Since joining Kirkland, Patrick’s representative transactions have included:
- TG Natural Resources LLC in its $2.7 billion acquisition of Rockcliff Energy II LLC, an upstream natural gas company focused on the East Texas Haynesville shale
- The Carlyle Group in its acquisition of a controlling interest in a marine terminal joint venture
- Private equity-backed oil and gas company in its $508.3 million divestiture of its assets to Lime Rock Resources
- Pickering Energy Partners in its partnership with a private operator in the Midland Basin
- Guidon Operating LLC in its divestiture of all leasehold interests and related assets to Diamondback Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FANG) for 10.63 million shares of Diamondback common stock and $375 million
- FourPoint Energy LLC in its merger with Maverick Natural Resources to create Unbridled Resources LLC
- Arena Energy, L.P., which filed a prepackaged Chapter 11 case in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas to pursue a sale of its assets as a going-concern. The sale — which is supported by Arena’s first-lien revolving lenders and second-lien term lenders — will restructure more than $1 billion in funded indebtedness and address over $500 million of plugging and abandonment liabilities
- Private equity fund in the dissolution of a joint venture developing oil & gas prospects in deep water Gulf of Mexico and the contemporaneous transfer of its assets to certain affiliates
- Raisa Energy LLC in a first of its kind transaction involving Raisa’s issuance of asset-backed securities secured by producing oil and gas wells
- Parsley Energy, Inc. (NYSE: PE) in its $2.27 billion all-stock acquisition of Jagged Peak Energy Inc. (NYSE: JAG)
- Riviera Resources, Inc. in its $295 million sale of oil and gas assets and gas processing facilities in the Hugoton Gas Field in Kansas
- Vanguard Natural Resources Inc. and its affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of Texas
- Callon Petroleum Company in its $3.2 billion acquisition of Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. in an all-stock transaction
- LLOG Bluewater Holdings, LLC in its $1.4 billion sale of Gulf of Mexico assets to Murphy Oil Corp.
- Salt Creek Midstream, LLC in its 50/50 joint venture with Noble Midstream Partners LP to provide crude oil gathering and transportation services in the Delaware Basin
- Newfield Exploration Co. in its approximately $5.5 billion acquisition by Encana Corp. in an all-stock transaction
Prior to joining Kirkland, Patrick’s representative transactions included:
- CSW Industrials in its acquisitions of (i) 100% of the equity interests in a closely-held manufacturing corporation and (ii) a product line and substantially all remaining assets of a privately-held consumer products distributor
- Integrity Marketing Group in a series of acquisitions of the equity interests in various regional health insurance brokerage and wealth management firms
- Montrose Resources LLC and certain of its affiliates in their corporate reorganization and the simultaneous restructuring of a first-lien note and second-lien credit facility secured against their assets
