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Michael Telle
Michael Telle
Partner — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions
Partner — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions

Michael Telle

Michael Telle
Houston

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

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Michael Telle

Experience Highlights

  • ProFrac Holding Corp. in its $288 million initial public offering of common stock

  • Goodrich Petroleum Corporation in its $480 million sale to Paloma Partners, an EnCap affiliate, in an all cash tender offer

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

  • Continental Resources, Inc. in its $1.5 billion offering of senior notes and its $1.6 billion offering of senior notes

  • ProFrac Holdings in its $407.5 million acquisition of FTS International, creating one of the largest completions-focused service companies in the U.S. oil and gas industry

  • Tidewater Inc. in the $190 million acquisition of Swire Pacific Offshore, creating the industry’s largest fleet of offshore support vessels

  • Underwriters to Southwestern Energy Company in its $1.5 billion public offering of senior notes

  • Harold G. Hamm in his acquisition of the remaining shares of Continental Resources, taking the company private

  • ProFrac Holding Corp. in its $288 million initial public offering of common stock

  • PermRock Royalty Trust in its $106 million initial public offering of trust units

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

  • Underwriters to EQT GP Holdings, LP in its $714 million initial public offering of common units

  • Enbridge Energy Management, L.L.C. in its $351 million initial public offering of common units

  • W-H Energy Services Inc. in its $165 million initial public offering of common stock

  • Chesapeake Granite Wash Trust in its $380 million initial public offering of trust units

  • Oil States International, Inc. in its $152 million public offering of common stock by a selling securityholder

  • Underwriters to Transocean Limited in its $400 million ATM program and sales agent in its $435 million ATM

  • Underwriters to Southwestern Energy Company in its $1.5 billion public offering of senior notes

  • Underwriters to EQT Midstream Partners, LP in its $400 million public offering of common units

  • Harold G. Hamm in his acquisition of the remaining shares of Continental Resources, taking the company private

  • Frank’s International in its merger with Expro Group

  • Goodrich Petroleum Corporation in its $480 million sale to Paloma Partners, an EnCap affiliate, in an all cash tender offer

  • ProFrac Holdings in its $407.5 million acquisition of FTS International, creating one of the largest completions-focused service companies in the U.S. oil and gas industry

  • Paragon Offshore Limited in the $232.5 million sale of the company to Borr Drilling Limited

  • Tidewater Inc. in the $190 million acquisition of Swire Pacific Offshore, creating the industry’s largest fleet of offshore support vessels

  • Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. in its $1.0 billion acquisition of American Petroleum Tankers LLC and State Class Tankers LLC

  • Sunoco Logistics Partners, L.P. in the formation of Permian Express Partners, a strategic joint venture with ExxonMobil to combine certain of their key crude oil logistics assets

  • Lufkin Industries Inc. in its $3.3 billion acquisition by General Electric Company

  • Chesapeake Energy Corporation in the $2.0 billion disposition of its interest in Chesapeake Midstream Partners, L.P.

  • W-H Energy Services, Inc. in its $3.1 billion acquisition by Smith International, Inc.

  • Flywheel Bakken (formerly Valorem Energy) in the $285 million acquisition of LINN Energy, Inc.’s Williston Basin interests

  • 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

  • Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Enbridge Energy Partners in the $170.2 million acquisition of all of the publicly held common units of Midcoast Energy Partners by Enbridge Energy Company

  • Enterprise Products Partners, L.P. in its $13.0 billion cash and stock merger with GulfTerra Energy Partners, L.P.

  • Alinda Capital Partners in its acquisition of a 50% interest in the general partner of Martin Midstream Partners L.P.

  • Initial purchasers in the $500 million offering of senior notes by Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP and dealer manager in its concurrent tender offers

  • Continental Resources, Inc. in its $1.5 billion offering of senior notes and its $1.6 billion offering of senior notes

  • Underwriters to Transocean Sentry Limited in its $525 million offering of senior notes

  • Underwriters to Transocean Poseidon Limited in its $550 million offering of senior secured notes

  • Underwriters to Transocean Inc. in its $750 million offering of senior notes and dealer manager in the $750 million exchange offer completed by Transocean Inc. and Transocean Ltd.

  • Oil States International, Inc. in its $200 million offering of convertible senior notes and its $135 million offering of convertible senior notes

  • Spectra Energy Partners, LP in its $800 million offering of senior notes by its subsidiary, Texas Eastern Transmission, LP

  • Underwriters to Southwestern Energy Company in its $1.5 billion public offering of senior notes

  • Underwriters to Nabors Industries, Inc. in its $575 million investment grade offering of exchangeable senior notes; its $800 million offering of senior notes; its $175 million debt exchange and initial purchasers in its $1 billion offering of senior notes and in its $700 million offering of senior notes

  • Underwriters to NGL Energy Partners LP in its $700 million offering of senior notes; its $500 million offering of senior notes and its $450 million offering of senior notes

  • Underwriters to Waste Management, Inc. in its $500 million offering of investment grade senior notes

Credentials

  • South Texas College of Law, J.D. summa cum laude, 1994
  • Texas Tech University, M.S. summa cum laude, 1991
  • Texas Tech University, B.B.A., Economics cum laude, 1990
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), Corporate Law (Houston), 2016−2023
  • Legal 500 U.S., Finance: Capital Markets: Debt Offerings, 2015; Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings, 2015 and 2021; Energy: Transactions, 2015; Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Large Deals ($1–5 billion), 2014
  • Chambers USA, Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Texas), 2013–2019, 2021, and 2022; Corporate/M&A (Texas), 2011–2015 and 2019; Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional) (Texas), 2010–2011; Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Central United States)(Nationwide), 2019–2022
  • Chambers Global, Capital Markets: Debt and Equity (Central USA), 2020–2023
  • Selected to the 500 Leading Energy Lawyers, Lawdragon, 2023
  • Selected to the Texas Super Lawyers list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2008–2017
  • IFLR1000, 2020–2022
  • Texas