Allan Kirk, P.C.

Bildmore Clean Energy in its preferred equity commitment with Peregrine Energy Solutions LLC for a 150MW battery energy storage project in Texas.

Captona and its equity partner in a preferred equity investment in a 1GWh energy storage portfolio in Texas developed by esVolta, LP.

Blackstone in the acquisition of Potomac Energy Center, a 774-megawatt natural gas power plant in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Capzone Impact Investments in its acquisition of the Alabama Shipyard, a shipyard that will be modernized in collaboration with the U.S. Navy to support U.S. nuclear submarine programs.

PE sponsor in its convertible preferred equity investment of up to $550 million (representing a controlling stake) in a company specializing in the development of clean energy, gigawatt-scale campus facilities for datacenter operators.

TPG Rise Climate in its definitive agreement to acquire Olympus Terminals, a leading independent storage provider for renewable fuels and refined products in Southern California.

Captona in a joint venture with UBS Asset Management that acquired a battery storage portfolio in Texas and is designed to leverage the growing tax credit transferability market.

DIF Capital Partners, Northleaf Capital Partners and HICL Infrastructure PLC on their definitive agreement for the sale of the Northwest Parkway, a toll road located in Denver, Colorado, to VINCI Highways, a subsidiary of global concession operator and construction company VINCI Concessions.

Captona, a North American energy transition investor, in a joint venture that acquired multiple solar and storage development assets which leveraged the growing tax credit transferability market.

BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) in its $550 million equity investment in 1PointFive Stratos Holdings, LLC, a newly formed joint venture with Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: OXY) to develop STRATOS, the world's largest Direct Air Capture facility, in Ector County, Texas. (Awarded “Power to X Deal of the Year 2024” by IJ Global at its 2024 Americas Awards).

Blackstone in its joint acquisition with Vista Equity Partners of Energy Exemplar, a global provider of energy market simulation software. (Awarded “Deal of the Year 2024” and “Technology & Business Services (Corporate/Strategic Acquisition) Deal of the Year 2024” by Association of Corporate Growth Houston).

Global Infrastructure Partners in its investment in Rio Grande LNG’s $18.4 billion Phase I development and project financing.

Civitas Resources in its $2.45 billion definitive agreement to acquire oil producing assets in the Delaware Basin from Tap Rock Resources, a portfolio company of NGP Energy Capital Management.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), in its partnership with IKAV to acquire Aera Energy, California’s second largest oil and gas producer.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), in its approximately $200 million investment in Redaptive, a leading Energy-as-a-Service provider.

Blackstone and its portfolio company Fisterra Energy in its sale of the Tierra Mojada combined cycle power plant in Jalisco, Mexico, to Saavi Energía, a portfolio company of Global Infrastructure Partners.

Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: SVIIU), 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.

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. in its $30 billion joint venture with Intel Corporation to fund Intel’s under-construction semiconductor fabrication facility in Chandler, Arizona.

Partners Group in the sale of its co-control stake in Sentinel Energy Center, an 850 MW natural gas-fired peaking plant in California.

TPG Rise Climate and The Rise Fund in its investment in Monolith Materials, a producer of clean hydrogen and carbon black using commercial-scale methane pyrolysis, in connection with a $300 million equity raise by Monolith Materials.

Blackstone Energy Partners in its $400 million investment in Xpansiv Limited, the leading market-infrastructure platform for global carbon and environmental commodities. 

CarVal Investors and Generate Capital for the equity portion of their $2.6 billion project financing of Intersect Power to support its solar power and energy storage projects.

CarVal in its minority investment in a portfolio of Texas wind farms owned by a leading private equity sponsor that were restructured due to the financial impact of Storm Uri.

Generate in a Series C equity investment as part of an overall debt and equity financing of $385 million in Compute North, a sustainable, large-scale computing infrastructure provider.

Macquarie Asset Management in its equity commitment to Inspiration Mobility Holdings, a sustainable infrastructure platform dedicated to enabling the electric vehicle transition.

TPG Rise Climate in its $500 million convertible preferred equity investment into Nextracker, a leader in the solar tracking space.

Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: SV) in its $1.9 billion merger with NuScale Power, an industry-leading provider of small modular nuclear reactor technology.

Large pension fund in its minority investment into a waste to fuel joint venture.

Infrastructure investment firm in various simple agreements for future equity (SAFE) for renewable energy infrastructure projects.

True Green Capital Management LLC on its sale of a portfolio of solar projects to Altus Power, Inc.

Macquarie Asset Management and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board in the joint acquisition of an aggregate 31.6 per cent stake in Puget Holdings and its subsidiary, Puget Sound Energy, the oldest and largest electric and natural gas utility in the state of Washington, from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

Warburg Pincus in its strategic investment in Global Healthcare Exchange, a leading provider of cloud-based supply chain solutions for healthcare organizations.

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 $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