Brenda Lenahan
The Grace Building
1114 Avenue of the Americas
32nd Floor
New York, NY 10036
After representing a company in an offering or other transaction, you often become a general resource for their ongoing legal needs and help quarterback the relationship. I love that collaboration and the feeling that I’m making a difference in helping a management team achieve its goals. Brenda Lenahan focuses her practice on capital markets, and corporate governance and compliance. Brenda represents both issuers and underwriters in a variety of capital markets transactions. She has wide experience handling initial public offerings, other public offerings of debt and equity securities, and private placements of debt and equity securities.
She has particular experience with Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) and publicly traded master limited partnerships (MLPs). Brenda is a highly skilled practitioner with extensive knowledge of securities law. She regularly advises clients on general corporate matters, including corporate compliance and governance. Brenda was recognized in Capital Markets: Equity Offerings in 2019 by Legal 500 U.S.
She serves as a co-chair of V&E’s Women’s Initiative in the firm’s New York office and a member of the New York Recruiting Committee.
Experience Highlights
Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company, in its $200 million initial public offering of units
Tortoise Acquisition Corp. II, a special purpose acquisition company, in its $345 million initial public offering of units
Spartan Energy Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its $552 million initial public offering of common units
Focus Financial Partners Inc., an international partnership of wealth management firms, in its $615 million initial public offering of common stock
Black Stone Minerals, L.P., a mineral interest MLP, in its $428 million initial public offering of common units
Viper Energy Partners LP, a mineral interest, variable MLP, in its $150 million initial public offering of common units
ARC Logistics Partners LP, an MLP with crude oil and refined products terminalling assets, in its $129 million initial public offering of common units
Underwriters to CrossAmerica Partners LP (fka Lehigh Gas Partners L.P.), an MLP engaged in the wholesale distribution of motor fuels, in its $138 million initial public offering of common units
Underwriters to Pattern Energy Group Inc., a wind power company, in its $352 million initial public offering of common stock
Publicly traded companies on listing exchange requirements and corporate governance review in the context of their day-to-day operations, capital market offerings, and strategic transactions, including Global Partners LP, a midstream logistics and marketing MLP, and Cloud Peak Energy Inc., a coal producer
Northern Tier Energy LP, a variable MLP with refining, retail, and pipeline operations, in its $262 million initial public offering of common units
Rhino Resource Partners L.P., a coal MLP, in its $76 million initial public offering of common units
PVR Partners, L.P. in the financing of its $1.0 billion acquisition of a midstream pipeline company with operating assets serving Marcellus Shale natural gas producers, primarily in northeastern Pennsylvania
Buckeye Partners in the $1.7 billion acquisition of Bahamas Oil Refining Company, owner of the largest storage terminal facility in the Caribbean, from First Reserve and Vopak
Arc Terminals, a portfolio company of Lightfoot Capital Partners, in the acquisition of Gulf Coast Asphalt Company’s 1.2 million barrel marine terminalling facility in Mobile, Alabama, and rail transloading facility in Saraland, Alabama
Sinopec in the $8 billion acquisition of Addax Petroleum Corporation, a Canadian company publicly traded on the Toronto and London Stock Exchanges, with oil and gas assets in West Africa and the Middle East
Credentials
- University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2000 (Texas Law Review; Chancellor-at-Large; Order of the Coif)
- University of Texas, B.B.A. with highest honors, 1994; Masters in Professional Accounting in Taxation, 1994
- Legal 500 U.S., Capital Markets: Equity Offerings, 2019
- Member: American Bar Association; New York State Bar Association; Business Law Section, State Bar of Texas
- Texas
- New York
- Deals & CasesNovember 3, 2020
- Deals & CasesOctober 26, 2020
- InsightOctober 12, 2020
V&E Capital Markets Update
- Rankings & AwardsOctober 2, 2020
- Deals & CasesSeptember 15, 2020
- InsightSeptember 3, 2020
V&E SEC Update
- Deals & CasesJuly 31, 2020
- Deals & CasesJuly 13, 2020
- Deals & CasesJune 19, 2020
- V&E+June 4, 2020
- Deals & CasesJune 4, 2020
- Deals & CasesApril 29, 2020
- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseApril 22, 2020
- Special Purpose Acquisition CompaniesJanuary 1, 2020
- Deals & CasesNovember 18, 2019
- Deals & CasesOctober 8, 2019
- Rankings & AwardsMay 30, 2019
- Deals & CasesMarch 4, 2019
- Deals & CasesJanuary 4, 2019
- Deals & CasesNovember 27, 2018
- V&E+September 19, 2018
- Deals & CasesAugust 14, 2018
- Deals & CasesJuly 30, 2018
- Deals & CasesMarch 22, 2018
- Deals & CasesApril 18, 2017
- “Valuation Creation and Strategic Exit Readiness,” Independent Petroleum Association of Americas IPAA Oil Gas Investment Symposium, April 8, 2019 (panelist)