Mike is co-head of the firm’s Corporate Team. He has an extensive corporate securities and mergers and acquisitions practice that is focused on the energy industry. His practice includes a particular emphasis on representation of issuers and underwriters in energy-related public and private offerings of equity and debt securities (including IPOs); representation of buyers, sellers and special committees in mergers and acquisitions (domestic and foreign) and of private equity firms’ investments in energy and energy infrastructure; redemptions and exchanges of corporate debt; negotiating complex partnerships and joint ventures; structuring spin-offs and “going private” transactions; and corporate governance. Mike has also been actively involved in energy transition infrastructure projects, including CCUS infrastructure, and clean hydrogen and ammonia infrastructure, projects and voluntary carbon credits and the purchase and sale of low carbon intensity natural gas for blue hydrogen production. He has represented clients in connection with more than 575 public and private offerings of debt, equity and preferred securities and more than 290 acquisitions or divestitures to consummation.

Mergers & Acquisitions and Joint Ventures

• Paloma Partners VI Holdings, LLC and Paloma VI Merger Sub, Inc. in its acquisition of the Goodrich Petroleum Corporation
• Shawkwei & Partners in BSKP Merger Sub, Inc. and ZymeFlow Merger
• enCore Energy Corp. in its $120 million acquisition of the Alta Mesa In-Situ Recovery uranium project from Energy Fuels Inc.
• Colt Midstream in acquiring certain natural gas and liquids gathering and transportation systems
• Midland Petro DC Partners LLC and its affiliates in the negotiation and execution of definitive agreements for the $330 millon sale of non-operated working interests in certain oil and gas properties in the Midland Basin of Texas to Northern Oil and Gas Inc with proceeds used to reduce outstanding debt
• Midland-Petro DC Partners in its negotiation and execution of definitive agreements for the $29 million purchase of non-operated working interests in certain oil and gas properties in the Midland Basin of Texas from REPMC, LLCMidland-Petro DC Partners in its $225 million sale of non-operated working interests in certain oil and gas properties in the Midland Basin

• Crestwood Equity Partners LP in its $268 million strategic acquisition of acquisition of Crestwood Marcellus Holdings LLC, Crestwood Holdings LP and Crestwood Gas Services LLCs
• Sunlight Financial LLC in its $1.3 billion business combination with Spartan Acquisition Corp. II
• WGL Midstream Inc. in its sale of 30% of Stonewall Gas Gathering to DTE Midstream
• Royal Vopak and BlackRock’s Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund in the formation of a $620 million joint venture, Vopak Industrial Infrastructure Americas, LLC, and then in VIIA’s subsequent purchase of three of The Dow Chemical Company’s chemical storage terminals on the US Gulf Coast.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners’ $3.6 billion acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Oryx Southern Delaware Holdings LLC and Oryx Delaware Holdings LLC.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners’ $1 billion initial equity commitment to Discovery Midstream Holdings II LLC
• Sabine Oil and Gas Holdings, Inc. in its $610 million sale of Sabine Oil & Gas USA Corporation

Corporate Governance

• enCore Energy Corp.’s $120 million acquisition of Energy Fuels Inc.
• DCP Midstream, LP in its $3.8 billion acquisition by Phillips 66
• Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP's transition to New Calumet Corporation
• Shell USA, Inc.’s $1.96 billion acquisition of Shell Midstream Partners, L.P.
• Viper Energy Partners LP’s $75 million acquisition of overriding royalty interests in certain oil and gas properties from Diamondback E&P LLC
• DCP Midstream, LP in Phillips 66’s acquisition of all the publicly held common units representing limited partner interests in DCP Midstream.
• Rattler Midstream LP in its affiliate’s $160 million acquisition of water midstream assets from subsidiaries of Diamondback Energy, Inc.
• Pure Acquisition Corp. in its $1.575 billon initial business combination pursuant to which Pure effected a merger resulting in a newly formed and publicly traded company, HighPeak Energy, Inc.
• San Juan Holdings, LLC in a $64,200,000 joint venture between Arena Oil & Gas, LLC, Lime Rock Partners VIII, L.P., and AOP 4, LLC to form San Juan Offshore, LLC
• Quintana Energy Services, Inc. all-stock merger with KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc.
• Viper Energy Partners GP LLC’s and Viper Energy Partners LP with Diamondback Energy, Inc.’s dropdown of mineral interest assets to Viper Energy Partners LP for $700 million
• Roan Resources, Inc. with the $100 million commitment from certain affiliated lenders and Common Stock Subscription Agreement with such affiliated lenders
• Wing Resources V, LLC in its $100 million private initial equity capital raise from private equity investors
• InfraREIT, Inc. with the merger of InfraREIT, Inc. and InfraREIT Partners, LP with and into affiliates of Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC
• Shell Midstream Partners GP LLC with Shell Midstream Partners, L.P.’s 800 million acquisition of a 25.97% ownership interest in Explorer Pipeline Company and a 10.125% ownership interest in Colonial Pipeline Company
• Phillips 66 Partners LP(PSXP) with the elimination of all of Phillips 66 Co.’s IDRs and general partner economic interests in PSXP
• ArcLight Capital, in the sale of all the equity in Blue Hills Fuels, LLC consisting of over 200 Gulf, Exxon, Mobil and Sunoco branded, dealer operated retail motor fuel service stations

Capital Markets: Debt Offerings

• USA Compression Partners’ $1 billion of senior notes
• Energy Transfer LPs $3.8 billion of senior notes
• Energy Transfer LPs $4 billion of senior notes
• Energy Transfer LP's $1 billion of senior notes
• Genesis Energy, L.P.’s $500 million of senior notes
• El Paso Natural Gas of senior notes
• Energy Transfer LP’s $2.5 billion of senior notes
• Kinder Morgan, Inc’s combined $1.5 billon of senior notes
• Kinder Morgan, Inc’s $800 million of senior notes
• Kinder Morgan, Inc.’s $750 million of senior notes
• Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.’s $300 million of senior notes
• Kinder Morgan, Inc.’s $1.25 billion of senior notes. 
• Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.’s $500 million of senior notes
• Energy Transfer Operating, L.P.’s combined $4.5 billion of senior notes.
• Genesis Energy, L.P.’s $1.5 billion of senior notes
• USA Compression Partners’ $750 million of senior notes
• Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. ‘s $3 billion of senior notes
• Jagged Peak Energy LLC’s $500 million of senior notes
• Kinder Morgan, Inc.’s combined $2 billion of senior notes

Capital Markets: Equity Offerings

• Encore Energy Corp.’s $42 million public offering of common stock and warrants
• Energy Transfer LP’s $765 million secondary public offering by CenterPoint Energy Midstream, Inc.
• Energy Transfer Operating, L.P.’s public offering of $1.6 billion of preferred units.
• Perpetua Resources Corp.’s $57,500,000 offering of common stock
• NGL Energy Partners LP’s private placement of $400 million of class D preferred units and warrants.
• NGL Energy Partners LP’s private placement of $200 million of NGL’s class D preferred units and warrants.
• Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.’s $445 million offering of 7.625% series D fixed-to-floating rate cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred units
• USA Compression Holdings, LLC’s up to 5,000,000 of its common units. Representing limited partner interests in USA Compression Partners, LP.
• Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.’s $450 million offering preferred units.

Education
BS, The University of Alabama, Finance, cum laude, 1977

• Inbound U.S. M&A: Decline of the Dollar Attracts Foreign Buyers, Financier Worldwide
• JOBS Act Options for General Counsel to Ponder in IPOs, In-House Texas, A Publication of Texas Lawyer in Association with The General Counsel Forum
• Obama Administration Announces Financial Regulatory Overhaul
• Administration Unveils Over-The-Counter Derivatives Reform
• Congress Pushes Forward Executive Compensation Regulation and Say on Pay Legislation
• Summary of Key Differences Among PDP Securitizations, RBLs, VPPs, and High Yield Debt, Thomson Reuters Practical Law
• Oil & Gas Asset-Backed Securitizations, Thomson Reuters Practical Law
• AK Migration: SEC Proposes Rules to Implement the Dodd-Frank Act’s Mine Safety Disclosure Requirements
• AK Migration: Oil and Gas Companies Should Expect Increased SEC Scrutiny of Operations and Reserves
• FERC Declaratory Order Creates Uncertainty for Marketing Affiliates
• Pay Ratio Not Applicable to Certain Externally-Managed Issuers
• AK Migration: SEC Proposes Disclosure Rules for Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers
• SEC Proposes Pay Ratio Disclosure Rule
• SEC Re-Proposes Disclosure Rules for Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers
• AK Migration: DC Circuit Panel Vacates Proxy Access Rule
• AK Migration: SEC Replaces Credit Ratings with New Wide Market Following Test for Shelf Registration Statement Eligibility
• AK Migration: SEC Proposes Rules for Compensation Committees and Compensation Advisers
• SEC Adopts Rule Permitting Use of Form 10-K Summary
• SEC Issues Pay Ratio Disclosure Guidance
• SEC Staff Updates Proxy “Unbundling” Guidance for M&A Transactions
• SEC Proposes Pay Versus Performance Disclosure Rule
• SEC Charges Public Companies and Insiders with Violating Stock Ownership Reporting Requirements
• The Conflict Minerals Rule: Important Recent Developments
• AK Migration: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation Provisions
• Delaware Chancery Court Confirms an MLP’s Right to Contractually Eliminate Fiduciary Duties, Including the Duty of Disclosure
• 2019 Retail Industry Year in Review
• AK Migration: Recent Ruling Allows a Shareholder Lawsuit to Proceed After a Negative Say-on-Pay Vote: Quirk or Harbinger?
• AK Migration: PCAOB Considers Changes to Standards for Auditors’ Reports on Audited Financial Statements
• AK Migration: SEC Proposes Amendments to Issuer Repurchase Rule
• AK Migration: DC Circuit’s Proxy Access Decision to Stand, but SEC to Allow “Private Ordering” of Proxy Access
• AK Migration: PCAOB Floats Possibility of Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation
• SEC Adopts Rules Implementing Dodd-Frank Disclosure Requirements for Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers
• SEC Adopts Pay Ratio Disclosure Rule
• Dodd-Frank Rollback Begins – Congress Overturns SEC’s Resource Extraction Issuer Payment Disclosure Rule
• SEC Issues Partial Stay of Conflict Minerals Rule
• Conflict Minerals Rule Update: Court Denies Request for Stay
• SEC Charges Investors Participating in Going Private Transactions with Violating Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements
• SEC Provides Guidance on Dodd-Frank Conflict Minerals Rule
• Key Points For Lenders Taking Control Of Oil And Gas Assets, Law360
• Takeaways From SEC Comments On New Oil, Gas Rules, Law360
• Midstream Energy REITs: A New Structure
• Commentary: EPA Must Approve Primacy for Texas CCS Wells, Hart Energy