Allan Kirk

Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: SV), a special purpose acquisition company, in its pending $1.2 billion business combination with Aerofarms, a public benefit corporation and certified B corporation that is a leading indoor vertical farming company.

Spring Valley Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of Pearl Energy Investment Management, LLC and focusing on target businesses in the sustainability industry, in its $230 million initial public offering. 

Peridot Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: PDAC) on its pending $1.67 billion combination agreement with Li-Cycle Corp. 

Peridot Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its $300 million initial public offering. Peridot is sponsored by an affiliate of Carnelian Energy Capital Management, LP and will target businesses in the electrification, clean fuel transportation, self-directed and autonomous mobility and related infrastructure, energy storage and efficiency, smart grid technology and renewable energy sectors.

Brookfield Super-Core Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure fund managed by Brookfield Asset Management Inc., in its approximately $2 billion acquisition of a 25 percent equity interest in Dominion Energy, Inc.’s Cove Point LNG LP.

Partners Group in its acquisition of 50% stake in EnfraGen, LLC, a developer, owner and operator of thermal power generation, solar and hydropower assets in Latin America.

SemGroup Corp. (NYSE: SEMG) in its approximately $5.1 billion sale to Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET).

GIC in its acquisition of a minority stake in WaterBridge Resources LLC from funds affiliated with Five Point Energy LLC and WaterBridge management.

BlackRock, GSO Capital Partners and Magnetar Capital as lead purchasers in the $1.2 billion convertible preferred equity investment in EQM Midstream Partners, LP, a growth-oriented master limited partnership operating in the Appalachian Basin.

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.

Apollo in its $110 million preferred equity investment in Kimbell Royalty Partners.

A private equity sponsor in its $100 million preferred investment in an oilfield services company.

Zenith Energy in the sale of a 51 percent membership interest in the Pawnee Crude Oil Terminal in Colorado to Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP.

Armstrong Energy, Inc. and certain of its affiliates in corporate matters related to their Chapter 11 proceeding before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, including the divestiture of their primary coal operating assets.

Warburg Pincus and Zenith Energy U.S., L.P. in the approximately $750 million acquisition of Arc Logistics Partners LP and its general partner, Arc Logistics GP LLC, along with certain related assets held by owners of Arc Logistics Partners.

CIG Logistics, a portfolio company of ECP, in the acquisition of the Sandstorm product suite from Propell Oilfield Equipment, a Tycrop company.

Warburg Pincus in its lead role in a line of equity financing of up to $780 million to ATX Energy Partners, a newly formed oil and gas exploration and production company, and the successor company to Brigham Resources.

Seadrill Limited and certain of its direct and indirect subsidiaries in their multi-jurisdictional restructuring of approximately $20 billion of contract and debt obligations. Seadrill is a leading global provider of offshore contract drilling services and employs nearly 4,000 individuals across 22 countries and five continents. Seadrill's pre-arranged Chapter 11 cases, one of the largest filings in 2017 based on asset size, resulted in the re-profiling of approximately $6 billion of secured debt, eliminated approximately $3.5 billion of unsecured bond and contractual obligations, and facilitated a capital investment of more than $1 billion. In the months preceding Chapter 11, Seadrill also consummated a series of ring-fencing transactions that successfully prevented its non-consolidated businesses from also having to commence Chapter 11 cases. Seadrill and its debtor subsidiaries confirmed their Chapter 11 plan with near universal consensus in approximately 7 months and emerged from Chapter 11 in less than 10 months.

ECP in its acquisition of CIG Logistics, the largest independent operator of sand and well consumable transloading facilities in the U.S.

KKR in its $625 million divestiture of certain Eagle Ford Shale assets owned by KKR and Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) to WildHorse Development Corporation (NYSE: WRD) paid in cash and WRD common stock.

Blackstone Energy Partners and Sanchez Energy Corporation in their 50/50 partnership, definitive purchase agreement and related financing to acquire Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s working interest in approximately 318,000 gross operated acres in the Western Eagle Ford for approximately $2.3 billion.

The Blackstone Group and ArcLight in connection with the $2.17 billion acquisition of four Midwest power plants from subsidiaries of American Electric Power.

Fisterra Energy, a company owned by affiliates of The Blackstone Group, in connection with the sale of the Ventika wind generation facilities, the largest wind farm in Mexico and one of the largest in Latin America, to Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.B. de C.V.’s (a unit of Sempra Energy), for an approximate purchase price of $852 million.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Allan's representative matters included:

Denver-based oil and gas producer in a bolt-on acquisition of oil and gas producing properties in East Texas.

Texas-based shale oil driller in a joint venture for oil and gas producing properties in Louisiana. The related purchase agreement was signed immediately before the company filed for Chapter 11 reorganization and the net proceeds received were used primarily to reduce the amount of borrowing under the company’s credit facility prior to the Chapter 11 reorganization effective date and for other general corporate purposes.

Multi-national integrated oil and gas company in the divestiture of its 58,000 barrel-per-day refinery, 58 retail services stations, four product distribution terminal, pipeline distribution systems and other related downstream assets.

Private equity fund in its acquisition of a 41.3% stake in a 432 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle cogeneration facility located in New York.

Midstream company in a merger with a total transaction value of approximately $20 billion, including the assumption of debt and other liabilities of approximately $4.2 billion.

Midstream company in connection with the formation of a joint venture to construct a 107 mile crude oil pipeline from the Delaware Basin to Midland, Texas.

Portfolio company in connection with the sale three power generation facilities located in New York and Pennsylvania.

Denver-based oil and gas producer in the acquisition of interests in upstream oil and gas properties in East Texas, producing a combined 100 million cubic feet of natural gas and 1,200 barrels of oil per day.

Leading refining, chemicals, and biofuels company in its acquisition of a master limited partnership that is a major U.S. producer of propylene, in a cash deal valued at approximately $2.1 billion.

Midstream company in a $135 million divesture of its interests in a Texas pipeline company.

Midstream company in its acquisition of a gas processing facility in New Mexico and approximately 225 miles of gathering pipelines.

Jones Day (Houston) — Oct 2013–July 2016

Research Tax Consultants, Ltd. — Director of Business, Growth and Development, August 2008–August 2010

PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP — Senior Associate (Audit), September 2005–August 2008