Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s portfolio in the oil and gas space includes supporting clients on the regulatory aspects of M&A and financing transactions as well as advising them on enforcement issues, compliance, and the development of LNG and pipeline facilities. Further areas of strength for the team are shipper contracts and appellate litigation alongside environmental matters and bankruptcy-related work. Brooksany Barrowes and Andrew Stuyvenberg are main contacts for the practice and are both noted for their experience handling regulatory and transactional matters before FERC and the DOE.
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Key clients
- Archaea Energy Inc.
- ONEOK, Inc.
- Gulfport Energy Corporation
- Global Infrastructure Partners
- Energy Transfer Partners
- EQT Corp.
- Devon Energy Corp.
- Civitas Resources
- MAS Energy, LLC
- Colgate Energy Partners III
- Producers Midstream, LP
- NexTier Oil Field Services
- Ovintiv Inc.
- I Squared Capital
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board
Work highlights
- Represented Gulfport Energy Corporation and certain of its subsidiaries in regulatory and appellate litigation arising from their Chapter 11 bankruptcy, including obtaining an order from the Fifth Circuit finding in favor of Gulfport and vacating certain FERC orders instituting a paper hearing and making public interest findings.
- Advised Global Infrastructure Partners on a major investment in Rio Grande LNG, an approximately $11.5bn LNG development project in Texas.
- Advised ONEOK, Inc. on its definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding units of Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $18.8bn including assumed debt, resulting in a combined company with a total enterprise value of $60bn.