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Kristy L. Fields
Kristy L. Fields
Senior Associate — Executive Compensation & Benefits
E: kfields@velaw.com T: +1.713.758.3385
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Senior Associate — Executive Compensation & Benefits

Kristy L. Fields

Kristy L. Fields
Houston
T: +1.713.758.3385
F: +1.713.615.5536

1001 Fannin Street
Suite 2500
Houston, TX 77002

E: kfields@velaw.com
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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 and 2021
  • Texas
  • New York

News & Insights

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Bird Rides, Inc. to Become a Public Company via Merger with Switchback II Corporation
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies
May 12, 2021
Deals & Cases
EnCap Investments L.P. Closes $1.2 Billion Energy Transition Fund
Energy Evolution
May 4, 2021
Deals & Cases
Hellman & Friedman to Acquire a Majority Stake in Enverus
April 13, 2021
Deals & Cases
Enerplus to Acquire Strategic Williston Basin Assets from Hess Corporation
April 8, 2021