
David B. Cohen

2200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 500 West
Washington, DC 20037

David’s practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and project development. His clients include publicly traded energy companies, private equity funds, portfolio companies, and financial services companies. He advises these clients in connection with the acquisition, development, financing, and disposition of oil and gas and other energy and infrastructure assets in the United States and internationally.
Experience Highlights
Pioneer Natural Resources in the $2.15 billion sale of EFS Midstream, an Eagle Ford Shale midstream company jointly owned with Reliance Holding USA, Inc., to Enterprise Products Partners
TPG Capital in its $1.8 billion acquisition of natural gas properties in Wyoming’s Jonah field from Encana Corporation
Riverstone Holdings in the $3.75 billion acquisition by its portfolio company, Fieldwood Energy LLC, of Apache Corp.’s assets in the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico
Pioneer Natural Resources in its $1.7 billion joint venture with Sinochem to develop 207,000 acres in the Permian Basin
Apollo Global Management and Riverstone Holdings in the $7.15 billion acquisition, among a consortium of investors, of El Paso Corp.’s upstream assets
Double Eagle Energy Holdings III in the formation of DoublePoint Energy with FourPoint Permian and DoublePoint’s subsequent acquisition of assets from undisclosed sellers
Double Eagle Energy Permian in its $2.8 billion sale of certain undeveloped acreage and producing oil and gas properties in the core of the Midland Basin to Parsley Energy
Pegasus Optimization Managers in a definitive agreement whereby EQT Infrastructure portfolio company Kodiak Gas Services acquired Pegasus
Chisholm Oil and Gas in its strategic combination with Gastar Exploration to create a leading STACK E&P company
Highstar Capital in the formation of, and equity commitment to, NorthStar Midstream, a joint venture with NorthStar Transloading focused on energy transportation infrastructure in the Bakken Shale
Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of interests in Eureka Hunter Holdings, owner of a natural gas gathering system in the Marcellus and Utica shale basins in the Appalachian region of the United States
The Rohatyn Group in the $880 million sale of its minority stake in Transportadora de Gas Internacional S.A. ESP to majority shareholder Empresa de Energia de Bogota S. AS. ESP
TPG Specialty Lending in its investment in Mississippi Resources, an independent exploration and production company focused on conventional oil development in Mississippi and Alabama
Global Infrastructure Partners in its $2.8 billion joint venture with El Paso Corporation to construct, own, and operate the Ruby Pipeline, a 675-mile natural gas pipeline from Wyoming to Oregon
EQT Infrastructure in the acquisition of a 70% stake in Peregrine Midstream Partners, a natural gas storage company
Credentials
- The University of Texas School of Law, J.D., 1983
- The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., 1980
- Latin Lawyer 250, 2016−2018 and 2020
- Legal Media Group’s (Euromoney’s) Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Energy and Natural Resource Lawyers, 2016
- Law360, MVP List for Energy, 2013
- Chambers Global, Oil and Gas–Transactional (USA), 2011–2013; Energy: Electricity–Transactional (USA), 2011–2015
- Chambers USA, Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional) (Nationwide), 2010–2020; Electricity (Transactional) (Nationwide), 2010–2014, 2019; Corporate/M&A (New York), 2013, 2014, 2019
- Legal 500 U.S., Energy: Transactions, 2014 and 2020; M&A: Large Deals–$1–5 billion, 2014
- Who’s Who Legal 100 (Law Business Research Ltd.), Energy, 2014, 2017 and 2020
- The International Who’s Who of Oil & Gas Lawyers (Law Business Research Ltd.), 2010–2013
- IFLR1000, 2020
- Texas (currently inactive)
- District of Columbia
- New York
- Rankings & AwardsOctober 2, 2020
- Rankings & AwardsJune 16, 2020
- Rankings & AwardsApril 23, 2020
- Rankings & AwardsApril 6, 2020
- InsightApril 2, 2020
Mergers & Acquisitions Update
- Deals & CasesSeptember 25, 2019
- Deals & CasesJune 19, 2019
- Deals & CasesJune 18, 2019
- Deals & CasesMay 6, 2019
- Rankings & AwardsApril 25, 2019
- Rankings & AwardsApril 2, 2019
- Deals & CasesJanuary 4, 2019
- Deals & CasesJanuary 3, 2019
- Deals & CasesOctober 8, 2018
- Deals & CasesAugust 29, 2018
- Deals & CasesJune 5, 2018
- Rankings & AwardsMay 9, 2018
- Rankings & AwardsMarch 7, 2018
- Deals & CasesJanuary 10, 2018