
Michael F. Zarcaro Jr.

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

Michael is a member of V&E’s worldwide Energy Transactions and Projects practice group. His principal areas of practice are project development, project financings, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions.
Renewables
Goldman Sachs Renewable Power Fund in the $350 million acquisition from Marina Energy, a subsidiary of Southern Jersey Industries, of its solar portfolio comprised of 76 distributed solar energy projects with total capacity of 204 MW
MN8 Energy (Goldman Sachs Renewable Power) Fund in its investment in a solar portfolio
Global Atlantic Financial Group in the $1.175 billion acquisition from Southern Power of a 33 percent minority interest in its solar portfolio (comprised of 26 operating solar facilities representing approximately 1.7 gigawatts of capacity)
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
Devon Energy in its $100 million joint venture with Dow to develop a portion of Devon’s STACK acreage in central Oklahoma
Devon Energy in the $553 million sale of the southern portion of its Barnett Shale position
EP Energy Corporation in its drilling joint venture with Wolfcamp Drillco Operating to fund future oil and natural gas development in its Wolfcamp program
Felix Energy in its $2.5 billion cash and stock sale of the company to WPX Energy
ExL Petroleum Management, LLC, a portfolio company of Quantum Energy Partners, in its $648 million sale of certain acreage to Carrizo (Permian) LLC in the core of the Delaware Basin
Private oil and gas company in the $625 million acquisition of oil and gas assets in Utah
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
Blackstone in its $1.57 billion acquisition of an interest in the Rover pipeline project from a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners
Tellurian, Inc. in the development of the Driftwood LNG Project, a 5 train, 26 mtpa LNG export terminal in Louisiana, including the negotiation of a $15.2 billion EPC contract and long distance natural gas pipeline for natural gas supply
EagleClaw Midstream Ventures, a portfolio company of Blackstone Energy Partners, in a joint venture with Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, to construct and own the approximately $2 billion Permian Highway Pipeline Project
Summit Midstream in the $90 million sale of Tioga Midstream, a non-core gathering system in North Dakota, to affiliates of Hess Infrastructure Partners
Credentials
- Law School: The University of Chicago, J.D., 2016
- Undergraduate: The University of Chicago, B.A., Mathematics and Philosophy, with honors, 2008
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” (Houston): Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2024; Project Finance Law, 2024
- Texas
- Spanish (intermediate)
- Rankings & AwardsAugust 21, 2023
- Deals & CasesJuly 24, 2023
- Deals & CasesJune 15, 2023
- Deals & CasesMarch 2, 2023
- Deals & CasesJanuary 25, 2023
- Deals & CasesJanuary 24, 2023
- Deals & CasesSeptember 22, 2022
- Deals & CasesAugust 17, 2022
- Deals & CasesJune 1, 2022
- Deals & CasesMay 16, 2022
- Rankings & AwardsMarch 18, 2022
- Deals & CasesSeptember 15, 2021
- Deals & CasesMay 20, 2021
- Deals & CasesApril 1, 2021
- Deals & CasesFebruary 17, 2021