Michael Marek

Houston

T: +1.713.758.3314

1001 Fannin Street
Suite 2500
Houston, TX 77002

E: mmarek@velaw.com

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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

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