Christopher J. Fox

Since joining Kirkland, Chris has represented: 

• 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.
• EXCO Resources, Inc. in connection with its Chapter 11 restructuring in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
• EIG Global Energy Partners and KKR in the cross-border restructuring of Bellatrix Corporation, an exploration and production company based in Calgary.
• Parker Drilling Company and certain of its affiliates in connection with its prearranged Chapter 11 restructuring in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
• KKR in its $900 million acquisition of an equity interest in a newly-formed partnership with NextEra Energy Partners, LP that owns a portfolio of 10 utility scale wind and solar projects across the U.S.
• Charah Solutions, Inc. in its $88 million initial public offering.
• Westmoreland Coal Company and its subsidiaries in connection with recapitalization and restructuring transactions, including a $100 million out-of-court priming bridge loan.
• 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.
• Chicago Bridge & Iron Company and its subsidiaries in connection with the restructuring of their senior secured credit facilities and senior secured notes totaling over $2 billion.
• 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.
• Underwriters in connection with the $127 million initial public offering by Oasis Midstream Partners LP.
• 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.
• Private funds affiliated with Värde Partners, Inc. in their $125 million convertible second lien term loan facility for Lilis Energy, Inc., an exploration and development company operating in the Permian Basin of West Texas.
• 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.

Jones Day, Associate, 2015–2016

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Summer Associate, 2014

Jones Day, Summer Associate, 2013 and 2014