Brice Lipman

Rice Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its pending $1.15 billion business combination with Aria Energy LLC and Archaea Energy LLC to form Archaea Energy, a publicly-traded renewable natural gas platform; 

ECP in connection with the acquisition of Liberty Tire Recycling from The Carlyle Group;

Gas Innovations on a partnership with an affiliate of AEA Investors in connection with the formation of Meritus Gas Partners, a packaged gas distribution platform;

Pike Corporation, one of the largest providers of infrastructure solutions to utilities in the United States, in connection with a majority investment by Lindsay Goldberg;

BJ Services, LLC and its affiliates in the sale of its legacy fracturing business to CSL Capital Management LP;

BJ Services, LLC in the sale of its cementing business division to Argonaut Private Equity;

Salt Creek Midstream in a comprehensive recapitalization, which included additional investments from its existing lender groups and funds managed by Ares Management;

Golden Gate Capital and Hillstone Environmental Partners, LLC in the $600 million sale of Hillstone to NGL Energy Partners LP;

Hilcorp Alaska in its $5.6 billion acquisition of BP’s upstream and midstream business in Alaska;

Gastar Exploration LLC, an affiliate of Ares Management Corporation, in its merger with Chisholm Oil and Gas LLC;

Kodiak Gas Services, LLC and The Stephens Group, LLC in the sale of Kodiak to EQT Infrastructure;

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;

HPS Investment Partners, LLC in the sale of Globecomm Systems Inc. (a leading provider of remote communications and multi-network infrastructure to Government, Maritime, and Enterprise sectors in over 100 countries) to Speedcast International Limited, a global Australian-headquartered provider of remote communications and IT services;

Macquarie Infrastructure Partners in connection with its investment of up to $500 million in Lagoon Water Solutions Holdings, LLC, a produced water management company focused primarily in the Anadarko Basin, including the SCOOP and STACK plays;

Huntsman Corporation in its acquisition of Nanocomp Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of carbon nanotube-based advanced materials;

A major alternative investment firm in a $150 million preferred equity investment in an E&P company;

Private midstream company in the buildout of a gathering system and related dedication of acreage in the DJ Basin by an undisclosed producer;

A PE-backed water infrastructure company in its acquisition of a wastewater disposal company and related saltwater disposal wells;

Salt Creek Midstream, a midstream partnership between Ares Management, L.P. and ARM Energy Holdings, LLC, in debt and equity financing matters;

GenOn Energy, Inc. and certain of its affiliates in connection with their prearranged Chapter 11 cases filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. GenOn is a wholesale power generation company headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, with a focus on operations in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States — primarily operating in Pennsylvania and Maryland — and in California. Through the Chapter 11 cases, GenOn will restructure approximately $2.5 billion in funded indebtedness;

HPS Investment Partners, LLC in connection with its acquisition of a majority interest in Globecomm Systems Inc., an international and domestic global connectivity provider which serves media, maritime, enterprise and government markets in over 100 countries;

Bernhard Capital Partners in connection with the formation of the Atlas Technical Consultants platform and the subsequent acquisitions of construction and program management firms, Moreland Altobelli Associates, PaveTex Engineering and Engineering Testing Services;

EXCO Resources, Inc. in its issuance of $300 million in aggregate principal amount of senior secured 1.5 lien notes due March 20, 2022 and warrants for shares of EXCO’s common stock and the exchange of approximately $683 million of senior secured second lien term loans due Oct. 26, 2020 for a like amount of senior secured 1.75 lien term loans due Oct. 26, 2020;

Private equity fund in connection with the confidential acquisition of various coal mining properties and related assets; and

Magnetar Capital Partners in connection with its $450 million investment of equity and delayed draw unsecured debt capital into Double Eagle Energy Permian, an Apollo and Post Oak Energy-backed Midland Basin exploration and production company.

Evercore ISI (formerly ISI Group), Research Associate.