James Dolphin, III

TPG Rise Climate, a global impact investing platform managed by TPG Global, on its 1/3 equity investment in Monarch Bioenergy, a joint venture between Roeslein Alternative Energy and Smithfield Foods that is a leader in capturing agricultural methane emissions and converting them into carbon-negative renewable natural gas.  

TPG Rise, a global impact investing platform managed by TPG Global, and Element Markets, a leading renewable natural gas marketing and environmental commodities company, on the acquisition of Bluesource, the largest carbon credit developer in North America.  

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in two related transactions involving a 2,520 megawatt renewable energy portfolio operated by NextEra consisting of 13 US based utility-scale wind and solar assets, three of which include battery storage.  

Peridot Acquisition Corp. in its $1.67 billion combination agreement with Li-Cycle Corp.

Magnetar Capital’s Energy & Infrastructure group in a $100 million preferred equity investment round in PosiGen, a renewable energy solutions provider.

The Rise Fund, a TPG-managed global impact fund, in its acquisition of Element Markets, the leading independent marketer of renewable natural gas and environmental commodities in North America. 

Rice Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its $1.15 billion business combination with Aria Energy LLC and Archaea Energy LLC to form Archaea Energy, a publicly-traded renewable natural gas platform. 

Cypress Creek Renewables on a mezzanine debt financing backed by a 1.6 GW portfolio of operating solar projects, and on a senior financing of a portfolio of 14 operating solar projects. 

Lenders in connection with the $3.4 billion Train 3 refinancing for Freeport LNG.

Investec Bank plc and the lenders in the senior secured and mezzanine financing for Cardinal States Gathering Co. LLC. 

Huntsman Corporation in its pending $300 million acquisition of CVC Thermoset Specialties. 

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.

Revolution II WI Holding Company, LLC, an affiliate of Mountain Capital Partners, LP, in its approximately $201.5 million acquisition of Jones Energy II, Inc. in an all-cash transaction.

Murray Energy Holdings Co. and certain of its subsidiaries in their Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Murray is the largest privately-owned coal company in the United States, headquartered in St. Clairsville, Ohio, and has operations primarily in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Illinois, Utah, and Colombia, South America. Murray employs nearly 5,500 people, including approximately 2,400 active union members. Murray entered Chapter 11 with approximately $2.7 billion in prepetition funded debt and more than $8 billion in actual or potential pension and employee benefit obligations.

The lenders in the approximately $1.27 billion refinancing for Train 2 of the Freeport LNG facility.

The lenders in the financing of Guernsey Power Project.

Callon Petroleum Company in its $3.2 billion acquisition of Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc.

EIG Global Energy Partners in a $400 million preferred equity investment in NGL Energy Partners LP to finance the acquisition of produced water pipeline transportation and disposal assets from Mesquite Disposals Unlimited, LLC.

Elite Compression Services and its sponsor JDH Capital in the $410 million sale of approximately 430,000 of predominately large-horsepower compression assets to Archrock, Inc., and the $30 million purchase by Harvest Midstream Company of 80,000 active and idle compression horsepower from Archrock, Inc.

Industrial Growth Partners and Integrated Global Services, Inc. (IGS) in IGS’s acquisition of Cetek Ceramic Technologies.

Savage Companies in its merger with Bartlett and Company and the subsequent Savage Enterprises joint venture, a leading global provider of supply chain and industrial services spanning the agriculture, energy and chemical, and environmental sectors.

EIG Global Energy Partners on a $500 million investment into USA Compression Partners, LP (NYSE: USAC), in which certain investment funds managed or sub-advised by EIG and other investment vehicles unaffiliated with EIG agreed to purchase an aggregate amount of $500 million of newly established Series A Perpetual Preferred Units and received warrants to purchase up to 15,000,000 Common Units of USA Compression.

KKR/Venado Oil & Gas, LLC in its $765 million acquisition of Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation’s (NYSE: COG) developed and undeveloped oil and gas assets in the Eagle Ford Shale.

RimRock Oil & Gas and its sponsor, Warburg Pincus, in its $500 million acquisition of upstream assets in the Bakken Shale in North Dakota from Whiting Petroleum Corporation.

ABRY Partners and Inmar Inc. in the sale of Inmar Inc. to OMERS Private Equity.

Associate, Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP, 2015–2017

Law Clerk, Turner Environmental Law Clinic, 2012