Alia Y. Heintz
Overview
Alia Y. Heintz is a corporate partner in the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on acquisitions, divestitures and joint venture formation in the upstream oil-and-gas sector. Alia's transactional experience also includes advising clients in connection with complex joint development projects, farmout and participation agreements to develop oil and gas properties.
Experience
Representative Matters
Since joining Kirkland, Alia has been involved in the following matters:
- Crescent Energy Company (NYSE: CRGY) in its $600 million acquisition of Western Eagle Ford assets from Mesquite Energy, Inc.
- Quantum Energy Partners in its partnership with Bison Oil & Gas to form Bison Oil & Gas Partners IV, LLC with more than $500 million in equity capital commitments, and in closing multiple DJ Basin acquisitions.
- Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) in its $330 million acquisition of a 36.7% working interest in certain oil and gas leases and wells and associated midstream assets and infrastructure in Midland County, Texas, from Midland-Petro D.C. Partners, LLC.
- 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.
Prior Experience
Global Projects Associate, Baker Botts L.L.P.
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Memberships & Affiliations
Houston Bar Association
Houston Young Lawyers Association
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2016Texas
Education
- The University of Tulsa College of LawJ.D.with Highest Honors2016
Order of the Curule Chair
Martin Fellows Smith Award (Most Outstanding Student)
Robert C. Butler, Jr. Award for Excellence in Legal Scholarship and Writing
Editor-in-Chief, Tulsa Law Review
- Vassar CollegeB.A., Psychology & Economics2012Psi Chi and Omicron Delta Epsilon Honor Societies
News &
Insights
Kirkland Advises Crescent Energy on its $600 Million Acquisition of Western Eagle Ford Assets from Mesquite Energy