Recognizing how market changes are creating both challenges and opportunities, our interdisciplinary team advises clients on acquisitions that have arisen due to the current depressed commodity price environment. We also represent distressed companies in the energy sector, their lenders and creditors, and other investors

Client Successes

• Represented Tall Oak Midstream, an EnCap Flatrock portfolio company, in its US$1.55B sale of assets to EnLink Midstream Partners, LP and EnLink Midstream, LLC

• Representing RBC, as agent for senior secured revolving lenders in the out-of-court work-out of Sandridge Energy

• Represented Vanguard Natural Resources, an upstream MLP, in its US$614M public-to-public merger with Eagle Rock Energy Partners, LP

• Represented Conflicts Committee of Crestwood Midstream Partners LP, a midstream MLP, in its US$7.5B public-to-public merger with Crestwood Equity Partners LP

Strategic Counsel for the Oil and Gas Industry

Our Oil and Gas practice provides innovative yet practical legal counsel to clients across all sectors of the industry. We have the industry knowledge, depth of legal disciplines, and geographic reach to guide our clients through today’s complex network of subsidies, supports, tax treatments, and regulatory markets – and help them achieve success.

Innovative, Yet Practical Legal Counsel

• We advise upstream, midstream, oil field services, and financial services firms on M&A and divestitures, corporate and tax structuring, and capital markets matters – including some of the largest deals in the industry.

• Our lawyers represent banks and other financial institutions in a wide array of financings across all parts of the capital structure.

• We represent oil and gas companies in civil litigation and advise them on regulatory matters.

• Our team provides efficient solutions for the structuring and financing of public and private transactions involving limited partnerships and limited liability companies, including master limited partnerships.