Experience | Will M. Thanheiser | Professionals

Will M. Thanheiser is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department in Houston. He advises clients in private equity transactions in the financial and energy industries. He has a broad experience in M&A and joint venture transactions, including structured control and minority investments.

Selected Significant Matters

Represented Oak Street Real Estate Capital in its $1.6 billion acquisition by Blue Owl Capital
Represented Lime Rock Partners and its portfolio company, Axis Energy Services, in its agreement to acquire, as stalking horse bidder, substantially all of Basic Energy’s well servicing and completion and remedial segment assets
Represented Juniper Capital in its $188 million strategic investment in independent oil and gas company Penn Virginia
Represented Oaktree Capital Management L.P. in connection with a $2 billion strategic partnership with an affiliate of Diversified Gas & Oil PC to jointly identify and acquire producing oil and gas assets in the continental United States
Represented Capital Constellation in its $150 million strategic partnership with Ara Partners Group, whereby Capital Constellation acquired a substantial minority ownership interest in Ara Partners and provide the firm and its affiliates with significant investment capital
Represented Carnelian Energy Management in connection with multiple equity commitments to its upstream oil and gas companies, including SandPoint Resources and Veritas Permian II, LLC
Represented a private US developer and operator in the equity financing of two renewable natural gas projects, each related to developing and constructing a waste-to-energy facility at an industrial scale dairy farm
Represented Springbok Energy Partners in the sale of mineral and royalty interests to Kimbell Royalty Partners for $175 million
Represented the management teams of Percussion Petroleum II, LLC, Hawthorne Energy, LLC and Ridgemar Energy, LLC in connection with line of equity commitments from funds managed by Carnelian Energy Capital
Represented Colony Capital in connection with the formation of Alpine Energy Capital, LLC to provide capital and asset management solutions to the U.S. upstream oil and gas industry
Represented funds managed by Kayne Anderson in connection with an agreement with funds managed by Warburg Pincus to provide a $1 billion equity commitment to WildFire Energy I, LLC
Represented funds managed by Kayne Anderson in connection with an equity commitment to Ensign Resources in the acquisition of Eagle Ford shale acreage from Pioneer Natural Resources
Represented Glendale Energy Ventures in its $500 million joint venture platform with TPG Sixth Street Partners to pursue acquisitions of non-operated oil and gas properties
Represented Juniper Capital in a variety of equity-line and joint venture transactions
Represented Denham Capital Management LP in its development of an equity line commitment structure for portfolio companies investing in mineral and royalty interests, including Denham’s equity line commitment to Horizon Resources
Represented Lime Rock Partners in its line of equity commitment to Wayfinder Resources, a company formed to execute a strategy of acquiring non-operated positions in select areas of the SCOOP, STACK and Merger plays
Represented Trilogy Midstream in its strategic partnership with NGP, a platform dedicated to midstream development and acquisition projects
Represented Andros Capital Partners in its $150 million Permian Basin drilling joint venture
Represented Laredo Petroleum in its acquisition of Midland Basin Assets from Sabalo Energy (and a non-operating partner) for approximately $715 million, an acquisition that involved consideration consisting of both cash and Laredo common stock

Selected Publications and Lectures

Note & Comment: Revisiting the Executive Right Holder’s Authority to Pool Non-Executive Interests, Texas Journal of Oil, as & Energy Law, Spring 2014

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