Mary W. Lovely
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Corporate & Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Capital Markets
- Investment Management & Private Equity
- Oil & Gas
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Liquefied Natural Gas
- Midstream Oil & Gas
- Oilfield Services
- Refining, Petrochemicals & Processing
- Upstream Oil & Gas
- Advises on acquisitions, divestitures and strategic joint ventures in the energy industry and other sectors, including providing counsel on upstream, midstream, downstream and traditional & renewable power transactions.
- Works with public companies and their boards of directors regarding strategic transactions and corporate governance, particularly in the energy industry.
Mary represents strategic and financial buyers, sellers and investors across industries, including the oil & gas, traditional power, renewable energy and private equity sectors. Mary advises on a wide range of public and private mergers & acquisitions (M&A) transactions, including mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions, minority investments, joint ventures (JV), equity & debt financings and other complex business transactions.
Mary assists clients in buying and selling energy projects across the U.S. With a great depth of practice, Mary has significant experience advising on traditional energy projects—including oil, natural gas and other fossil fuels—guiding clients looking to capitalize on the energy transition, including in connection with renewable energy projects such as wind, solar and battery energy storage systems.
Mary’s work includes representing private equity funds in platform acquisitions and investments, as well as assisting portfolio companies as they make acquisitions to increase their geographic footprint and range of services and products.
Mary also advises public companies, their boards of directors and board committees in strategic matters, including mergers, sales of control and conflict situations, as well as with respect to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) compliance and corporate governance matters.
- Represented Double Eagle Energy in its strategic partnership with EnCap Investments LP to form Double Eagle Energy Holdings IV and another new investment vehicle, new oil & gas investment entities with over $1.7 billion of equity committed.
- Advised CenterPoint Energy Inc. in its agreement to sell Energy Systems Group, its wholly owned subsidiary that specializes in providing energy efficiency and sustainable energy solutions, to ESG Holdings Group LLC, an affiliate of Oaktree Capital Management, for $157 million.
- Represented Excelsior Energy Capital in the formation of a JV with an approximately $400-million equity commitment to acquire construction-ready battery energy storage projects from a battery energy storage developer’s pipeline within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) territory.
- Counseled CenterPoint Energy in the $400-million sale of its natural gas retail business, CenterPoint Energy Services Inc., to Energy Capital Partners LLC.
- Represented a renewable energy infrastructure fund on the acquisition of an operating wind farm for $124 million.
EducationJ.D., Fordham University School of Law, 2010
B.A., University of Virginia, 2007
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 2010
B.A., University of Virginia, 2007
Bar AdmissionsTexas
Texas
- The Legal 500 US, M&A: large deals ($1bn+), 2023.
- Finalist, Executive Women’s 2016 Rising Star Award.
- Member, State Bar of Texas.
- Member, Houston Young Lawyers Association.
- Member, Houston Chapter, Association for Corporate Growth.
- Member, UVA Club of Houston.