
David W. Wicklund

The Grace Building
1114 Avenue of the Americas
32nd Floor
New York, NY 10036





David Wicklund, a partner in V&E’s Finance practice group, advises clients on complex acquisition and leveraged financings.
David’s clients include top-tier private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as corporate borrowers, lead arrangers and underwriters in a variety of domestic and cross-border acquisitions. In addition, he advises corporations and underwriters on debt offerings for general corporate purposes. Many of his clients are focused on the oil and gas industry as well as the industrial, infrastructure and technology sectors.
David is experienced in advising on syndicated loans, high-yield bond offerings, reserve-based facilities, asset-based facilities, distressed debt, mezzanine facilities, and direct lending.
Experience Highlights
Maxar Technologies Ltd. (f/k/a MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.), a space technologies company, in connection with financing its acquisition of Digital Globe, Inc., the global leader in Earth imagery, for $3.6 billion
AltaGas, Ltd. in connection with financing its acquisition of WGL Holdings, Inc. for $6.4 billion in cash
TPG Growth and The Rise Fund in connection with financing their acquisition of CLEAResult
TPG Pace Energy Holdings Corp. in connection with financing its acquisition of oil and gas assets within EnerVest’s South Texas Division for approximately $2.66 billion in cash and stock
Blackstone in connection with financing its acquisition of EagleClaw Midstream Ventures for approximately $2 billion
Blackstone in connection with financing its acquisition of a 49.9% interest in ET Rover Pipeline for approximately $1.57 billion in cash
Targa Resources Partners and Targa Resources Corp. in the $7.7 billion acquisition of Atlas Pipeline Partners and Atlas Energy
Nexeo Solutions, a chemicals and plastics distributor and TPG Capital portfolio company, in its $1.575 billion merger with WL Ross Holdings Corp. in a SPAC business combination
NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. (NRF) in connection with the financing aspects of a merger involving NRF, NorthStar Asset Management Group and Colony Capital, Inc.
TPG Capital in its $1.8 billion acquisition of natural gas properties in Wyoming’s Jonah field from Encana Corporation
Energy XXI in its $2.3 billion acquisition of EPL Oil & Gas Inc., creating the largest publicly traded independent oil and gas producer on the Gulf of Mexico Shelf
Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC in a $400 million unsecured notes offering
Jonah Energy LLC in a $600 million unsecured notes offering
Underwriters to CONSOL Mining Corporation in a $300 million secured notes offering
Underwriters to Bristow Group Inc. in a $350 million secured notes offering
CVR Partners, LP in a $645 million senior secured notes offering
SandRidge Energy, Inc. in its $1.25 billion offering of senior secured notes
Goodrich Petroleum Corporation in a $100 million senior secured notes offering
Goodrich Petroleum Corporation in an up-tiering exchange transaction
Underwriters to Baytex Energy Corp. in its $1.2 billion offering of senior notes
Breitburn Energy Partners LP in a private placement of $650 million of 9.25% senior secured second lien notes
Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc. in its $1.5 billion offering of senior secured notes
Credentials
- Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2003
- Williams College, B.A., 2000
- The Legal 500 U.S., Private Equity Buyouts, 2016; Project Finance, 2018 and 2019; Finance: Commercial Lending, 2019
- Selected to New York Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2014, 2016-2018
- Legal 500 U.S., Finance: Commercial Lending, 2020; Finance: Project Finance, 2020
- IFLR1000, 2020
- New York
- Deals & CasesJanuary 6, 2021
- Deals & CasesDecember 1, 2020
- Rankings & AwardsOctober 2, 2020
- Deals & CasesSeptember 29, 2020
- Rankings & AwardsJune 16, 2020
- Event RecapMarch 17, 2020
- Deals & CasesMarch 10, 2020
- Deals & CasesDecember 17, 2019
- Deals & CasesOctober 18, 2019
- Rankings & AwardsMay 30, 2019
- V&E+May 10, 2019
- Event RecapApril 10, 2019
- Deals & CasesApril 2, 2019
- Deals & CasesJanuary 31, 2019
- Deals & CasesDecember 19, 2018
- V&E+November 28, 2018
- Deals & CasesNovember 7, 2018
- Deals & CasesNovember 2, 2018
- Rankings & AwardsSeptember 13, 2018
- Deals & CasesAugust 21, 2018
- Deals & CasesJune 18, 2018
- Deals & CasesApril 26, 2018
- Deals & CasesMarch 20, 2018
- Deals & CasesJanuary 16, 2018
- Deals & CasesOctober 6, 2017
- Deals & CasesJanuary 26, 2017
- Deals & CasesJanuary 25, 2017
- Deals & CasesJune 3, 2016
- “High Yield Bonds in the Energy Industry,” V&E Houston Office, April 10, 2019 (speaker)
- “Oil & Gas Agreements: Purchase and Sale Agreements,” Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 12, 2016