Caleb Lowery
Overview
Caleb Lowery is a corporate associate in Kirkland’s Houston office. Caleb’s practice focuses primarily on capital markets transactions, corporate governance and securities law compliance. He represents issuers and underwriters in connection with high yield notes offerings, initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, debt exchange offers and tender offers, as well as ongoing reporting and compliance matters.
Caleb holds a B.A., with honors, from Patrick Henry College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
Experience
Representative Matters
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
Jaws Spitfire Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: SPFR), a special purpose acquisition company led by Barry S. Sternlicht and Matthew Walters, in its $345 million initial public offering
Bluescape Opportunities Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company that will target businesses in the energy and industrial sectors, in connection with its $575 million initial public offering
Vector Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company that will target businesses in the technology and technology-enabled services sectors, in connection with its $300 million initial public offering
Pike Corporation, a leading, integrated provider of construction, repair and engineering services for distribution and transmission power lines and substations, in connection with its Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 5.500% senior notes due 2028
Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ: CLMT) in its consent solicitation and uptier exchange of approximately $200 million of existing unsecured senior notes for $200 million of senior secured first lien notes and negotiation of support agreement for such transaction with large consenting holder
Centennial Resource Development, Inc. in its uptier exchange of approximately $254 million of existing senior unsecured notes for approximately $127 million of Second Lien Senior Secured Notes
Brookfield Business Partners L.P., and certain of its affiliates and institutional partners in the $170 million acquisition by merger of the outstanding publicly held common units of Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. (NYSE:TOO), a Marshall Islands marine transportation company and midstream services provider
Callon Petroleum Company in its $3.2 billion acquisition of Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. in an all-stock transaction
C&J Energy Services in an approximately $1.8 billion merger-of-equals with Keane Group
Harvest Oil & Gas Corp. in securities and corporate governance matters related to the sales of certain of its assets in South Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Mid-Continent
Nine Energy Service, Inc. in its Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $400 million of senior notes
Ascent Resources, LLC in the offering by certain of its subsidiaries of $600 million of senior unsecured notes and concurrent redemption of repurchase $525 million of its outstanding senior notes
Riviera Resources, Inc. in its tender offer to purchase $100 million of its common stock
Legacy Reserves Inc. and Legacy Reserves LP in the corporate reorganization of Legacy Reserves LP from an MLP to a publicly traded corporation, in which Legacy Reserves LP unitholders and holders of preferred units became stockholders of Legacy Reserves Inc.
EV Energy Partners, L.P., and certain affiliates in their prepackaged Chapter 11 restructuring in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Headquartered in Houston, EVEP is a master limited partnership engaged in acquiring, producing and developing oil and natural gas properties with approximately $640 million in funded debt obligations at the time of filing. Before filing for chapter 11 to implement its restructuring, the company negotiated a restructuring support agreement with 100 percent of the lenders under its reserve-based revolving credit facility and holders of approximately 70 percent of its unsecured notes, locking in support for a comprehensive restructuring of the company’s balance sheet
LINN Energy, Inc. in the spin-off of Riviera Resources, Inc.
The underwriters in connection with the Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $600 million of Weatherford International, LLC’s senior unsecured notes and concurrent tender offer to repurchase $485 million of its outstanding senior notes
Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc. in its offering of $750 million of senior unsecured notes and concurrent tender offer to repurchase $500 million of its outstanding senior notes
LINN Energy, Inc. in its tender offer to purchase $325 million of its Class A common stock
Development Capital Resources, LLC, an Ares Management, L.P. (Ares) portfolio company, in its $750 million investment for common and preferred equity in a joint venture with California Resources Corporation (CRC) to operate midstream infrastructure assets and related purchase by Ares in a private placement of $50 million of CRC common stock
The underwriters in connection with the $185 million initial public offering of the common stock of Nine Energy Service, Inc.
Legacy Reserves LP in its repurchase of $187 million in aggregate principal amount of its senior unsecured notes
Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc. in its proposed $746 million sale to SandRidge Energy, Inc.
Certain lenders in a $200 million second lien term loan provided to a privately owned exploration and production company
The purchasers in a private offering of $80 million in aggregate principal amount of a privately owned solar energy company’s senior secured notes
The underwriters in the $262 million initial public offering of the common stock of C&J Energy Services, Inc.
The underwriters in the $81 million initial public offering of the common stock of Ramaco Resources, Inc.
SandRidge Energy, Inc. in its $600 million refinancing of its exit credit facility with $425 million borrowing base
Midstates Petroleum in its $170 million reserve based revolving credit facility
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2016Texas
Education
- Columbia Law SchoolJ.D.2016
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
Staff, Columbia Business Law Review
- Patrick Henry CollegeB.A., Governmentwith Honors2012