Overview

Zach represents clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, private equity investments, joint ventures, financings and project development transactions. Zach’s practice focuses primarily in the energy and infrastructure industries.

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Experience Highlights

  • Stonepeak in the acquisition from Ørsted of an approximately $300 million interest in a 957 MW portfolio of four U.S. onshore wind projects

  • MN8 Energy, a leading renewable energy and battery storage owner-operator in the US, in its agreement with Mercedes-Benz to deliver an open network of branded high-power charging stations in North America

  • Texas Central Partners as project counsel in the development of a high speed rail project between Houston and Dallas

  • Sixth Street Partners in the acquisition of a majority interest in Caliche Development Partners, which owns Golden Triangle Storage gas storage facilities located in Beaumont, TX, and the Central Valley Gas Storage facilities in Princeton, CA

  • Pacolet Milliken in an acquisition of 100% of the issued and outstanding membership interests of Anderson Wind Project from Special Situations Investing Group II, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs & Co.

  • MN8 Energy in the establishment of a financing partnership with ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT) to reduce upfront costs of EV charging technology

  • Galvanic Energy in its sale of leased acreage to ExxonMobil estimated to contain lithium products to supply 50 million electric vehicles

  • Archaea Energy in the formation of a joint venture with a waste management company for the development of landfill gas to renewable natural gas projects at various landfills located in the United States

  • NALA Renewables and Buckeye Partners in connection with the acquisition of and joint venture structuring for, the Swift Current Energy portfolio, a US portfolio of development wind and solar assets in excess of 10GW, including the construction and term financing and tax equity investments in the portfolio assets

  • Takkion, a portfolio company of Apollo Global Management, in its acquisition of Airway Services, a leading provider of operations and maintenance solutions to the renewable energy industry, from Northaven Capital Partners and Concentric Equity Partners

  • Trace Midstream, a Quantum Energy Partners portfolio company, in the $950 million sale of Trace’s Haynesville gathering and processing assets to The Williams Companies

  • Representation of National Renewable Solutions, LLC in the negotiation of an Engineering, Procurement and Supply Contract with GridWorks, Inc. for the development of a 140 MW photovoltaic solar generating facility and 200MW battery energy storage system  and the negotiation of a Megapack Supply and Installation Agreement with Tesla, Inc. for 200 MW of grid-scale storage

  • LSB Industries in its agreement with Lapis Energy for the development of a project to capture and permanently sequester CO2 from ammonia production at LSB’s El Dorado, Arkansas facility

Credentials

Education

  • Vanderbilt Law School, J.D., 2019 (Journal of Transnational Law, Articles Editor; Dean’s List; Securities Regulation Scholastic Excellence Award)
  • Vanderbilt University, Master of Science in Finance, 2019
  • University of Florida, B.S.B.A., Finance, cum laude, 2015

Admissions

  • Texas
News & Achievements

Deals & Cases

Vinson & Elkins Advises Goldman Sachs Alternatives on Acquisition of QScale

Vinson & Elkins represented Goldman Sachs Alternatives in connection with its acquisition of QScale, a leading Canadian developer and operator …

May 14, 2026

May 14, 2026 • 1-minute read

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Vinson & Elkins Advises Affiliate of Apollo Funds on Siris Acquisition of Majority Stake in TAKKION

Vinson & Elkins advised an affiliate of funds managed by Apollo Global Management, Inc. in connection with Siris’s agreement to …

March 9, 2026

March 9, 2026 • 1-minute read

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Vinson & Elkins Advises Plains Midstream on $3.75 Billion Sale of Canadian Natural Gas Liquids Business to Keyera Corp.

Vinson & Elkins advised Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (“PAA”), in its sale of substantially all of its Canadian natural gas liquids (NGL) business to Keyera Corp., for a cash purchase price of approximately $5.15 billion CAD.

June 17, 2025

June 17, 2025 • 1-minute read

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Vinson & Elkins Advises EQT on $1.8 Billion Acquisition of Olympus Energy Assets

Vinson & Elkins advised EQT Corporation in the acquisition from Olympus Energy, a portfolio company of Blackstone Group, of substantially all of Olympus’s upstream and midstream oil and gas assets in Pennsylvania for a mix of stock and cash consideration valued at $1.8 billion.

April 23, 2025

April 23, 2025 • 1-minute read

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Plains All American Announces Bolt-on Acquisitions, Capital Structure Optimization & Distribution Increase

Vinson & Elkins represented Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (Nasdaq: PAA) and Plains GP Holdings (Nasdaq: PAGP) (collectively, “Plains”) in connection with two bolt-on acquisitions.

January 9, 2025

January 9, 2025 • 1-minute read