Chris Fox is a corporate associate in the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He focuses primarily on capital market transactions. His practice consists of complex securities matters, including initial public offerings, secondary offerings of equity, high-yield offerings, tender offers and exchange offers.
Experience
Representative Matters
Since joining Kirkland, Chris has represented:
Charah Solutions, Inc. in its $88 million initial public offering.
The underwriters in Oasis Petroleum Inc.’s offering of $400 million 6.25% Senior Notes due 2026 and the related tender offer for certain of its existing senior notes.
Underwriters in the $305.6 million offering of common units by Oasis Petroleum Inc.
Vine Oil & Gas LP and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Vine Oil & Gas Finance Corp., in its private offering of $530 million in aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes
Discovery Capital Management, LLC and certain of its affiliates as selling stockholders of Peabody Energy Corporation in a $346.9 million secondary offering of common stock
EXCO Resources, Inc. in its issuance of $300 million in aggregate principal amount of senior secured 1.5 lien notes due March 20, 2022 and warrants for shares of EXCO’s common stock and the exchange of approximately $683 million of senior secured second lien term loans due Oct. 26, 2020 for a like amount of senior secured 1.75 lien term loans due Oct. 26, 2020
Prior to joining Kirkland, Chris represented:
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. in its sale to Island Energy Services, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of One Rock Capital Partners, LP, of all of Chevron's refining, distribution, and retail assets located in Hawaii, including the 58,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Kapolei, interests in a network of 58 retail service stations, four product distribution terminals on Oahu, Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii Island, pipeline distribution systems, and other related downstream assets statewide
The Southern Company in its acquisition from Kinder Morgan of a 50 percent equity interest in the 7,600-mile Southern Natural Gas pipeline system
Texas Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists, P.L.L.C. in its sale of substantially all of its assets to Veterinary Specialists of North America LLC and its affiliates, part of the Compassion-First Pet Hospitals network and a portfolio company of Quad-C
Prior Experience
Jones Day, Associate, 2015–2016
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Summer Associate, 2014
Jones Day, Summer Associate, 2013 and 2014
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
2015Texas
Education
The University of Texas at Austin School of LawJ.D.with Honors2015
Leiden UniversityVisiting Student2014
The University of Texas at AustinB.A., Historywith Honors2011
