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Nettie Downs
Nettie Downs
Senior Associate — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions
E: ndowns@velaw.com T: +1.713.758.3221
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Senior Associate — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions

Nettie Downs

Nettie Downs
Houston
T: +1.713.758.3221
F: +1.713.615.5220

1001 Fannin Street
Suite 2500
Houston, TX 77002

E: ndowns@velaw.com
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Nettie Downs

Nettie’s principal area of practice is corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, securities offerings and general corporate representation.

Experience Highlights

  • Carlyle Power Partners in its acquisition, through a joint venture with EIG, of the 829 MW Panda Patriot and the 829 MW Panda Liberty power generation facilities in Pennsylvania

  • Gulf Coast Ammonia in the financing of a world-scale, hydrogen-based ammonia project in Texas, including the negotiation of equity financing agreements

  • HighPeak Energy Partners, LP and its affiliates in a $900 million business combination with Pure Acquisition Corp., a SPAC

  • Direct Energy in its $300 million sale of Clockwork, a home services franchise platform, to Authority Brands 

  • Riverstone Holdings in the formation of a new independent power producer, Onyx Strategic Investment Management I BV, and acquisition of a fleet of coal and biomass-fired power stations in Europe

  • Management team in obtaining equity commitments of approximately $30 million to form a new financial services company

  • Rubicon Oilfield International, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus, in its sale to Innovex Downhole Solutions

  • Global Atlantic in its acquisition of two utility scale solar projects in West Texas (250 MW) from a major developer

  • Maxar Technologies in its $3.6 billion merger with DigitalGlobe, creating a leading provider of satellites, earth imagery, geospatial data solutions and analytics

  • Devon Energy Corp. in the $3.125 billion sale of ownership interests in EnLink Midstream Partners and EnLink Midstream to Global Infrastructure Partners

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

  • Clean Line Energy Partners in the sale of its non-transmission development assets, including its interests in a 600 MW wind project and a series of utility-scale wind and battery storage development projects to ConnectGen, a portfolio company of Quantum Energy Partners

  • Petro Harvester Oil & Gas, LLC in its combination with White Marlin Energy Partners to form Rockall Energy, LLC

  • Plains All American Pipeline in a 50/50 joint venture, Cushing Connect Pipeline & Terminal LLC, with Holly Energy Partners, L.P., for (i) the development and construction of a new 160,000 barrel per day common carrier crude oil pipeline that will connect the Cushing, Oklahoma crude oil hub to the Tulsa, Oklahoma refining complex owned by a subsidiary of HollyFrontier Corporation and (ii) the ownership and operation of 1.5 million barrels of crude oil storage in Cushing, Oklahoma

  • Flywheel Energy Operating, a portfolio company of funds managed by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, in the equity financing for its $1.865 billion acquisition of all Fayetteville Shale and ARKOMA upstream and midstream assets of Southwestern Energy Company via the acquisition of 100% of the issued and outstanding securities in SWN Production (Arkansas) and DeSoto Gathering Company

  • Ranger Energy Services, Inc. in its $85 million initial public offering of common stock 

Credentials

  • University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D. cum laude, 2014 (Executive Editor, Journal of International Law)
  • The Lauder Institute, Wharton | Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, M.A., International Studies, MENA, 2014 (Director’s List)
  • Brigham Young University, B.A., Linguistics magna cum laude, 2011
  • Houston Bar Association Special Olympics Committee
  • Texas
  • Utah
  • Washington
  • Arabic (conversational)
  • Spanish (conversational)

News & Insights

Deals & Cases
Navitas Semiconductor, the Industry Leader in Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power ICs, to Go Public at an Enterprise Value of $1.04 Billion via Live Oak II SPAC Business Combination
May 7, 2021
Deals & Cases
Enerplus Agrees to Acquire Williston Basin Operator
January 25, 2021
Deals & Cases
Pure Acquisition Corp. Announces Business Combination Transaction
May 4, 2020
V&E+
A Groundbreaking Industrial Project on the Texas Gulf Coast Gets a Major Lift from V&E
March 13, 2020