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Chambers USA: Private Equity: Buyouts: High-end Capability (Nationwide), 2023–2025
Vinson & Elkins counsels sophisticated private equity funds in their most complex transactions across nearly all industries and sectors. Our broad private equity client base consists of middle market funds to many of the world’s leading private equity and venture capital funds. Vinson & Elkins’ Private Equity team leverages the firm’s global footprint across major financial centers to execute our private equity clients’ most important deals.
The Legal 500 US: M&A/Corporate & Commercial – Private Equity Buyouts, 2018–2025
The Legal 500 US: M&A/Corporate & Commercial – M&A – Large Deals: $1bn+, 2018–2025
Comprehensive Private Equity Capabilities
Vinson & Elkins represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a broad range of transactions in every phase of the investment life cycle, including:
- Fund formation and fundraising
- Management team placements
- Growth equity transactions
- Acquisitions, investments, and dispositions
- Leveraged buyouts and going private transactions
- Carve-outs
- Line of equity commitments
- Mezzanine finance
- Distressed investments
- Joint ventures
- Exits, including IPOs
The Private Equity team seamlessly integrates with the firm’s leading Capital Markets and Finance practices, helping our clients efficiently access both public and private sources of debt and equity capital. Vinson & Elkins clients also benefit from access to our other internationally recognized specialty practices, such as Tax, Regulatory, and Environmental.
Energy Private Equity Innovator
Vinson & Elkins has a world-class reputation in energy and is a leader in energy private equity, including renewable energy. The firm represents many leading energy-focused private equity sponsors and generalist buyout firms on their energy investments. Vinson & Elkins’ Private Equity lawyers pioneered the line of equity commitment structure in the energy space, and have been involved in some of the most complex, high-value leveraged buyouts in the industry.
Experience Highlights
Takanock, a provider of innovative digital and power infrastructure solutions, in new capital commitments totaling $500 million from ArcLight and DigitalBridge
Sitio Royalties Corp. in its $4.1 billion merger with Viper Energy (in process)
Apollo Global Management in the acquisition of a majority stake in OEG Energy Group, a leading offshore energy solutions business, with an implied headline valuation of more than $1 billion for OEG
Double Eagle IV MidCo, LLC, a private company backed by EnCap Investments L.P., in its entry into a definitive agreement to sell certain of its subsidiaries and assets to Diamondback E&P, LLC (NASDAQ: FANG), in exchange for approximately 6.9 million shares of FANG common stock and $3 billion of cash consideration, subject to customary adjustments
Affiliates of Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. in its preferred equity commitment of $1+ billion to Origis USA, a portfolio company of Antin Infrastructure Partners
Riverstone Holdings in the sale of its equity stake in Pattern Energy Group to a consortium headed by APG Asset Management and Australian Retirement Trust (ART)
FourPoint Resources and Quantum Capital Group, in partnership with Kayne Anderson Capital Partners, in their $2 billion acquisition of Ovintiv’s (NYSE, TSX: OVV) Uinta Basin assets
EQT Corporation in the $1.8 billion acquisition of upstream and midstream oil and gas assets in Pennsylvania from Olympus Energy (pending)
Global Infrastructure Partners, a leading global infrastructure investor, in connection with its approximately $2.6 billion all cash sale of Medallion Midstream Partners, LLC to ONEOK, INC. (NYSE: OKE)
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