
Curt Wimberly

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

Curt Wimberly is a transactional tax lawyer who focuses on the U.S. federal income tax implications of complex domestic and international transactions. He advises clients on a wide range of transactions, including the formation of private equity structures, joint ventures, “Up-Cs” and other initial public offering (IPO) vehicles, master limited partnerships (MLPs), and various cross-border structures. He also advises on the tax implications of mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, capital markets transactions, and cross-border restructurings.
Experience Highlights
Oasis Petroleum and its affiliate companies in the $1.8 billion merger of Oasis Midstream Partners LP with Crestwood Equity Partners LP
Brigham Minerals in its $4.8 billion business combination with Sitio Royalties
Western Midstream Partners, LP in its entry into a definitive agreement to acquire Aris Water Solutions, Inc., an environmental infrastructure and solutions company, in a transaction valued at approximately $2.0 billion
IFM Investors in the formation of a joint venture with DigitalBridge to acquire Switch, Inc. in a $11 billion take-private transaction
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company in connection with a joint venture with QatarEnergy to develop an $8.5 billion integrated polymers facility in Orange, Texas
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
Vitol, the largest independent energy trading company globally, in the formation of dedicated credit investment platforms 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
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
The Lion Electric Company, a leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of all-electric medium and heavy-duty urban vehicles, in its $1.9 billion combination with Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp., a SPAC
CSI Compressco in its $854 million sale to Kodiak Gas Services
KKR in the $5.7 billion merger between Independence Energy and Contango to form Crescent Energy Company
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
TPG Pace Beneficial Finance in its $1.4 billion business combination with EVBox, a leading global provider of smart charging solutions for electric vehicles (terminated)
TPG Pace Tech Opportunities, a SPAC, in its $1.7 billion Up-C business combination with Nerdy, a direct-to-consumer, curated gig economy platform for live online learning
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
Viking Global Investors as a lead investor in the $15 billion business combination of Ginkgo Bioworks and Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp., a SPAC
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
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
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
Omega Protein, a nutritional product company and provider of specialty oils and specialty protein products, in its $500 million sale to Cooke
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
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
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 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
White Rock Energy, LLC, a portfolio company of Quantum Capital Group, in its sale of producing assets in the Elm Coulee field of the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota to a subsidiary of TXO Partners, L.P.
The Carlyle Group in a USD $374 million investment in Amp Solar Group, a global energy transition platform, to support the growth of both Amp’s asset base and Amp X, a proprietary digital energy platform, within its core markets of North America, Japan, Australia, Iberia and the UK
Oasis Midstream Partners LP in its $147 million initial public offering of common units
Underwriters to Antero Midstream GP LP in its $875 million initial public offering of common units by a selling securityholder
Nabors Energy Transition Corp. II in its $305 million initial public offering
Talos Energy Inc. in its $403 million public offering of common stock
Golar LNG Limited in its $575 million offering of convertible senior notes
Antero Midstream Corporation in its $171 million public offering of common stock by a selling stockholder
Hi-Crush Partners LP in its conversion from a master limited partnership to a C-corporation
(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), 2023–2026
- Member: Tax Section, American Bar Association
- District of Columbia
- Texas
- Rankings & AwardsAugust 21, 2025
- Deals & CasesAugust 6, 2025
- InsightJuly 8, 2025
V&E Tax Update
- Deals & CasesJuly 1, 2025
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- Deals & CasesJune 17, 2025
- Deals & CasesJune 10, 2025
- Deals & CasesMarch 28, 2025
- InsightMarch 6, 2025
- InsightDecember 18, 2024
V&E Tax Update
- InsightNovember 14, 2024
V&E Tax Update
- Deals & CasesNovember 14, 2024
- InsightNovember 5, 2024
V&E Tax Update
- InsightOctober 23, 2024
V&E Tax Update
- InsightOctober 8, 2024
V&E Tax Update
- InsightSeptember 19, 2024
V&E Tax Update
- Deals & CasesSeptember 16, 2024
- Deals & CasesSeptember 12, 2024
- Deals & CasesAugust 21, 2024
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- Deals & CasesAugust 12, 2024
- Deals & CasesAugust 6, 2024
- Deals & CasesMay 16, 2024
- Deals & CasesJanuary 31, 2024
- Deals & CasesJanuary 10, 2024
- Deals & CasesDecember 19, 2023
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- Deals & CasesNovember 2, 2023
- Rankings & AwardsAugust 21, 2023
- Deals & CasesJuly 18, 2023
- Deals & CasesJune 21, 2023
- InsightAugust 23, 2022
V&E Tax Update
- “Exploring MLPs as a Financing Tool for Advanced Nuclear,” Energy Infrastructure Council (EIC) webinar, August 6, 2025 (co-speaker)