phillips Chemical Company in connection with a joint venture with QatarEnergy to develop an $8.5 billion integrated polymers facility in Orange, Texas

  • Oasis Petroleum and its affiliate companies in the $1.8 billion merger of Oasis Midstream Partners LP with Crestwood Equity Partners LP

  • SCF Partners in its acquisition of the Newpark Fluids Systems business of Newpark Resources, Inc., a leading global pure-play oil & gas and geothermal fluids solution provider

  • Brigham Minerals in its $4.8 billion business combination with Sitio Royalties

  • IFM Investors in the formation of a joint venture with DigitalBridge to acquire Switch, Inc. in a $11 billion take-private transaction

  • Goldman Sachs in a strategic, preferred equity investment in Elea Digital, a connected platform of edge data centers across Brazil

  • Talos Energy in its $1.1 billion acquisition of EnVen Energy Corporation, a private operator in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico

  • Financial institution in the equity and debt investment in a renewable natural gas developer and operator that is currently developing RNG facilities at alcohol distilleries in the U.S.

  • Vitol, the largest independent energy trading company globally, in the formation of Valor Upstream Credit Partners, L.P., a dedicated credit investment platform with Breakwall Capital LP

  • Rockcliff Energy II, a portfolio company of Quantum Energy Partners, in its $2.7 billion sale to TG Natural Resources

  • Crescent Energy in its $2.1 billion acquisition of SilverBow Resources

  • Vitol Inc. in the $235 million sale of certain of its interests in Big Sky Wind, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company that owns an approximately 240MW wind farm in Illinois

  • OCI Global in all aspects of the development, and subsequent $2.35 billion sale, of its equity interests in a clean ammonia project under construction in Beaumont, Texas to Woodside Energy Group

  • Quantum Capital Partners, QB Energy, KODA Resources in their $1.8 billion acquisition of oil and gas assets in the Piceance and Uintah Basins from Caerus Oil & Gas

  • 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

  • Viking Global Investors as a lead investor in the $15 billion business combination of Ginkgo Bioworks and Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp., a SPAC

  • Talos Energy, a portfolio company of Apollo Global Management and Riverstone Holdings, in its $2.5 billion combination with Stone Energy, creating an offshore-focused E&P company

  • Antero Midstream GP, Antero Midstream Partners, and Antero Resources in the roll up of Antero Midstream Partners in a unit-for-cash and stock transaction

  • Maxar Technologies in its $3.6 billion merger with DigitalGlobe, creating a leading provider of satellites, earth imagery, geospatial data solutions and analytics

  • First Reserve in its $135 million acquisition of TriMas Corporation’s Lamons business, a provider of industrial sealing and fastener solutions

  • Hi-Crush Partners LP in its conversion from a master limited partnership to a C-corporation

  • Omega Protein, a nutritional product company and provider of specialty oils and specialty protein products, in its $500 million sale to Cooke

  • USA Compression Partners in its $1.7 billion concurrent IDR exchange for common units and acquisition of CDM Resource Management and CDM Environmental Technical Services, and related debt and equity financings

  • Fifth Creek Energy Company, a portfolio company of NGP, in its $649 million combination with Bill Barrett Corporation, creating an E&P company focused on oil-weighted rural areas in the Denver-Julesburg Basin

  • Oasis Midstream Partners LP in its $147 million initial public offering of common units

  • (S.D. Tex.) – Represented Fortune 500 company in two federal district court disputes over the timing of tax losses on foreign investments; both matters settled favorably, with the IRS conceding most of the $89 million at issue

Credentials

  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2016
  • Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., Taxation with distinction, 2016
  • The University of Texas at Austin, M.P.A., Accounting, 2008
  • The University of Texas at Austin, B.B.A., Accounting, 2008
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Tax Law (Houston), 2023–2025
  • Member: Tax Section, American Bar Association
  • District of Columbia
  • Texas
  • “Exploring MLPs as a Financing Tool for Advanced Nuclear,” Energy Infrastructure Council (EIC) webinar, August 6, 2025 (co-speaker)

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