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Vinson & Elkins works closely with waste and water solutions companies, recyclers, manufacturers, refiners, chemical companies, investors, and lenders to industrial participants around the world. From environmental and regulatory concerns to a full spectrum of transactional and corporate advice, V&E lawyers have a detailed understanding of the market conditions that affect the industrial sector.

Drawing on our market-leading experience in the renewables, waste and recycling, downstream, chemical and infrastructure sectors, V&E’s multi-disciplinary team provides comprehensive service to our industrial clients on all phases and aspects of their transactions and projects. V&E’s experience includes advising on financing, mergers and acquisitions, project development, tax, intellectual property, environmental and regulatory matters. Our lawyers advise participants in a full range of industries, including:

  • Energy Efficiency
  • Water Solutions Treatment
  • Water Technology Solutions
  • Liquid Waste Solutions
  • Environmental Services
  • Waste Services
  • Recycling Services
  • Plastic Recycling
  • Water Technology Solutions
  • Organic Waste
  • Green Chemistry/Bio-Chemicals
  • Green Industrial Products

Experience Highlights

  • LRS, an independent waste diversion, recycling and portable services provider, and Goldman Sachs, as lead investor in LRS, in the sale of LRS to an affiliate of Macquarie Infrastructure Partners

  • Crestview Partners in its investment in Upwell Water, a water-focused specialty finance company

  • Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures in its investment in the Series D Preferred Stock financing of Novomer, which develops and produces sustainable chemicals and polymers from plant-based and renewable feedstocks

  • Streamline Innovations, Inc., a company providing sustainable solutions for natural gas and water, as borrower in a $20 million senior secured, delayed draw term loan

  • Ridgewood Infrastructure in its formation of the $600 million Ridgewood Water & Strategic Infrastructure Fund

  • Ridgewood Infrastructure in a $79 million line of equity platform investment in Undine Group, a company that acquires, develops and operates regulated water and wastewater companies in the United States

  • Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures in an investment in OxyMem, a waste water treatment technology company

  • Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures in an equity investment in Typhon Treatment, a UV LED water treatment technology and equipment manufacturing company

  • Synagro Technologies, a portfolio company of EQT Partners, in the acquisition of Nursery Products, owner of a composting facility in Southern California

  • Clearsign Technologies, a leader in industrial combustion technologies that improve energy efficiency, in the defense of the consent solicitation and threatened proxy fight of MDB Capital

  • Goldman Sachs in a co-investment in a waste management company for a total investment of approximately $35 million

  • Ridgewood Infrastructure in its investment in Vista Ridge, a 142 mile pipeline that supplies approximately 20% of the fresh water for the City of San Antonio, Texas under a 30-year “take-or-pay” contract with the San Antonio Water System

  • Represented waste recycling companies in various state rulemaking proceedings and permitting matters

  • Counseled carbon nanotube manufacturing on compliance with federal Toxic Substances Control Act requirements applicable to nanotechnology uses

  • Advised water recycling company on all aspects of federal and state permitting and compliance issues in connection with the construction and operation of a $200 million wastewater recycling facility

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