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Alia Heintz Baker Botts Houston
Alia Y. Heintz
Special Counsel

Overview

Alia Y. Heintz is a special counsel with the Global Projects department in Houston. She counsels public, private and private-equity-backed clients on a broad range of energy related transactions. Ms. Heintz's practice focuses on acquisitions and divestitures of onshore and offshore upstream oil and gas assets, farmouts and other development arrangements.

Admissions & Affiliations

  • State Bar of Texas 
  • Houston Bar Association
  • Houston Young Lawyers Association

Education

  • J.D., University of Tulsa College of Law 2016
    with highest honor
    Editor in Chief, Tulsa Law Review
    Order of the Curule Chair
    Martin Fellows Smith Award
    Robert C. Butler, Jr. Award for Excellence in Legal Scholarship & Writing
    Phi Delta Phi
    Phi Alpha Delta
  • A.B., Economics & Psychology, Vassar College 2012

Experience

Acquisitions & Divestitures

  • BHP Billiton – $10.8 billion divestiture of U.S. shale assets located collectively in the Permian, Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Fayetteville plays
  • Murphy Exploration & Production Company – USA – $1.375 billion acquisition (with up to a $250 million contingent payment option) of offshore Gulf of Mexico assets
  • BP – $5.6 billion divestiture of BP's Alaska operations and interests to Hilcorp Alaska
  • International oil and gas company – $400 million acquisition of oil assets in the Alaska North Slope area
  • Civitas Resources (NYSE: CIVI) – Approximate $2.1 billion acquisition of oil producing Midland Basin assets from Vencer Energy, a Vitol investment*
  • Civitas Resources (NYSE: CIVI) – $2.25 billion acquisition of Midland Basin oil producing assets from Hibernia Energy III, a portfolio company of NGP Energy Capital Management*
  • Crescent Energy Company (NYSE: CRGY) – $600 million acquisition of Western Eagle Ford assets from Mesquite Energy, Inc.*
  • Private minerals company – divestiture of mineral and royalty interests in the Permian and Anadarko basins*
  • Tall City Property Holdings III, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus LLC – Divestiture of its Delaware Basin assets to Vital Energy (NYSE: VTLE) for $285 million in cash and 1.58 million common shares*
  • Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) – $330 million acquisition of a 36.7% working interest in certain oil and gas leases and wells and associated midstream assets and infrastructure in Midland County, Texas, from Midland-Petro D.C. Partners, LLC*
  • Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) – $110 million acquisition of Midland Basin oil and gas properties*
  • Diversified Energy Company plc (LSE: DEC) – $240 million acquisition of certain upstream oil and gas assets and related facilities in Oklahoma and Texas from ConocoPhillips Company (NYSE: COP)*
  • Stronghold Energy, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus LLC – $465 million divestiture of its Permian Basin assets to Ring Energy, Inc. (NYSE: REI)*
  • Red Bluff Resources and Bricktown Energy, portfolio companies of HPS Investment Partners – Divestiture of substantially all of their oil and gas properties to Citizen Energy*
  • Maverick Natural Resources – $440 million acquisition of certain producing properties in the Permian Basin from ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP)*
  • Warburg Pincus and Chisholm Energy Holdings LLC – $604 million divestiture of Chisholm’s Northern Delaware Basin assets to Earthstone Energy, Inc. (NYSE: ESTE)*
  • Elk Range Royalties, LP – Acquisition of royalty interests in the Permian Basin from an undisclosed seller*
  • HG Energy II Appalachia, LLC/Quantum – $400 million divestiture of certain oil & gas assets to an affiliate of Wincoram Asset Management*
  • Warwick Investment Group – $450 million acquisition of operated oil and gas assets in Texas's Eagle Ford Shale from Rosewood Resources and related drilling commitments*
  • Warburg Pincus and Hawkwood Energy – Hawkwood’s $650 million acquisition by WildFire Energy I*
  • Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc. (Nasdaq: XOG) – Approximately $2.6 billion all-stock merger of equals with Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc. (NYSE: BCEI) and Civitas Resources, Inc.’s $4.5 billion acquisition of Crestone Peak Resources*
  • HPS Investment Partners LLC – $32.96 million acquisition of Echo Energy Partners I LLC’s assets out of bankruptcy*

Farmouts, "DrillCo" Transactions, and Other Project Development Arrangements

  • Quantum Energy Partners – partnership with Bison Oil & Gas to form Bison Oil & Gas Partners IV, LLC with more than $500 million in equity capital commitments, and in closing multiple DJ Basin acquisitions*
  • International oilfield services company – counseling regarding multiple drillco/participation arrangements
  • Upstream portfolio company – joint development of certain assets in the Austin Chalk formation
  • Public energy company – farmout of certain Marcellus and Utica Shale assets

Initial Public Offerings

  • Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP – counseling regarding certain oil and gas issues for $104 million initial public offering of common units

* indicates matters handled prior to rejoining Baker Botts L.L.P.