
William F. White

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

Will’s principal area of practice is corporate finance and securities law, including securities offerings, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate representation. Will has worked as in-house corporate counsel at two leading private equity backed energy companies.
Experience Highlights
Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation III, a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Riverstone Holdings, in its $1.2 billion business combination with Solid Power, an industry-leading all-solid-state electric vehicle battery producer
Targa Resources Corp. in its $6.7 billion acquisition of Targa Resources Partners in an all stock-for-unit transaction
Venator Materials PLC in its $522 million initial public offering of ordinary shares by a selling shareholder and separation from Huntsman Corporation
Clearfork Midstream, a portfolio company of Encap Flatrock Midstream, in the acquisition of Azure Midstream Energy, a Haynesville Shale natural gas gathering and treating platform of Energy Spectrum Capital, and the related $400 million capital commitment from Encap Flatrock Midstream
Blackbeard Operating in its $180 million equity sale to Diversified Energy of Bluestone Natural Resources, which holds Barnett Shale oil and gas assets
Camino Natural Resources in its acquisition from Red Wolf Natural Resources of its operating subsidiaries Red Wolf Acquisitions and Red Wolf Operating
Luxe Energy in its sale to Colgate
Targa Resources Corp. in its $6.7 billion acquisition of Targa Resources Partners in an all stock-for-unit transaction
Nexeo Solutions, a chemicals and plastics distributor and TPG Capital portfolio company, in its $1.575 billion merger with WL Ross Holdings Corp. in a SPAC business combination
Energy-focused Private Equity Firm in a line of equity commitment to a newly-formed oilfield services company
Goodrich Petroleum in out-of-court restructuring transactions and in-court restructuring involving the deleveraging of nearly $450 million
HighStar Capital LP (Oaktree Capital) in its $240 million purchase of preferred units and 3.6 million warrant units from NGL Energy Partners LP
CSI Compressco LP in its $35 million private placement of Series A convertible preferred units and its $73 million private placement of Series A convertible preferred units
Underwriters to NGL Energy Partners LP in its $213 million public offering of Class B fixed-to-floating rate cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred Units
Targa Resources Corp. in its $1 billion private placement of Series A preferred stock
Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC in its $400 million offering of senior notes
Colgate Energy Partners III, LLC in its $500 million offering of senior notes
Continental Resources, Inc. in its $1.6 billion offering of senior notes
Venator Materials PLC in its $522 million initial public offering of ordinary shares by a selling shareholder and separation from Huntsman Corporation
Targa Resources Corp. in its $784 million public offering of common stock and its $530 million public offering of common stock
Hi-Crush Partners LP in its $56 million public offering of common units; its $49 million public offering of common units; its $413 million public offering of common units; and its $92 million public offering of common units
Underwriters to NGL Energy Partners LP in its $223 million public offering of common units; its $700 million offering of senior notes; and its $500 million offering of senior notes
A large international energy company in its $1.5 billion offering of investment grade senior notes and its $2.75 billion offering of investment grade senior notes
Underwriters to Weatherford International plc in its $1.5 billion offering of senior notes; its $1.3 billion offering of exchangeable senior notes; its $250 million offering of senior notes; and its $540 million offering of senior notes
Targa Resources Partners LP in its $1 billion offering of senior notes
Gran Tierra Energy Inc. in its $115 million offering of convertible senior notes
Credentials
- The University of Texas McCombs School of Business, MBA, 2021
- The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2015 (Editorial Board, Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law)
- Wake Forest University, B.A., Philosophy (Minors in Economics and Political Science), 2009
- Member: Houston Energy Finance Group
- Board of Directors: Rêve Preparatory Charter School
- Texas
- Spanish (proficient)
- Deals & CasesJanuary 18, 2022
- Deals & CasesDecember 16, 2021
- Deals & CasesDecember 8, 2021
- Deals & CasesNovember 22, 2021
- Deals & CasesJuly 13, 2021
- Deals & CasesJune 30, 2021
- Deals & CasesJune 15, 2021
- Deals & CasesJune 2, 2021
- Deals & CasesMay 20, 2021
- “Oil, Corruption, and the Department of Justice: FCPA Enforcement and the Energy Industry” Texas Journal of Oil Gas & Energy Law, 2014