Alia Y. Heintz

Since joining Kirkland, Alia has been involved in the following matters:

• Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) in its $110 million acquisition of Midland Basin oil and gas properties.
• Diversified Energy Company plc (LSE: DEC) in its $240 million acquisition of certain upstream oil and gas assets and related facilities in Oklahoma and Texas from ConocoPhillips Company (NYSE: COP).
• Stronghold Energy, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus LLC, in the $465 million sale of its Permian Basin assets to Ring Energy, Inc. (NYSE: REI). 
• Red Bluff Resources and Bricktown Energy, portfolio companies of HPS Investment Partners, in the sale of substantially all of their oil and gas properties to Citizen Energy.  
• Riverbend Energy Group in its $1.8 billion divestiture of all of the equity interests in Riverbend Oil & Gas VI, LLC, Riverbend Oil & Gas VI-B, LLC and Riverbend Oil & Gas VIII, LLC to a private buyer. 
• APR Operating LLC in its sale of oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin to Petro-Hunt LLC. 
• Maverick Natural Resources in its $440 million acquisition of certain producing properties in the Permian Basin from ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP). 
• Warburg Pincus and Chisholm Energy Holdings LLC in Chisholm’s $604 million divestiture of its Northern Delaware Basin assets to Earthstone Energy, Inc. (NYSE: ESTE). 
• Elk Range Royalties, LP in its acquisition of royalty interests in the Permian Basin from an undisclosed seller. 
• HG Energy II Appalachia, LLC/Quantum in the $400 million sale of certain oil & gas assets to an affiliate of Wincoram Asset Management. 
• Warwick Investment Group on its $450 million acquisition of operated oil and gas assets in Texas's Eagle Ford Shale from Rosewood Resources and related drilling commitments.
• Warburg Pincus and Hawkwood Energy in Hawkwood’s $650 million acquisition by WildFire Energy I.
• Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc. (NASDAQ: XOG) in Civitas Resources, Inc.’s $4.5 billion acquisition of Crestone Peak Resources. 
• Fortress Investment Group LLC in the acquisition of Colony Capital’s positions in approximately $2.7 billion of non-digital energy and real estate assets.
• ACON S2 Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: STWO), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, on its business combination with ESS Tech, Inc., a manufacturer of long-duration iron flow batteries for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications. 
• Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc. (Nasdaq: XOG) in its approximately $2.6 billion all-stock merger of equals with Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc. (NYSE: BCEI).
• HPS Investment Partners LLC in its $32.96 million acquisition of Echo Energy Partners I LLC’s assets out of bankruptcy.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Alia was involved in the following matters:

Acquisitions & Divestitures

• International energy company in its $10.8 billion divestiture of U.S. shale assets located collectively in the Permian, Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Fayetteville plays.
• Private energy company in its $1.375 billion acquisition (with up to a $250 million contingent payment option) of offshore Gulf of Mexico assets.
• Large energy company in its $5.6 billion divestiture of its Alaska operations and interests.
• Public energy company in its $201.5 million merger.
• Australian oil and gas company in connection with its $400 million acquisition of oil assets in the Alaska North Slope area.
• Public energy company in its $170 million divestiture of Merge oil and gas assets. 
• Portfolio company in its $150 million acquisition of equity interests.
• Private energy company in a series of three divestitures of Eagle Ford oil and gas assets that totaled $104.5 million.
• Public energy company in a series of divestitures of SCOOP oil and gas assets that totaled $91 million.
• Private energy company in its $14 million divestiture of Marcellus oil and gas assets and related farmout agreement.

"Drillco" Transactions, and Other Project Development Arrangements

• Continuous representation of a large international oilfield services company regarding multiple drillco/participation arrangements.
• Upstream portfolio company in entering into a joint development arrangement of certain assets in the Austin Chalk formation.