
Nettie Downs

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

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
Live Oak Acquisition Corp. II, a SPAC, in its $1.4 billion business combination with Navitas Semiconductor, the industry leader in Gallium nitride power ICs
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 Financial Group 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
Plains All American in a strategic joint venture, Plains Oryx Permian Basin LLC, with Oryx Midstream, a Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners portfolio company, combining substantially all of Oryx’s assets with the majority of Plains’ assets located within the Permian Basin
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
ASX listed ioneer in the formation of a 50/50 joint venture with Sibanye Stillwater to develop the flagship Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project located in Nevada and related development and financing matters
Petro Harvester Oil & Gas, LLC in its combination with White Marlin Energy Partners to form Rockall Energy, LLC
Crowley Holdings in the closing with Global Infrastructure Partners of a $300 million preferred equity investment in Crowley Preferred Funding, LLC
Enerplus Resources (USA) Corporation on the acquisition of the issued and outstanding equity interests of Bruin L&P HoldCo, LLC, a pure-play Williston Basin private company, from Bruin Purchaser LLC for a total cash consideration of US$465 million
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
- Association of Women Attorneys Foundation Board of Trustees
- Houston Bar Association Special Olympics Committee
- Texas
- Utah
- Washington
- Arabic (conversational)
- Spanish (conversational)