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Michael Marek
Michael Marek
Senior Associate — Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets
E: mmarek@velaw.com T: +1.713.758.3314
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Senior Associate — Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets

Michael Marek

Michael Marek
Houston
T: +1.713.758.3314

1001 Fannin Street
Suite 2500
Houston, TX 77002

E: mmarek@velaw.com
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Michael Marek

Mike focuses his practice on corporate and securities transactions, as well as general corporate matters. He works with private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies, and a variety of other public and private companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and other strategic transactions. Mike has also assisted issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of equity and debt securities.

Experience Highlights

  • Blackstone in its acquisition of Sabre Industries from The Jordan Company

  • White Deer Energy and AXIOS Industrial Group, a portfolio company of White Deer Energy, in the merger between AXIOS and A&L Industrial Services, a portfolio company of Hastings Equity Partners

  • Management of Ascentium Capital, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus and the largest independent equipment finance lender in the United States, in its sale to Regions Bank

  • Gravity Oilfield Services, a Clearlake Capital portfolio company, in its acquisition of On Point Oilfield Holdings, a White Deer Energy portfolio company, creating the largest commercial produced water disposal company by injection volumes in the Midland Basin

  • Flywheel Bakken, formerly Valorem Energy, in its sale of non-operated assets to Northern Oil and Gas

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

  • Ashtead Technology Offshore, a Buckthorn Partners LLP portfolio company, in its acquisition of Aqua-Tech Solutions

  • Noble Midstream Partners in a $200 million preferred equity commitment from Global Infrastructure Partners to fund capital contributions to, Dos Rios Crude Intermediate, a subsidiary holding Noble Midstream’s 30% equity interest in the EPIC Crude Pipeline

  • Deep Gulf Energy Companies, a deepwater oil and gas exploration and development business operating in the Gulf of Mexico and a portfolio company of First Reserve, in its $1.225 billion sale to Kosmos Energy

  • Greenfield Midstream in a $300 million line of equity commitment to the company, focused on midstream infrastructure across North America, from EnCap Flatrock Midstream

  • Upstream-focused portfolio company in a $300 million line of equity commitment by an energy-focused private equity fund

  • Bluescape Energy Partners in the $40 million preferred investment in Riley Exploration – Permian, a Yorktown Partners portfolio company

  • Clearlake Capital Partners in connection with the restructuring and financing facilities of Knight Energy Holdings

  • Management of Ascentium Capital, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus and the largest independent equipment finance lender in the United States, in its sale to Regions Bank

  • An upstream private equity portfolio company in its formation of a joint venture with a midstream provider to develop oil, gas and water gathering assets in New Mexico

  • Blackstone in its $1.57 billion acquisition of an interest in the Rover pipeline project from a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners

  • Chisholm Energy Holdings in a $500 million line of equity commitment to the company, focused on oil and gas assets in the northern Delaware Basin, from Warburg Pincus

  • Castlerock Exploration in a line of equity commitment to the company by institutional investors

  • Omega Protein in its $500 million sale to Cooke, a global seafood company based in Canada

  • 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

  • Memorial Resource Development in its $4.4 billion merger with Range Resources 

  • RSP Permian in the $2.4 billion acquisition of Silver Hill Energy Partners and Silver Hill E&P II 

  • TransCanada Corporation in the $915 million merger of Columbia Pipeline Partners and Columbia Pipeline Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TransCanada

  • Enviva Wilmington Holdings in its $175 million sale  of Enviva Pellets Sampson to Enviva Partners

Credentials

  • The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2014 (Editor-in-Chief, Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, & Energy Law, 2013-2014)
  • The University of Texas McCombs School of Business, MBA with concentration in Energy Finance, 2014 (Sord Scholar Award and Dean’s Award Winner)
  • Stanford University, B.A., International Relations, 2009
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law (Houston), 2021 and 2022
  • Member: Texas Energy Law Association
  • Member: University of Texas Friar Society
  • Texas
  • Spanish (proficient)
  • “A Future for Reserve-Based Lending in Emerging Markets?,” 9  Tex. J. Oil Gas & Energy L., 2014 (co-author)

News & Insights

Deals & Cases
Sabalo Energy II Secures Initial $300 Million Equity Commitment From EnCap Investments
September 22, 2021
Deals & Cases
Black Knight Energy Receives $500 Million Equity Commitment from Kayne Anderson
August 17, 2021
Deals & Cases
Sinclair Oil Corporation to Combine Refining and Logistics Assets and Related Operations with HollyFrontier Corporation and Holly Energy Partners, L.P.
August 3, 2021
Deals & Cases
Taurus Industrial Group Acquires Amber LP
June 17, 2021