• Represented DEA Deutsche Erodel AG in its acquisition of Sierra Oil and Gas for more than $500 million, including the Zama discovery and six exploration and appraisal blocks, offshore Mexico.
• Advised Diamondback Energy in connection with its $9.2 billion all-stock merger with Energen Corporation.
• Advised Stone Energy Corporation in its $2.5 billion merger with Talos Energy Corporation.
• Represented Gulfport Energy Corporation in its $1.85 billion acquisition of SCOOP exploration and production assets from Vitruvian Exploration.
• Advised Diamondback Energy in connection with its $620 million “drillco” transaction with an affiliate of The Carlyle Group.
• Represented EOG Resources in its $400 million “drillco” transaction with an affiliate of The Carlyle Group.
• Represented Kinder Morgan in its $38 billion merger with El Paso Corporation.
• Represented Kinder Morgan in the $7.15 billion sale of an exploration and production business unit of El Paso Corporation, including offshore Brazilian assets; concessions in Egypt’s Western Desert; and assets in the Eagle Ford Shale, Permian Basin, Haynesville Shale, Black Warrior Basin, Uintah Basin, Raton Basin, Powder River Basin and Gulf of Mexico.
• Represented Apache Corporation in the $7 billion acquisition of exploration and production assets in Canada (Alberta and British Columbia), Texas and Egypt from BP.

Operating Agreements, Unitizations, and Infrastructure

• Represented a major, international energy company in connection with the structuring and negotiation of a joint development zone project.
• Represented Apache Corporation in connection with multiple joint operating agreements, offshore Suriname.
• Represented a publicly traded international energy company in connection with a unitization, offshore Mexico.
• Represented an international, integrated energy company in connection with a deepwater production handling and processing agreement.
• Represented a publicly traded superindependent in connection with multiple cost-of-service gathering and processing agreements, onshore United States.
• Represented multiple major, integrated energy companies in the negotiation of more than 50 deepwater Gulf of Mexico operating agreements.
• Represented a major, integrated energy company in multiple joint operating agreements governing deepwater operations, offshore Ivory Coast, Ghana and Sierra Leone.
• Advised a major, integrated energy company in connection with an operating agreement and cost-sharing arrangements relating to a Gulf of Mexico floating production storage and offloading unit and related production systems.
• Advised Doyon Ltd. in multiple joint operating agreements covering North Slope Alaska assets.
• Represented the Municipality of Anchorage in the negotiation of a unit operating agreement covering a large Cook Inlet gas unit.
• Advised Otto Energy Ltd. in connection with multiple shallow-water Gulf of Mexico operating agreements.
• Represented an independent exploration and production company in connection with a North Sea unitization.
• Represented an independent exploration and production company in a pipe-within-a-pipe joint venture on Mineral Leasing Act Lands in Colorado.

Service and Supply Sector Projects

• Represented a major, integrated multinational energy company in connection with a rig-sublease for deepwater operations, Gulf of Mexico.
• Represented a major, integrated multinational energy company in connection with 20K technology sharing and development agreements for ultra-high pressure environments.
• Advised a major, integrated, multinational energy company in connection with a rig-sharing agreement for deepwater operations, offshore West Africa.
• Advised a national oil company in connection with ITT model form offshore drilling and service agreements, tender and procurement procedures, and training modules in respect of a drilling campaign, offshore Colombia.
• Represented Halliburton in the structuring and negotiation of a joint venture arrangement for oilfield service and supply operations in Ghana.
• Advised a major, integrated, multinational energy company in connection with a deepwater drilling services agreement for offshore projects in West Africa and Eastern Europe.