Haynes Boone Represents Earthstone Energy in Titus Acquisition

June, 2022 - United States of America

Haynes and Boone, LLP is serving as counsel to Earthstone Energy, Inc. in its acquisition of The New Mexico assets of Titus Oil & Gas Production, LLC and Titus Oil & Gas Production II, LLC and their affiliates (Titus) in a cash-and-stock transaction worth approximately $627 million, along with the associated committed financing of $400 million of incremental commitments to increase Earthstone’s elected commitments under its reserve based credit facility to $1.2 billion upon closing.

The Titus deal was announced June 28, 2022, and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2022.

The Haynes Boone deal team included Austin Elam, partner and Co-Chair of the Oil and Gas Practice Group; Partner Kim Mai; Associates Reem Abdelrazik, Camie Carlock McKee and Briana Hopes and Partners Michael Threet and Brandon McCoy.

"The Titus Acquisition continues our path of building scale in the Permian Basin, increasing our daily production to around 100,000 Boepd upon closing,” Robert J. Anderson, president and CEO of Earthstone, commented in a company release. “We had a goal of adding to our recently established Northern Delaware Basin position and are excited about this transaction and the drilling inventory we are acquiring as it is among the highest economic locations in the Permian Basin.”

Haynes Boone’s Oil and Gas Practice represents domestic and foreign public and private companies that conduct operations across the country in the domestic resource plays and shale plays (including the Midland and Delaware Basins, Eagle Ford, Barnett, Haynesville, Wolfberry, Marcellus, Utica, Niobrara, Woodford, and Bakken/Three Forks) and internationally. Haynes Boone received the highest ranking, National Tier 1, for its Oil & Gas Practice in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" directory.

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