Private Credit

• Nuveen in a $130 million holdco loan to a distributed power generation services company
• EIG Global Energy Partners, as lender, in a $265 million private placement with a traditional power generation company under a note purchase agreement
• HPS Investment Partners in a $75 million secured term loan to an upstream E&P company
• HPS Investment Partners in a $98 million secured term loan to Elk Petroleum Aneth, LLC to finance an acquisition of oil and gas assets
• HPS Investment Partners in a $150 million secured term loan to an upstream E&P company
• HPS Investment Partners  in a $150 million secured holdco delayed draw term loan to an upstream E&P company
• Angelo Gordon & Co. in a $140 million senior secured term loan to an upstream E&P company
• The Carlyle Group, as lender, in the issuance of $85 million senior notes to an upstream E&P company
• Riverstone in a $50 million term loan credit facility to an upstream E&P company
• Wells Fargo Strategic Capital in a $40 million holdco term loan agreement
• HPS Investment Partners in a $250 million secured holdco delayed draw term loan to a Permian-focused upstream E&P company
• Apollo Investment Corporation in numerous mezzanine loans and other structured investments to domestic oil and gas producers
• Stellus Capital Management in multiple preferred equity and structured debt investments in oil and gas producers
• Two mezzanine funds in a $1.25 billion loan with associated warrants for acquisition and development of oil and gas properties
• Crowley Holdings, Inc. in the issuance of $200 million of preferred equity

Syndicated Finance

• Societe Generale in a $500 million syndicated, reserve-based credit facility to an upstream energy company
• Large international energy company in a $3 billion revolving credit facility and term loan in connection with the spin-off of its California oil and gas business
• Antero Resources Midstream Operating LLC in a $500 million revolving credit facility
• Lario Oil & Gas Company in a $600 million secured revolving credit facility for parent company, O’s Companies, Inc.
• JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in a credit facility consisting of a $1.1 billion revolving commitment, a €50.0 million revolving commitment, and a $305 million term loan facility comprised of tranche A and tranche B term loans for global suppliers of products and services in the oil, gas, chemical, petrochemical, process, power generation, and military industries
• Caerus Oil and Gas LLC in a $400 million senior secured revolving credit facility
• Royal Bank of Canada in a $750 million senior secured revolving credit facility to Northern Oil and Gas, Inc
• Alon USA Energy, Inc. in a $250 million term loan facility and $240 million revolving credit facility
• JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in a $250 million unsecured revolving credit facility to a midstream MLP
• Tapstone Energy, LLC in a $250 million secured reserve-based credit facility in connection with the acquisition of oil and gas properties from Shell
• Triangle USA Petroleum Corporation in a $500 million senior secured revolving credit facility

Borrower Representations

• The Shaw Group Inc. on a senior secured term loan with Blue Torch Capital
• Felix Energy, an EnCap portfolio company, in a $925 million syndicated reserve based credit facility
• Joy Drive Midland, LLC, in a $200 million secured reserve based credit facility
• Antero Resources Corporation in a $1 billion revolving credit facility
• Nisource, Inc. in three credit facilities with an aggregate of $3.5 billion

Private Equity

• Atinum E&P, Inc. and certain affiliates in (i) a $150 million reserve-based revolving first lien credit facility and a $50 million second lien term loan for Atinum South Texas, LLC, (ii), a $150 million reserve-based revolving first lien credit facility and a $75 million second lien term loan for Atinum Marcellus I LLC, (iii) a $300 million reserve-based revolving first lien credit facility and a $150 million second lien term loan for Atinum Midcon I, LLC, (iv) a $750 million reserve-based revolving first lien revolving reserve-based facility and a $75 million second lien term loan for Atinum Energy Investments, LLC, and (v) a $750 million reserve-based revolving first lien revolving reserve-based facility and a $75 million second lien term loan for Tradition Resources II, LLC
• Sidewinder Drilling, Inc., an Avista Capital Partners portfolio company, in a $225 million bridge facility backstopping notes to finance the acquisition of Union Drilling, a publicly traded land drilling services and equipment contractor
• American Infrastructure MLP Funds and Landmark Dividend LLC, a national industry leader in the ground lease acquisition business, in Landmark Dividend’s $45 million revolving credit facility and $95 million advancing term loan credit facility for an affiliate of Landmark Dividend
• Tudor Pickering Holt & Co., LLC in a senior unsecured term loan
• Denham Capital Management in a $145 million preferred equity investment in  a geothermal power development company with one of the largest geothermal property portfolios in the United States

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