Christopher S. Collins
Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002
Christopher has a broad-based corporate practice focused on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. He has extensive experience in a wide array of corporate and securities transactions, including public and private mergers; asset and stock dispositions; public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities; venture capital financings; project financings; consolidation transactions; and the structuring and formation of partnerships, joint ventures, and strategic alliances.
Experience Highlights
Targa Resources Corp. in its $6.7 billion acquisition of Targa Resources Partners in an all stock-for-unit transaction
Targa Resources Partners and Targa Resources Corp. in the $7.7 billion acquisition of Atlas Pipeline Partners and Atlas Energy
Nuevo Midstream in the $1.5 billion sale of the company to Western Gas Partners
BP in the $2.4 billion sale of its Texas City refinery and a portion of its retail and logistics network in the Southeast United States to Marathon Petroleum
Targa Resources Corp. in its $360 million initial public offering of common stock
Crestwood Midstream Partners in its $750 million acquisition of Arrow Midstream Holdings, a privately-held midstream company in the Bakken shale play
Targa Resources Partners in the $950 million acquisition of Saddle Butte Pipeline’s Williston Basin crude oil pipeline and terminal system and natural gas gathering and processing operations
Western Refining in the $220 million sale of its Yorktown, Virginia refinery and related assets to Plains All American Pipeline
Calfrac Well Services Corporation in the $147 million acquisition of the hydraulic well fracturing services business and coiled tubing business of Mission Well Services
Susser Holdings in the acquisition of Gainesville Fuel, a wholesale fuel distributor in North Texas
Credentials
- Vanderbilt University, J.D., 1981 (Member, Vanderbilt Law Review)
- Wofford College, B.A. Economics summa cum laude, 1978 (Phi Beta Kappa)
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), (Houston): Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, 2005−2017 and 2020−2023
- IFLR1000, 2020–2022
- Texas
- IFLR1000 2022 Recognizes Vinson & Elkins in 21 Practice Categories, Recommends 49 Individual LawyersRankings & AwardsAugust 25, 2022
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- Deals & CasesJune 17, 2022
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- Deals & CasesSeptember 13, 2021
- IFLR1000 2021 Recognizes Vinson & Elkins in 21 Practice Categories, Recommends 52 Individual LawyersRankings & AwardsAugust 25, 2021
- Deals & CasesJuly 6, 2021
- Rankings & AwardsOctober 2, 2020
- Rankings & AwardsAugust 20, 2020