
Brittany A. Sakowitz


Brittany concentrates her practice on mergers and acquisitions and private equity. She has counseled private equity investors, their portfolio companies, and other public and private companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, offerings of equity and debt securities, and general corporate governance matters. Brittany has advised clients across a broad range of industries, including energy (upstream, midstream, oilfield services, power, and marketing and trading), consumer products, and financial services.
Experience Highlights
Sunoco in the $3.3 billion sale of a majority of its convenience stores to 7-Eleven
Noble Midstream Partners in the formation of Black Diamond Gathering, LLC, a joint venture with Greenfield Midstream, LLC, to acquire Saddle Butte Rockies Midstream, LLC for $625 million
Omega Protein in its $500 million sale to Cooke, a global seafood company based in Canada
Focus Financial Partners in the acquisition of SCS Capital Management, an independent registered investment advisory firm with $16.5 billion in regulatory assets under management
SCF Partners in multiple investments in energy services and equipment industry providers
SCF Partners in its investment in Hi-Tech Industrial Services, provider of integrated specialty services to the downstream energy, infrastructure and industrial markets
SCF Partners in its acquisition of BCCK Holding Company, an international natural gas engineering company specializing in nitrogen rejection
SCF Partners in the combination of Beckman Production Services and Nine Energy Services, provider of completion tools and services to support the development of unconventional and conventional oil and gas resources
Riverstone Holdings in the $9.5 billion formation of Talen Energy Corporation, one of the largest independent power producers in the U.S., through a Reverse Morris Trust spin-off of PPL Corporation’s merchant power generation business and the concurrent combination thereof with Riverstone’s merchant power generation business and associated debt financings
Sunoco Logistics Partners LP in its $20 billion merger with Energy Transfer Partners in a unit-for-unit transaction
Energy Transfer Partners in its $3.75 billion exchange with Energy Transfer Equity of Sunoco Logistics Partners’ general partner interest and incentive distribution rights and its interests in the Bakken pipeline project
Energy Transfer Partners in the $1.8 billion acquisition of Susser Holdings Corporation, the owner of retail convenience stores and a wholesale fuel distributor, in a unit and cash transaction
KLR Energy Acquisition Corp. in the $445 million combination with Tema Oil and Gas Company to form Rosehill Resources in a SPAC business combination
Enviva Wilmington Holdings in its $175 million sale of Enviva Pellets Sampson to Enviva Partners
Enviva Wilmington Holdings in the $130 million sale of Enviva Port of Wilmington, owner of a deep-water marine terminal, to Enviva Partners
New York Mortgage Trust in the approximately $24 million acquisition of the remaining 80% membership interests in RiverBanc, an investment management firm that manages over $400 million of direct and indirect investments in multifamily apartment properties
Tyr Energy in the acquisition of 100% of the equity interest in Hickory Run Energy for development of a highly efficient natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant with an electric generating capacity of up to 1,000 MW
Quantum Utility Generation in its acquisition of gas-fired power generation development projects in Texas
Shelf Subsea Services, an SCF Partners portfolio company, in the $17 million acquisition of the Australian and Asian assets of Cal Dive International; distressed acquisition after Cal Dive parent in US sought chapter 11 protection
Wayzata Investment Partners in the sale by Castleton Energy Center, a Wayzata portfolio company, of its 72 megawatt natural gas- and oil-fired electric generating facility in Castleton-on-Hudson, New York to Fortistar
Nine Energy Service, Inc. in its $185 million initial public offering of common stock
Underwriters to EQT GP Holdings, LP in its $714 million initial public offering of common units by a selling securityholder
Credentials
- University of Houston Law Center, J.D., 2010
- University of Houston Bauer College of Business, M.B.A., 2010
- Louisiana State University, B.A. Communications, 2007
- Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2014−2020
- Expert Guides, “Rising Star” in Corporate/M&A/Private Equity, 2020
- Member: Houston Bar Association, Houston Young Lawyers Association
- Advisory Board Member: Hermann Park Conservancy
- Texas
- Deals & CasesJanuary 8, 2021
- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseJanuary 5, 2021
- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseNovember 3, 2020
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- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseOctober 13, 2020
- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseOctober 9, 2020
- Deals & CasesOctober 2, 2020
- Event RecapAugust 5, 2020
- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseJuly 16, 2020
- Event RecapJuly 15, 2020
- Deals & CasesJune 29, 2020
- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseJune 25, 2020
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- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseJune 1, 2020
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- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseMay 14, 2020
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- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseMay 1, 2020
- InsightMay 1, 2020
Published in Law360
- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseApril 28, 2020
- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseApril 10, 2020
- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseApril 8, 2020
- Coronavirus: Preparation & ResponseApril 3, 2020
- Rankings & AwardsMarch 6, 2020
- Deals & CasesDecember 20, 2019
- Deals & CasesOctober 9, 2019
- Event RecapAugust 22, 2019
- Deals & CasesAugust 1, 2019
- Deals & CasesMay 31, 2019
- Rankings & AwardsApril 10, 2019
- Deals & CasesMarch 25, 2019
- Deals & CasesMarch 21, 2019
- Rankings & AwardsMarch 4, 2019
- Deals & CasesFebruary 8, 2019
- Deals & CasesJanuary 10, 2019
- Press ReleaseDecember 17, 2018
- Deals & CasesOctober 22, 2018
- Deals & CasesSeptember 28, 2018
- V&E+September 10, 2018
- Deals & CasesAugust 1, 2018
- Rankings & AwardsMarch 12, 2018
- Deals & CasesJanuary 2, 2018
- Deals & CasesOctober 6, 2017
- Deals & CasesMay 15, 2017
- Deals & CasesMay 10, 2017
- Deals & CasesApril 6, 2017
- Deals & CasesMay 2, 2016
- “Deal Terms: What’s the Market?” Privcap Energy Game Change 2019, December 3, 2019 (panelist)
- “Alternative Capital Transactions in the Energy Industry,” V&E Houston Office, August 22, 2019 (speaker)
- “7-Eleven Asset Acquisition,” Corporate Counsel Magazine, July 2017 (co-author)
- “M&A Transaction Structures: Corporate, Reporting, and Tax Considerations,” V&E Houston Office, June 14, 2017 (speaker)
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