Michael Brunetti is a corporate associate in the Dallas office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. During law school at Columbia, he served as the Bluebook Editor of the Columbia Law Review, president of the Columbia Business & Law Association, and president of the Columbia Law Texas Society.
Experience
Representative Matters
Fund Finance
Representation of leading private investment funds, as borrowers and lenders in single and multi-jurisdictional matters.
NAV Financing
Representation of leading private equity sponsors in multi-jurisdictional net asset value secured facilities, collateralizing, among other assets, privately held and publicly traded securities.
Debt Financing
Quantum Capital Group, 547 Energy, and ConnectGen in its $768 million sale of ConnectGen to Repsol.
Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. (NYSE: KGS) in its $256 million initial public offering.
Exit Financing/Restructuring
Altera Infrastructure L.P., a global provider of critical infrastructure assets to the offshore energy industry, in its entry into its debtor-in-possession credit facility, and subsequent financing of seven exit credit facilities totaling nearly $1.6 billion, in connection with its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Acquisition Financing
Riley Exploration Permian, Inc. (NYSE: REPX) in its acquisition of oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin from Pecos Oil & Gas, LLC and its issuance of senior unsecured notes in connection therewith.
Bernhard Capital Partners in its $484 million acquisition of Entergy’s gas distribution business.
Mergers & Acquisitions
RedBird Capital Partners in its investment in Go Rentals, the premier luxury car rental provider in the United States specializing in premium end-markets.
Ovintiv Inc. (NYSE: OVV) in its $4.275 billion acquisition of all leasehold interest and related assets of Black Swan Oil & Gas, PetroLegacy Energy and Piedra Resources, and the concurrent $825 million sale of its Bakken assets.
Forest Road Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE: FRXB) in its proposed business combination with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc., a leading transportation and technology licensing company focused on realizing the hyperloop.
Capital Markets
EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) $1 billion offering of senior notes to finance the acquisition of Alta Resources and $1 billion public offering of senior notes to finance the proposed acquisition of Tug Hill and XcL Midstream.
Clerk & Government Experience
Judicial InternHonorable Richard J. SullivanUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit