David S. Smith
Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002
David works with public and private businesses in connection with strategic transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, private equity investments, and securities offerings, and advises management teams and boards of directors on general corporate matters.
Experience Highlights
Goldman Sachs Renewable Power in its separation from Goldman Sachs Asset Management to form MN8 Energy, an independent renewable energy company and second largest U.S. independent solar and storage energy producer by capacity
MN8 Energy, Inc. in its initial public offering of common stock (In Registration)
Galvanic Energy in its sale of leased acreage to ExxonMobil estimated to contain lithium products to supply 50 million electric vehicles
BCP Raptor Holdco in its $9 billion business combination between BCP Raptor, a Blackstone and I Squared Capital portfolio company, and Altus Midstream to form Kinetik Holdings
Crowley Maritime Corporation in a joint venture with Seabulk Tankers, Inc., a subsidiary of SEACOR Holdings, to combine their respective fleets of “Jones Act” vessels engaged in liquid energy and chemical transportation and related operations and services to form Fairwater Holdings LLC , a new, independent U.S. Jones Act service provider
Talos Energy in its $1.1 billion acquisition of EnVen Energy Corporation, a private operator in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico
Desert Peak Minerals in an agreement to combine with Falcon Minerals Corporation in a $1.9 billion transaction
Mach Resources LLC in its $190 million initial public offering of Mach Natural Resources LP
Credentials
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 2017 (Senior Technical Editor, Harvard Law and Policy Review)
- University of Cambridge, LL.M., 2016
- Baylor University, B.A. summa cum laude, honors scholar with distinction, 2013 (phi beta kappa)
- Texas
- Chinese (conversational)
- French (conversational)
- Spanish (conversational)
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