Capital Markets - Issuers

• Halliburton Company – $7.5 billion public offering of senior notes
• Valero Energy Corporation – Multiple public offerings of senior notes totaling $2.1 billion; multiple debt tender offers totaling $2.2 billion
• Insperity, Inc. – $143 million modified Dutch auction tender offer for common stock
• CenterPoint Energy, Inc. and operating subsidiaries – multiple public offerings of debt securities including senior notes and general mortgage bonds totaling $3.2 billion; secondary sales of common and preferred units of Energy Transfer; $341.45 million offering of securitization bonds by Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company; $1 billion private placement of convertible senior notes
• Chesapeake Energy Corporation – $2.2 billion up-tier exchange offer for second lien notes, $1.25 billion public offering of senior notes, $920 million exchange offer for senior notes; $616 million cash tender offer and consent solicitation for subsidiary notes
• Cleco Corporate Holdings, LLC and operating subsidiaries – multiple private placements of senior notes totaling more than $500 million; $425 million public offering of securitized storm recovery bonds
• Enable Midstream Partners, LP – $140 million follow-on equity offering, $700 million senior notes offering; $200 million continuous offering program
• Parker Drilling Company – $75 million concurrent offerings of common stock and mandatory convertible preferred stock

Capital Markets - Underwriters

• BP Midstream Partners LP – $765 million initial public offering
• NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc. – $150 million initial public offering
• Rice Midstream Partners LP – $380 million initial public offering
• Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC – $1.5 billion senior notes offering
• TransMontaigne Partners L.P. – $300 million senior notes offering
• Multiple continuous offering programs for public MLPs
• SemGroup Corporation – $233 million follow-on equity offering
• Rose Rock Midstream, LP – $80 follow-on equity offering

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Halliburton Company – Proposed $35 billion acquisition of Baker Hughes Incorporated and acquisition of Athlon Solutions, LLC
• Chesapeake Energy Corporation – $4 billion acquisition of WildHorse Resource Development Corporation
• Rockwater Energy Solutions, Inc. – $1.3 billion merger with Select Energy Services, Inc.
• RigNet, Inc. – $222 million acquisition by Viasat Inc.
• CenterPoint Energy, Inc. – $2.15 billion sale of Arkansas and Oklahoma natural gas LDC businesses to Summit Utilities
• bp p.l.c. – $870 million acquisition of BP Midstream Partners LP
• Shell USA, Inc. – $1.96 billion acquisition of Shell Midstream Partners, L.P.
• Ergon, Inc. and subsidiaries – $300 million acquisition of Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P.; acquisition of Associated Asphalt; acquisition of Resinall, a manufacturer of thermoplastic resins and polymers; acquisition of Mexican asphalt business of SemGroup Corporation
• Innophos Holdings, Inc. – $932 million acquisition by One Rock Capital Partners, $125 million acquisition of Novel Ingredients; $28 million acquisition of NutraGenesis
• Conflicts Committee of Noble Midstream Partners LP – $1.6 billion dropdown and IDR simplification transaction
• Conflicts Committee of PennTex Midstream Partners, LP – $280 million going-private transaction involving tender offer by Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.

Private Equity, PIPEs, Venture Capital and Other Matters

• Liberty Latin America Ltd. – Combination of VTR and Claro Chile in a 50:50 joint venture with América Móvil S.A.B. de C.V.
• EnCap Investments L.P. and other primary purchasers – $1.6 billion private investment in preferred equity of Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.
• Enable Midstream Partners, LP – $363 million private investment in preferred equity by CenterPoint Energy, Inc.
• Civeo Corporation – Redomiciliation to British Columbia, Canada
• Seventy Seven Energy Inc. – Emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Public Company Counsel

• Corporate counsel to Valero Energy Corporation, CenterPoint Energy, Inc., Insperity, Inc., Service Corporation International, Gulfport Energy Corporation, Cleco Corporate Holdings, LLC, Chesapeake Energy Corporation – Exchange Act reporting, proxy statements; NYSE and NASDAQ matters; board matters; corporate governance including “poison pill” rights plans; Regulation FD issues and Section 16 compliance