Corporate & Securities

• FirstEnergy Corp. in its $1.62 billion of Series A Convertible preferred stock
• Global Infrastructure Partners in its preferred equity investment of up to $200 million in Dos Rios Crude Intermediate LLC, a subsidiary of Noble Midstream Partners LP formed to hold Noble Midstream’s 30 percent equity interest in the EPIC Crude Pipeline
• Gray Oak Pipeline, LLC in its $1.4 billion debut offering of senior notes
• Underwriters for Green Bancorp, Inc. in its $45.1 million public offering by certain shareholders of its common stock
• Kinder Morgan, Inc. in its 2023 public offering of $1.5 billion of 5.200% senior notes
• Kinder Morgan, Inc. in its 2022 public offering of $800 million of 1.750% senior notes due 2026 and 3.600% senior notes due 2051
• Lilis Energy, Inc. in its $100 million preferred stock private placement
• Phillips 66 in offers in 2022 to exchange up to $3.2 billion of seven series of notes previously issued by Phillips 66 Partners LP for new notes issued by Phillips 66 Company and guaranteed by Phillips 66
• Phillips 66 in its 2023 public offering of $1.25 billion of senior notes
• Phillips 66 in the $600 million offering of floating rate notes of Phillips 66 exchangeable into floating rate notes of Phillips 66 Partners LP, the first offering by a sponsor of an MLP of debt securities that are exchangeable at the option of the sponsor into debt securities of an MLP
• PPL Electric Utilities Corporation in its 2023 public offering of $1.35 billion of its first mortgage bonds
• Sysco Corporation in its $1.25 billion offering of unsecured senior notes in 2021
• Textron Inc. in its public offering of $650 million of its notes in March 2020
• Underwriters for Tucson Electric Power Company in the offering of $350 million of registered senior notes
• Underwriters for UNS Energy Corporation in the offering of $325 million of senior notes in 2023
• Underwriters in a 2022 public offering by Veritex Holdings, Inc. of shares of its common stock resulting in gross proceeds of approximately $164 million
• Underwriters for Veritex Holdings, Inc. in the offering of $125 million of subordinated notes

M&A

• Allegiance Bancshares, Inc. in the 2022 merger of Allegiance Bank, with CBTX, Inc., the public holding company of CommunityBank of Texas, creating Stellar Bank
• Altus Midstream Company in the 2022 combination of Altus Midstream Company and privately owned BCP Raptor Holdco LP in an all-stock transaction
• Bison Oil & Gas II, LLC in its 2022 divestiture to Civitas Resources, Inc. for $346 million total consideration
• Carlyle International Energy Partners as finance counsel in The Carlyle Group’s acquisition of Occidental’s entire onshore portfolio in Colombia for a total consideration of $825 million
• Cornerstone Build Brands, Inc. in its acquisition of Prime Window Systems, LLC
• Driftwood Energy Operating, LLC in the 2023 sale of its Midland Basin assets to Vital Energy, Inc., inclusive of all leasehold interests and hedges, in exchange for 1,578,948 shares of Vital common stock and $127.6 million in cash
• General partner of DCP Midstream, LP in a transaction to eliminate all general partner economic interests in DCP and incentive distribution rights in DCP in exchange for 65 million newly issued DCP common units. The transaction had a total equity value of approximately $1.53 billion
• DT Midstream in a $750 million financing in connection with its spinoff from DTE Energy Company
• Evercore, as the financial advisor to the Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the general partner of Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P., in the 2022 definitive agreement and plan of merger pursuant to which an affiliate of Ergon, Inc. would acquire all of the outstanding common and preferred units of Blueknight not already owned by Ergon and its affiliates
• Harvest Midstream Company in its $1.125 billion acquisition from Williams Partners L.P. of certain assets in the Four Corners area, including over 3,700 miles of pipeline, two gas processing plants and a CO₂ treating facility
• Holly Energy Partners in its $2.6 billion combination with Sinclair Transportation
• J&J Worldwide Services in its sale to Arlington Capital Partners in partnership with J&J’s existing management team
• Kinder Morgan, Inc. in its $1.225 billion acquisition of Stagecoach Gas Services LLC, a natural gas pipeline and storage joint venture between Consolidated Edison, Inc. and Crestwood Equity Partners LP
• Phillips 66 in a 2023 definitive agreement with DCP Midstream, LP pursuant to which Phillips 66 will acquire all of the publicly held common units representing limited partner interests in DCP Midstream for cash consideration of approximately $3.8 billion
• Pioneer Bancshares, Inc., the holding company of Pioneer Bank, SSB, in its merger with FirstSun Capital Bancorp, holding company of Sunflower Bank, N.A. in an all-stock transaction
• Pioneer Natural Resources in the sale of approximately 20,000 net acres in western Glasscock County to Laredo Petroleum
• Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. in the $2.1 billion acquisition of LegacyTexas Financial Group, Inc., the second largest bank merger in the history of Texas ‒ M&A Transaction of the Year, 2020 Houston Outstanding Corporate Counsel Awards
• Sabalo Energy, LLC, a portfolio company of EnCap Investments L.P., in the $715 million sale of Sabalo’s Midland Basin Assets to Laredo Petroleum, Inc.
• Sable Offshore Corp. in its 2022 purchase from Exxon Mobil Corporation of the Santa Ynez field in Federal waters offshore California and associated onshore processing and pipeline assets, including pipeline assets acquired by Exxon Mobil from Plains Pipeline L.P. and the merger with Flame Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition entity
• Financial advisor to the Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the general partner of Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. regarding its agreement with its general partner to eliminate all incentive distribution rights and economic general partner interest in SHLX and an agreement with affiliates of its sponsor, Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell), to acquire Shell’s 79 percent interest in Mattox Pipeline Company LLC, which owns the Mattox Pipeline, and certain logistics assets at the Shell Norco Manufacturing Complex
• Sixth Street Partners in the $700 million acquisition in 2021 of equity interests in joint venture owning various energy products pipelines and related logistics assets
• Sol Systems LLC in a 2022 transaction that included a significant minority investment from KKR to scale the company’s Impact + Infrastructure approach
• Financial advisor to Conflicts Committee of Summit Midstream Partners in an agreement to prepay $100 million of a deferred purchase price obligation and fix the remaining obligation due in 2020 at $303.5 million and eliminate Summit Midstream Partners, LP economic general partner interest and incentive distribution rights in exchange for 8.75 million Summit Midstream Partners, LP common units
• Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the General Partner of Tallgrass Energy, LP in connection with a merger agreement pursuant to which affiliates of Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, together with affiliates of Enagas, GIC, NPS and USS, acquired all of the publicly held outstanding Class A Shares of TGE
• TC Energy Corporation in the approximately $1.275 billion sale of US midstream assets held by its subsidiary, Columbia Midstream Group, to a subsidiary of UGI Corporation

MLPs

• Financial advisor to the Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of 8point3 General Partner, LLC regarding 8point3’s entry into a definitive merger agreement with CD Clean Energy and Infrastructure V JV, LLC, an investment fund managed by Capital Dynamics, Inc., and certain other co-investors
• Financial advisor to the Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of Archrock GP LLC in the $307 million acquisition by Archrock, Inc of all the outstanding common units of Archrock Partners
• Financial advisor to the Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the general partner of Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P. in connection with the $90 million sale of three asphalt terminals located in Lubbock and Saginaw, Texas and Memphis, Tennessee to Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc.
• Financial advisor to the Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the general partner of CNX Midstream Partners LP in connection with the $265 million acquisition of 95 percent interest in the Shirley-Pennsboro gathering system from CNX Resources Corporation 
• Financial advisor to the Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the general partner of CNX Midstream Partners LP in a strategic transaction involving its sponsor, CNX Resources Corporation, and HG Energy II Appalachia, LLC
• DCP Midstream, LLC in a 2019 IDR simplification transaction that eliminated all incentive distribution rights in DCP Midstream, LP valued at $1.53 billion
• Harvest Midstream Company in the $1.125 billion acquisition from Williams Partners L.P. of certain assets in the Four Corners area, including over 3,700 miles of pipeline, two gas processing plants and a CO₂ treating facility
• Holly Energy Partners, L.P. in its $278 million acquisition from HollyFrontier Corporation of newly constructed crude, fluid catalytic cracking and polymerization units at HFC’s Woods Cross refinery
• Holly Energy Partners, L.P. in its acquisition from HollyFrontier Corporation of a 50 percent interest in Osage Pipe Line Company, LLC, which owns the 135-mile Osage pipeline that transports crude oil from Cushing, Oklahoma to El Dorado, Kansas
• Holly Energy Partners, L.P. in the IDR simplification transaction that will eliminate the incentive distribution rights held by its general partner and convert its general partner interest into a non-economic general partner interest in exchange for the issuance of common units of Holly Energy valued at $1.25 billion
• Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP in its $1.9 billion public offering of common units
• Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the general partner of Midcoast Energy Partners, L.P. in connection with the merger agreement between MEP and Enbridge Energy Company, Inc., an indirect subsidiary of Enbridge Inc., whereby EECI will acquire, for cash, all of the outstanding publicly held common units of MEP
• Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the general partner of Summit Midstream Partners, LP, regarding SMLP’s 2018 agreement to prepay $100 million of the deferred purchase price obligation and fix the remaining obligation due in 2020 at $303.5 million and eliminate SMLP’s economic general partner interest and incentive distribution rights in exchange for 8.75 million SMLP common units
• Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the general partner of Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP in connection with the acquisition of all of Tallgrass Energy Partner, LP’s publicly held common units  by Tallgrass Energy GP, LP in exchange for newly issued Class A Shares of Tallgrass Energy GP, LP valued at approximately $2.2 billion
• Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP in the $60 million acquisition of 2 percent membership interest in Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline, LLC and other administrative assets from Tallgrass Development, LP
• Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the general partner of Western Refining Logistics, LP in connection with merger with Andeavor Logistics LP in a unit-for-unit transaction valued at $1.8 billion