Travis J. Wofford

Travis has broad mergers and acquisitions and capital markets experience spanning numerous transaction structures. Notable transactions include representing:*

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Sunnova Energy International, Inc. in its $325 million acquisition of SunStreet, the residential solar platform of Lennar Corporation, and related exclusive strategic partnership arrangement
• Special Committee of Barnes & Noble Inc. in its $683 million sale to Elliot Advisors
• McDermott International, Inc. in its $6 billion acquisition of Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V.
• Mark Tkach and William Coulter in their successful proxy contest to replace the CEO, COO and a majority of the board of RumbleOn
• Schlumberger Limited in its $14 billion acquisition of Cameron International Corporation
• Halliburton Company in its proposed $35 billion acquisition of Baker Hughes Incorporated
• Conflicts Committee of Williams Partners L.P. in its $10.5 billion acquisition by The Williams Companies Inc., its prior proposed $13.8 billion acquisition by The Williams Companies Inc. (resulting in receipt of a $428 million buyer termination fee), its $50 billion merger with Access Midstream Partners, L.P. and its $11.4 billion simplification of incentive distribution rights and general partner interest and related $1.8 billion private placement
• Conflicts Committee of Arc Logistics Partners LP in its sale to Zenith Energy U.S. LP and Warburg Pincus LLC
• Various private investments by Liberty Media Corporation and other associated companies
• Sunnova Energy Corporation in acquisitions of distributed generation residential solar assets
• Chesapeake Energy Corporation in acquisitions and dispositions aggregating $2 billion in value, including the sale of upstream oil and gas assets in the Western Anadarko Basin to private equity investors and various sales of compression assets
• LINN Energy in its $2.3 billion acquisition of drilling assets from Devon Energy
• Ascent Capital Group in its merger with its subsidiary Monitronics International and the related Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Monitronics
• Qurate Retail Inc. in the disposition of its indirect stake in FTD Companies Inc.
• Independent directors of JDA Software Group in its $2 billion leveraged buyout by New Mountain Capital
• IBM in its $850 million divestiture of its point-of-sale technology business to Toshiba
• Lindsay Goldberg in its purchase from Lockheed Martin Corporation and other investors of Pacific Architects and Engineers Inc. and Defense Support Services
• Barnes & Noble in the joint venture and strategic investment by Microsoft in its NOOK business
• Civeo Corporation in its redomestication from Texas to British Columbia
• Various private businesses in deadlock resolutions with minority investors, including buyouts

Capital Markets/Securities

• Sunnova Energy International, Inc. in its initial public offering and subsequent follow-on common stock offerings and PIPE private placements of convertible notes
• Sunnova Energy International, Inc. in more than a dozen securitizations of residential solar assets, tax equity interests, renewable energy credits and tax attributes, including a $3 billion conditional loan commitment from the Department of Energy, its first asset-backed securitization collateralized by a pool of distributed generation solar assets, its first loan-backed securitization collateralized by a pool of consumer loans and its first delayed-draw private placement securitization facility layered over tax equity facilities
• Various parties to SPAC IPOs, including Liberty Media in its inaugural SPAC initial public offering of Liberty Media Acquisition Corp., the first public-company-sponsored corporate-finance SPAC; SHUAA Partners Acquisition Corp I in its $111 million SPAC IPO; the underwriters in Clean Earth Acquisitions Corp.’s $200 million SPAC IPO and the underwriters in Seaport Calibre Materials Acquisition Corp.’s $130 million SPAC IPO
• Private energy company in its securitization of oil and gas interests (private rating)
• Renewable energy company in various high yield bond and convertible bond offerings and subsequent liability management transactions
• Qurate Retail Inc. in its $2 billion dividend to public stockholders of a new class of cumulative redeemable preferred stock and cash
• Dr. Pepper Snapple Group in its $400 million private offering of senior notes and related $250 million tender offer and redemption of outstanding senior notes
• Renewable energy company in various private company financings, including Series A, B and C fundraising rounds, convertible notes and recapitalizations
• Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. in various debt and equity offerings, including its aggregate $300 million Delaware Basin asset acquisition financing (including a preferred stock PIPE private placement to GSO Capital Partners and registered offerings of senior notes and common stock), its $300 million senior notes private offering to finance an acquisition of Eagle Ford assets, its $550 senior notes offering and related tender offer and redemption of outstanding senior notes, and various other offerings of senior notes and common stock
• Jones Energy, Inc. in its public offering of convertible preferred stock and concurrent public offering of common stock
• McDermott International, Inc. in its PIPE private placement of $300 million of redeemable preferred stock and warrants
• Helix Energy Solutions Group in its $125 million public offering of convertible senior notes
• Linn Energy, LLC in its privately-negotiated exchanges of $2 billion outstanding senior unsecured notes for $1 billion of newly issued senior secured second lien notes and its $1.0 billion bridge term loan facility and $1.1 billion public offering of senior notes in connection with its $2.3 billion asset acquisition from Devon Energy Corporation
• Noble Corporation plc in its public offering of senior notes and related $750 million cash tender offer for outstanding senior notes
• Westlake Chemical in a $500 million senior notes offering
• Initial purchasers in the $1.45 billion private offering of senior secured second lien notes by Energy XXI Ltd
• Initial purchasers in the $1.50 billion private offering of senior notes by Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC
• Underwriters in Summit Midstream Holdings' $500 million public offering of senior notes and related cash tender offer for outstanding senior notes
• Initial Purchasers in an $800 million senior notes offering by Texas Eastern Transmission, LP, a subsidiary of Spectra Energy Partners, LP
• Initial purchaser and dealer manager in Chesapeake Energy Corporation's $2 billion public offering of senior notes and related tender offer/consent solicitation for outstanding senior notes and a $1.1 billion PIPE private placement of cumulative non-voting convertible preferred stock
• Crown Castle International, Inc. in securitizations of cell phone towers for an aggregate $3.4 billion of Senior Secured Tower Revenue Notes
• Underwriters in various common stock offerings, including Tesco Corporation, Core Laboratories

* Includes matters handled prior to joining Baker Botts L.L.P.