Lina G. Dimachkieh

Focus Financial Partners Inc. in its $235 million acquisition of Loring Ward Group Inc. and related restructuring 

Roan Resources in a reorganization agreement with Linn Energy to form Roan Resources, a new publicly traded pureplay company 

C&J Energy Services in its $265 million acquisition of O-Tex Holdings, a White Deer Energy portfolio company and provider of oilfield cementing services

Rice Energy in its $6.7 billion unwinding of its Up-C structure and associated merger with EQT Corporation

Select Energy Services, an affiliate of Crestview Partners, in its $1.3 billion merger with Rockwater Energy Solutions

Focus Financial Partners, an international partnership of wealth management firms, in an investment by Stone Point Capital and KKR that valued Focus at approximately $2 billion 

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

Antero Midstream Partners LP in its formation of a joint venture to develop processing and fractionation assets in Appalachia with MarkWest Energy Partners L.P., a wholly owned subsidiary of MPLX

Vantage Energy in its $2.7 billion sale to Rice Energy via an acquisitive Up-C structure

Patterson-UTI Energy in its $1.76 billion merger with Seventy Seven Energy

KLR Energy Acquisition Corp. in the $445 million combination with Tema Oil and Gas Company to form Rosehill Resources in a SPAC business combination

Huntsman Corporation in its $1.1 billion acquisition of the performance additives and titanium dioxide businesses of Rockwood Holdings

A large publicly traded company in the spin-off of one of its business segments

CVR Partners in the $533 million acquisition of Rentech Nitrogen Partners, creating a leading North American nitrogen fertilizer producer 

The Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of El Paso Pipeline Partners in the $76 billion acquisition by Kinder Morgan Inc. of El Paso Pipeline Partners, Kinder Morgan Pipeline Partners and Kinder Morgan Management

SCF Partners in its investment in Professional Directional Enterprises

Crestview Partners as lead investors in the $588 million merger of Matlin & Partners Acquisition Corporation, a SPAC, and U.S. Well Services, combining into a publicly listed hydraulic fracturing company

Riverstone Holdings in the $9.5 billion formation of Talen Energy Corporation, one of the largest independent power producers in the U.S., through a Reverse Morris Trust spin-off of PPL Corporation’s merchant power generation business and the concurrent combination thereof with Riverstone’s merchant power generation business and associated debt financings

SCF Partners in its investment in Hi-Tech Industrial Services, provider of integrated specialty services to the downstream energy, infrastructure and industrial markets

SCF Partners in its acquisition of BCCK Holding Company, an international natural gas engineering company specializing in nitrogen rejection

SCF Partners in the combination of portfolio companies to form Nine Energy Services, a provider of completion tools and services to support the development of unconventional and conventional oil and gas resources

Riverstone Holdings in its $5.2 billion take-private of Talen Energy Corporation, one of the largest independent power producers in the U.S. with a portfolio of power plants totaling approximately 16,000 MW, and associated debt financings

Riverstone Holdings in the acquisition by SunEdison of a 50% ownership stake in Silver Ridge Power, a Riverstone Holdings portfolio company and owner of solar power plant operating projects and a developing solar power facility

Focus Financial Partners Inc. in its $615 million initial public offering of common stock utilizing an Up-C structure

Liberty Oilfield Services, Inc. in its $249 million initial public offering of common stock 

Cactus, Inc. in its $503 million initial public offering of common stock utilizing an Up-C structure 

Antero Midstream Partners LP in its $1.15 billion initial public offering of common units

Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure, Inc. in its $121 million initial public offering of common stock utilizing an Up-C structure

WildHorse Resource Development Corporation in its $447 million initial public offering of common stock

Ramaco Resources, Inc. in its $81 million initial public offering of common stock

Underwriters to Antero Midstream GP LP in its $875 million initial public offering of common units by a selling securityholder

Parsley Energy, Inc. in its $1.1 billion initial public offering of common stock utilizing an Up-C structure 

Plains GP Holdings, L.P. in its $2.9 billion initial public offering of common units; transaction was the largest U.S. IPO in 2013 and represented the first use of an Up-C structure in the MLP space