Overview

Caroline’s practice focuses on complex asset and entity-level acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, commercial arrangements and other transactions and projects within the energy and infrastructure industry, with a focus on the renewables (power, solar, wind, battery storage and landfill gas to power/RNG), midstream and upstream sectors. She represents a broad range of clients, including domestic and international public and private companies, private equity funds and their portfolio companies and financing institutions.

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Experience Highlights

  • Plains All American Pipeline in its CAD$5.15 billion sale of substantially all of its Canadian natural gas liquids business to Keyera Corp.

  • Global Infrastructure Partners in the acquisition of a 50% interest in the multi-billion dollar South Fork and Revolution Offshore Wind Projects from Eversource Energy, including the negotiation of the joint venture arrangements with Orsted for the construction and operation of the projects and all financing arrangements (IJInvestor Joint Venture of the Year, 2024)

  • Meritage Midstream Services II, which owns and operates a large-scale natural gas gathering and processing business in the Power River Basin of Wyoming, in its $885 million acquisition by an operating subsidiary of Western Midstream

  • EnCap in its sale of four portfolio companies owning upstream assets in the Midland Basin to a subsidiary of Ovintiv Inc. for $4.275 billion

  • Targa Resources Corporation in its establishment of a joint venture with WPC Parent, LLC in respect of the 2.5 Bcf/d Blackcomb Pipeline in Texas

  • Plains All American in the $850 million divestiture of its Pine Prairie and Southern Pines natural gas storage facilities to an affiliate of Hartree Partners

  • Archaea Energy, an industry-leading RNG producer, in a joint venture with Republic Services Inc., a leader in the environmental services industry, to contribute approximately $1.1 billion over five years in order to develop 39 landfill gas to RNG projects across the U.S.

  • NALA Renewables and Buckeye Partners in connection with the acquisition of and joint venture structuring for, the Swift Current Energy portfolio, a US portfolio of development wind and solar assets in excess of 10GW, including the construction and term financing and tax equity investments in the portfolio assets

  • Midstream company in structuring a joint venture to gather high CO2 and otherwise nonconforming natural gas from multiple producers, treat the natural gas, and remove, capture, transport, and sequester the CO2 (ongoing)

  • Devon Energy in its joint venture with QL Capital Partners to invest in non-operated working interests located in the Delaware Basin

  • U.S. Independent Oil Producer in its acquisition of Powder River Basin assets in Wyoming from an American Energy Company

  • VTX Energy Partners, LLC in its acquisition of Delaware Basin Resources and associated surface and water businesses

  • Vitol Green Holdings in the sale of its 244 MW operating wind farm portfolio in Pennsylvania to Exus Management Partners

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Credentials

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley School of Law, J.D., 2015 (Senior Articles Editor, Berkeley Business Law Journal)
  • Georgetown University, B.A., Philosophy and Sociology magna cum laude, 2011

Admissions

  • Texas

Recognitions

  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” (Houston): Mergers & Acquisitions Law, 2023–2027; Project Finance Law, 2026 and 2027
News & Achievements

Deals & Cases

Vinson & Elkins Advises Spire Midstream LLC on $650 Million Sale of Belle Butte to I Squared Capital Affiliate

Vinson & Elkins advised Spire Midstream LLC in connection with the sale of Belle Butte LLC for a total consideration …

April 15, 2026

April 15, 2026 • 1-minute read

Awards & Rankings

Vinson & Elkins Earns 305 Rankings in The Best Lawyers in America 2026, Including Five “Lawyer of the Year” Recognitions

The Best Lawyers in America (BL Rankings, LLC) has named 125 Vinson & Elkins lawyers in its “Best Lawyers” category in the 2026 edition. Additionally, 76 Vinson & Elkins attorneys have been named in the “Ones to Watch” category, which recognizes lawyers with 5–10 years’ experience. Some individuals are listed in more than one practice area, giving the firm a total of 305 rankings.

August 21, 2025

August 21, 2025 • 3-minute read

Deals & Cases

Vinson & Elkins Advises Fortera in Strategic Partnership to Deploy Breakthrough Low-Carbon Cement Technology

Vinson & Elkins advised Arelac, Inc. (d/b/a Fortera) (“Fortera”) in connection with its entry into a strategic partnership agreement with Graymont Western U.S. Inc. (“Graymont”) providing the framework to produce Fortera’s ReAct™ low-carbon cement by leveraging Graymont’s existing lime production operations and its innovations in sustainable building materials.

August 7, 2025

August 7, 2025 • 1-minute read

Deals & Cases

Vinson & Elkins Advises Plains Midstream on $3.75 Billion Sale of Canadian Natural Gas Liquids Business to Keyera Corp.

Vinson & Elkins advised Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (“PAA”), in its sale of substantially all of its Canadian natural gas liquids (NGL) business to Keyera Corp., for a cash purchase price of approximately $5.15 billion CAD.

June 17, 2025

June 17, 2025 • 1-minute read

Deals & Cases

ONEOK Acquires Remaining Interest in Delaware Basin JV

Vinson & Elkins advised NGP Energy Capital Management in connection with NGP XI Midstream Holdings, L.L.C.’s sale of its 49.9% interest in Delaware G&P LLC, a midstream joint venture with EnLink Midstream Operating, LP (“EnLink”), to EnLink, a subsidiary of ONEOK, Inc., for a mix of stock and cash consideration valued at $940,000,000.

June 4, 2025

June 4, 2025 • 1-minute read