Akin Advises ePointZero in $2.25 Billion Acquisition of Traverse Midstream Partners

(Dallas, Houston and Abu Dhabi) – Akin advised ePointZero, a global platform focused on specialized energy infrastructure, a subsidiary of 2PointZero Group, in the closing of its acquisition of Traverse Midstream Partners, LLC, a portfolio company of The Energy & Minerals Group, a specialized natural resources private equity firm, for $2.25 billion in an all-cash transaction. 

The Akin team was led by co-head of the firm's energy practice Wesley Williams, energy partner Leana Garipova and partner in charge of the Abu Dhabi office and leader of Akin’s M&A and corporate law practices in the Middle East Wael Jabsheh.

Additional support was provided by:

• energy partner Cole Bredthauer, counsel Philip Reyneke and Michael Daus and associates Samuel Lombardo and Andrea Cabada;
• corporate partners Ashton Butcher and Sarah Withers, counsel Rhylee Azevedo and associates Paxton Merrill, Mickayla Carey and John Wittman;
• finance partner Chad Nichols and counsel Gerry Griffith II;
• international corporate partner Kevin Gilroy, senior counsel Ash Tehrani, counsel Mazen Baddar and associates Jing Wen So and Toni Prskalo;
• tax partners Alison Chen and Sam Riesenberg and associate Samir Halawi;
• energy regulation, markets & enforcement partner Emily Mallen and associate Sharmila Das;
• international trade partners Alexis Guinan and Melissa Schwartz, counsel Atsushi Oshima and associate Eveline Liu;
• leader of the firm’s CFIUS practice Christian Davis;
• labor & employment partner Lauren Leyden, counsel Alex Lau and associate Jeremy Gerstenhaber;
• environment & natural resources head David Quigley and senior counsel Andrew Oelz;
• intellectual property partner David Lee and associate Shivani Prakash; and
• antitrust & international competition partners Scott Pettifor and Brian Rafkin.

Additional details on the transaction can be found here.

Akin is a leading international law firm with more than 1,100 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

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