Joanna D. Enns
Trammell Crow Center
2001 Ross Avenue
Suite 3900
Dallas, Texas 75201
Joanna’s practice is primarily focused on representation of issuers and investment banks in connection with public and private securities transactions. Joanna’s capital markets experience includes representation of domestic and foreign issuers and investment banks in IPOs and other equity offerings; high yield and investment grade debt offerings; and tender offers, restructurings and other liability management transactions. Joanna also routinely advises public and private companies on general corporate matters, listing exchange requirements, and ESG matters (including corporate governance and board of directors matters) in the context of their day-to-day operations, capital markets offerings, and strategic transactions. She has also been recognized as a “One to Watch” Securities/Capital Markets Law (Dallas), 2023 and 2024 by The Best Lawyers in America©.
Experience Highlights
CrownRock, a joint venture of CrownQuest Operating and Lime Rock Partners, in its $12 billion sale to Occidental (In Process)
Baytex Energy Corp. in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Ranger Oil Corporation and $800 million offering of senior notes
Initial purchasers in the $1.2 billion offering of senior notes by Transocean Inc.; $325 million offering of senior notes by Transocean Aquila Limited; and $525 million offering of senior notes by Transocean Titan Financing Limited
Woodside Energy Group Ltd in its merger with BHP Petroleum with an approximately US $43 billion merged entity value and concurrent listing of American Depositary Shares (ADSs) on the NYSE
Pioneer Natural Resources Company in liability management transactions in connection with its $6.4 billion acquisition of DoublePoint Energy, including the redemption of DoublePoint’s $650 million principal amount of high yield senior notes with the proceeds of a $750 million public investment grade offering of senior notes
A leading international bank in its $500 million inaugural green bond offering
Bonanza Creek Energy in a merger to acquire HighPoint Resources Corporation, including a registered exchange offer and consent solicitation by Bonanza Creek for $625 million high yield senior notes of HighPoint Resources, and simultaneous registered solicitation by HighPoint of a prepackaged plan of reorganization under Chapter 11, which was followed by two subsequent out-of-court mergers and acquisitions by the combined company, resulting in a company with total expected enterprise value of $4.5 billion
Jonah Energy in connection with its out-of-court restructuring, which deleveraged the Company’s balance sheet by approximately $580 million through a combination of transactions including a cash tender offer for any and all of Jonah’s existing senior unsecured notes, the redemption of all non-tendered notes, a fully-backstopped equity rights offering to fund $85 million of new equity investment from all eligible existing noteholders, and entry into an amended and restated credit facility with an initial borrowing base of $750 million
Southwest Airlines Co. in its funding from the United States Department of Treasury of $4.93 billion under the Payroll Support Program of the CARES Act and the extensions of that program, and in its negotiations of the related loans, warrants, and other agreements
Routinely advises publicly traded companies on 1933 Act and 1934 Act compliance, listing exchange requirements, and ESG matters (including corporate governance and board of directors matters)
Pioneer Natural Resources Company in its $1.1 billion public offering of investment grade senior notes
A leading international bank in its $500 million inaugural green bond offering
Pioneer Natural Resources Company in liability management transactions in connection with its $6.4 billion acquisition of DoublePoint Energy, including the redemption of DoublePoint’s $650 million principal amount of high yield senior notes with the proceeds of a $750 million public investment grade offering of senior notes
Pioneer Natural Resources Company in its $1.1 billion public offering of investment grade senior notes
Southwest Airlines Co. in its $2.3 billion public offering of convertible senior notes
A multinational conglomerate in its secondary offering and concurrent private sale of common stock of a fullstream provider of integrated oilfield products, services and digital solutions
A major foreign financial services company in its U.S. senior and subordinated notes program
Enviva Inc. in its $250 million private placement of Series A convertible preferred units
Baytex Energy Corp. in its $800 million offering of senior notes
Enviva Inc. in its $100 million green bond offering
Initial purchasers in the $1.2 billion offering of senior notes by Transocean Inc.
Initial purchasers in the $525 million offering of senior notes by Transocean Titan Financing Limited
Initial purchasers in the $325 million offering of senior notes by Transocean Aquila Limited
CrownRock, L.P. in its $400 million offering of senior notes
Pioneer Natural Resources Company in its $1.3 billion 144A offering of convertible senior notes with a capped call and its concurrent cash tender offers for existing senior notes
Oaktree Capital in the purchase of a $497 million loan portfolio from Hancock Whitney, including reserve-based, midstream and nondrilling service credits
A commercial finance company in its 144A high yield offerings of senior secured and unsecured notes
The initial purchasers in the inaugural U.S. 144A/Reg S high yield offering of senior secured second lien notes by a foreign junior diamond mining company
The initial purchasers in the inaugural international offering by a South American sovereign of locally governed bonds and the dealer managers of a subsequent tender offer for the same bonds
Pioneer Natural Resources Company in liability management transactions in connection with its $6.4 billion acquisition of DoublePoint Energy, including the redemption of DoublePoint’s $650 million principal amount of high yield senior notes with the proceeds of a $750 million public investment grade offering of senior notes
Jonah Energy in connection with its out-of-court restructuring, which deleveraged the Company’s balance sheet by approximately $580 million through a combination of transactions including a cash tender offer for any and all of Jonah’s existing senior unsecured notes, the redemption of all non-tendered notes, a fully-backstopped equity rights offering to fund $85 million of new equity investment from all eligible existing noteholders, and entry into an amended and restated credit facility with an initial borrowing base of $750 million
The initial purchasers in a 144A offering of senior secured second lien notes by a coal mining company
Initial NYSE listing for a TSX-listed Canadian mining exploration company
Switchback II Corporation, a SPAC, in its $316 million initial public offering of units
Underwriters to AF Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, in its $224 million initial public offering of units
A foreign biotech company in its initial public offering and listing of American Depositary Shares on Nasdaq
CrownRock, a joint venture of CrownQuest Operating and Lime Rock Partners, in its $12 billion sale to Occidental (In Process)
Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation II, a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Riverstone Holdings, in its $1.2 billion business combination with Tritium, a Brisbane-based developer and manufacturer of direct current fast chargers for electric vehicles
Mubadala Investment Company, a minority owner of Virgin Orbit, a responsive launch space solutions company, in the $3 billion business combination between Virgin Orbit and NextGen Acquisition Corp. II
Bonanza Creek Energy in a merger to acquire HighPoint Resources Corporation, including a registered exchange offer and consent solicitation by Bonanza Creek for $625 million high yield senior notes of HighPoint Resources, and simultaneous registered solicitation by HighPoint of a prepackaged plan of reorganization under Chapter 11, which was followed by two subsequent out-of-court mergers and acquisitions by the combined company, resulting in a company with total expected enterprise value of $4.5 billion
The initial purchasers in acquisition financings and liability management transactions for a beverage services company
Credentials
- Osgoode Hall Law School, J.D. Bronze Medalist, 2014
- York University, I.B.A. History summa cum laude, 2010
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Securities/Capital Markets Law (Dallas), 2023–2025
- New York
- Texas
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