
Kristy L. Fields


Kristy’s practice focuses primarily on executive compensation and benefits. Her practice involves designing, negotiating, implementing, and administering a variety of executive compensation and benefits arrangements, including executive employment agreements, severance agreements, change of control plans, and deferred compensation arrangements, as well as equity-based compensation vehicles and incentive plans. She also advises public and private companies on compensation and benefits issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and a wide range of other transactions, domestic and international. Additionally, Kristy counsels publicly traded clients with respect to proxy statement disclosure and shareholder approval issues involving compensation arrangements for officers and directors.
The following is a list of representative matters in which Kristy has assisted.
Experience Highlights
Spartan Energy Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, in its business combination with Fisker Inc., a developer of eco-friendly electric vehicles
Executives of RS Energy Group, an innovative technology firm focused in the upstream oil & gas industry, in the acquisition of the company by Enverus, a leading energy SaaS and data analytics company
Clovis Point Capital in a majority investment in ZynBit.com and merger of ZynBit with Cirruspath, another Clovis Point portfolio company, to create a customer acquisition platform
Alpine Income Property Trust, Inc. in its $143 million initial public offering of common stock
Chisholm Oil and Gas in its strategic combination with Gastar Exploration to create a leading STACK E&P company
Direct Energy in its $300 million sale of Clockwork, a home services franchise platform, to Authority Brands
Clovis Point Capital in its growth equity investment in RIVS.com, a provider of interview technology
Berry Petroleum Corporation in its $183 million initial public offering of common stock
Clovis Point Capital in its acquisition of Cirruspath, a leading provider of sales enablement software
Energy Transfer Partners in the $60 billion merger with Energy Transfer Equity in a unit-for-unit exchange
Talara Capital Management in its $75 million line of equity commitment to Crescent Pass Energy Holdings
Wishbone Energy Partners in the $300 million sale (via $270 million cash and $30 million common stock) of its North Central Basin Platform assets located primarily in Texas and New Mexico to Ring Energy
Credentials
- New York University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2013 (Senior Executive Editor, New York University Law Review)
- Sam Houston State University, M.A., Forensic Clinical Psychology, 2008
- University of California, San Diego, B.A., Cognitive Science, 2006
- Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2020
- Texas
- New York
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