Jamie Yarbrough

Partner

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Houston

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Jamie Yarbrough Baker Botts Houston

Jamie Yarbrough represents companies across a broad array of industries in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and general corporate concerns. Jamie has substantial experience assisting public companies in navigating complex transactions to achieve their strategic goals. He also advises clients on securities compliance issues, including Exchange Act reporting.

Related Experience

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

Education

J.D., The University of Texas School of Law 2014
with high honors
Order of the Coif
Research Editor, Texas Law Review
Chancellors

B.M.E., Music Education, Baylor University 2008
summa cum laude

Admission & Affiliations

State Bar of Texas