Kevin T. Crews, P.C.

Since joining Kirkland, Kevin has been involved in the following transactions:

• ORIX Capital Partners in its acquisition of Specialty Welding and Turnarounds, LLC (SWAT), a leading provider of specialty welding and other turnaround services to the oil and gas refinery, petrochemical and industrial markets
• Sentinel Midstream, a portfolio company of Cresta Fund Management, on its agreements with Freepoint Commodities in furtherance of Sentinel Midstream’s construction, operation and utilization of Texas GulfLink, a Deepwater Crude Oil Export Terminal located near Freeport, Texas
• TPG in its preferred equity investment of up to $140 million to fund capital contributions to Double E Pipeline LLC, a joint venture between Summit Midstream Partners LP and Exxon Mobil Corporation, to construct a FERC-regulated interstate natural gas pipeline in the Delaware Basin
• Magnetar Capital in its up to $250 million preferred equity investment in WaterBridge Holdings, as part of an equity capital raise involving Five Point Energy, an affiliate of GIC and WaterBridge management to fund strategic acquisitions of water infrastructure from Primexx Energy Partners, Tall City Exploration III and Jetta Permian
• EIG Global Energy Partners in its $750 million acquisition of equity interests in South Texas Midstream, LLC, a newly-formed joint venture with NextEra Energy Partners, LP
• Mettle Midstream in the formation of a joint venture with an undisclosed producer to construct and develop an oil and gas gathering system and associated midstream infrastructure in the Powder River Basin
• The management team of Hillstone Environmental Partners, LLC in a review of strategic alternatives culminating in the $600 million sale of Hillstone to NGL Energy Partners LP
• Publicly-traded E&P company in its $300 million joint venture with an undisclosed private equity sponsor to fund drilling and completion-related capital expenditures with respect to non-operated properties in the Permian Basin
• The management team of Bison Oil & Gas Partners II, LLC, a Carnelian Energy Capital portfolio company, in its follow-on equity investment in, and debt and equity recapitalization of, the company
• Publicly-traded E&P company in its $500 million joint venture with an undisclosed private equity sponsor to acquire minerals in the Permian Basin
• GPI Capital in a $225 million convertible preferred equity investment round in Postmates Inc, a leader in the food delivery space
• Wing Resources LLC and Wing Resources II LLC, portfolio companies of Natural Gas Partners, in the sale of Midland Basin oil and gas mineral interests to Alliance Resource Partners L.P.
• Wildcat Midstream Partners in the sale of its remaining interest in Black Bear Midstream Holdings (f/k/a Wildcat Midstream Holdings) to an undisclosed financial buyer
• LM Energy (f/k/a Longhorn Midstream) in the formation of a joint venture with an undisclosed producer to construct and develop a crude oil and gas gathering system and associated midstream infrastructure
• Red Wolf Natural Resources, a portfolio company of Pearl Energy Investments, in its acquisition of 56,000 net acres and associated production in Oklahoma’s SCOOP, STACK and Merge plays and in the broader Anadarko Basin
• Magnetar Capital, GSO Capital Partners and BlackRock as lead purchasers of $1.2 billion of newly issued Series A Convertible Preferred Units of EQM Midstream Partners, LP, a growth-oriented MLP operating in the Appalachian Basin, proceeds of which will be used to fund EQM’s acquisition of 60% of Eureka Midstream and 100% of Hornet Midstream from Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners
• Red Wolf Natural Resources in its partnership with Pearl Energy Investments to pursue upstream development and acquisition opportunities focused in the Mid-Continent region and select Rockies basins
• Sentinel Midstream on Texas GulfLink, its proposed Deepwater Crude Oil Export Terminal located near Freeport, Texas and related midstream infrastructure project, which is being financed in partnership with Cresta Fund Management
• LM Energy (f/k/a Longhorn Midstream) in its partnership with Old Ironsides Energy to pursue midstream development and acquisition opportunities
• Discovery Midstream II in its midstream joint venture with Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, which joint venture, Discovery Midstream Holdings II LLC, has secured equity commitments of more than $1 billion 
• Canadian Non-Operated Resources L.P., a Calgary-based oil and gas investment fund which is managed by Grafton Asset Management Inc., on the approximate C$700 million strategic merger of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Pipestone Oil Corp., with Blackbird Energy Inc. and the related C$310 million equity and debt capital raises, creating a newly combined, recapitalized Montney-focused E&P company, Pipestone Energy Corp.
• Six Flags in its acquisition of all of the limited partnership interests tendered by third party unitholders of Six Flags Over Texas and Six Flags Over Georgia in 2019

Prior to joining Kirkland, Kevin was involved in the following transactions:

• ENGIE North America Inc. (f/k/a GDF SUEZ Energy North America, Inc.) in its sell-side auction of U.S. power generation assets, culminating in the $3.3 billion sale (and related reorganization) of its portfolio of electric generating plants in Texas, New England and the Mid-Atlantic, to Dynegy and the $1.2 billion sale of hydroelectric power generation assets to Public Sector Pension Investment Board
• Discovery Midstream I
  • and other selling owners of Discovery DJ Services LLC, a joint venture of Old Ironsides Energy and Ward Energy Partners, in the sale of Discovery DJ Services to TPG Capital and rollover of a portion of management’s equity
  • in its midstream joint venture with Old Ironsides Energy
• Old Ironsides Energy
  • in its upstream joint venture with Carbon Natural Gas Company and Yorktown Energy Partners to explore and produce in the Southern Appalachia
  • in the $1.75 billion sale of three Delaware Basin subsidiary companies of Brazos Midstream Holdings, LLC to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure
• Wildcat Midstream Partners and related companies in numerous investments, joint ventures and dispositions, including:
  • its joint venture with a public upstream company for construction and operation of a crude oil pipeline in the Permian basin and subsequent sale of the joint venture to JP Energy Development, a master limited partnership
  • its midstream joint venture with Liberty Energy
  • its sale of a controlling stake in a midstream portfolio company to Highstar Capital
• Magnetar Capital in numerous strategic investments, financings, recapitalizations and dispositions, including:
  • its preferred financing of Covey Park Energy’s $465 million acquisition of upstream assets in the Haynesville shale from Chesapeake Exploration
  • its $250 million line of equity commitment to Lucid Energy Group II Holdings, a leading midstream oil and gas company, and its exit from the investment
  • in (together with EIG Global Energy Partners) its $475 million perpetual preferred equity investment in CrownRock Holdings, L.P.
  • its co-investment in a $1.25 billion preferred financing of Chesapeake Utica upstream joint venture and its exit from the investment
  • in its capacity as a holder of preferred equity in connection with the $18 billion merger of Energy Transfer Partners and Regency Energy Partners
  • in its capacity as a holder of preferred equity in connection with the approximately $7.5 billion merger of Crestwood Equity Partners and Crestwood Midstream Partners
  • its co-investment in a $1.25 billion preferred financing of Chesapeake Cleveland Tonkawa upstream joint venture
  • in its capacity as a holder of preferred equity (together with GSO Capital Partners, EIG Global Energy Partners and TPG Capital) in the sale of upstream assets by Chesapeake Cleveland Tonkawa joint venture to FourPoint Energy and related redemption of preferred equity
  • its investment (together with Harvest Partners) in convertible preferred units of Regency Energy Partners, a master limited partnership, and its exit from the investment
  • its co-investment in a $450 million preferred financing of Plains Exploration and Production Gulf of Mexico offshore development project
  • its $400 million mezzanine debt financing of Eclipse Resources’ acquisition of The Oxford Oil Company
  • its acquisition (together with GSO Capital Partners) from General Electric Energy of preferred units of the general partner of Summit Midstream Partners, a master limited partnership
• Breitburn Energy Partners LP in its $775 million sale of certain of its upstream assets to Birch Permian Holdings, Inc. and its $793 million sale of the remainder of its assets to Maverick Natural Resources LLC, via a chapter 11 reorganization
• Fieldwood Energy LLC (a portfolio company of Riverstone) in its prepackaged chapter 11 cases pursuant to which Fieldwood deleveraged its balance sheet by $1.6 billion, raised approximately $525 million in an equity rights offering and purchased for $710 million all Gulf of Mexico deepwater oil and gas assets of Noble Energy, Inc.
• Cresta Energy in various equity investments in midstream oil and gas companies
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in various equity investments in upstream and midstream oil and gas companies
• Stonegate Production Company LLC
  • in its sale of certain non-operated oil and gas assets to Stonehold Energy Corporation
  • in its sale of certain operated oil and gas assets to Vortus Investments
• Tailwater Capital in its formation of an upstream and midstream energy investment fund and that fund's acquisition of oil and gas investments from HM Capital Partners
• Fir Tree Partners and Crestline Investors in their acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Emerald Oil pursuant to a Section 363 asset sale in bankruptcy and the formation of an asset-level joint venture with Petro-Hunt
• EIG Global Energy Partners in its recapitalization of an upstream offshore oil and gas portfolio company and its joint venture with Sankaty Advisors
• Oxford Finance Corporation (a portfolio company of Sumitomo Corporation of America) in its sale of a minority stake to Welsh Carson and establishment of a joint venture for life science and healthcare services companies
• NYDJ Apparel (a portfolio company of Falconhead Capital) in its sale of a controlling interest in leading women’s clothing maker to Crestview Partners
• General Growth Properties, Inc. in its $8 billion recapitalization by Brookfield and Pershing Square, and in its spinoff of The Howard Hughes Corporation and Rouse Properties, Inc.
• Dell Inc. in its acquisition of Credant Technologies, Inc., a data protection company
• Trinity Industries, Inc. in its tender offer to acquire Quixote Corporation, a publicly-traded manufacturer of highway safety products
• Rehabcare Group, Inc. in its acquisition of Triumph HealthCare, a developer and operator of long-term acute care hospitals
• EQT Infrastructure Fund in its acquisition of Synagro Technologies, Inc., a waste recycling company, under a chapter 11 reorganization
• Ziplocal, Inc. (a portfolio company of HM Capital Partners LLC) in its contribution of phone directories assets into a joint venture with Yellow Pages Group

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