Colton Lyons is a corporate associate in the Dallas office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice concentrates on capital markets transactions, corporate governance and securities law compliance.
Experience
Representative Matters
De-SPAC Transactions
ArcLight Clean Transition Corp. II (Nasdaq: ACTD), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, in connection with its entry into a business combination agreement with OPAL Fuels LLC, a leading vertically integrated producer and distributor of renewable natural gas with an enterprise value of $1.75 billion.
ACON S2 Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: STWO), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, on its business combination with ESS Tech, Inc., a manufacturer of long-duration iron flow batteries for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications.
Rice Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in its $1.15 billion business combination with Aria Energy LLC and Archaea Energy LLC to form Archaea Energy, a publicly-traded renewable natural gas platform.
ArcLight Clean Transition Corp. (Nasdaq: ACTCU, ACTC and ACTW), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, in a $1.6 billion transaction that will lead to Proterra Inc, an innovator in commercial vehicle electrification technology, becoming publicly listed.
Star Peak Energy Transition Corp. (NYSE: STPK), a special purpose acquisition company, on its $1.35 billion business combination with Stem, Inc., a global leader in clean energy storage systems.
Equity Offerings
Swiftmerge Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: IVCPU), a blank check company sponsored by Swiftmerge Holdings LP, on its $200 million initial public offering.
Glass Houses Acquisition Corp., a SPAC focused on businesses that provide critical resources and services to the technologies powering the 21st century industrial economy, in its initial public offering.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Vine Energy Inc. (NYSE: VEI) in its $2.2 billion acquisition by Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: CHK).
Trilantic North America as lead investor in its acquisition of a controlling interest and significant equity funding for Powin Energy, a global leader in the design and manufacture of safe and scalable battery energy storage solutions.
Blackstone Energy Partners on its acquisitions of Therma Holdings LLC, a leading specialty mechanical, electrical and controls services company, and of RE Tech Advisors, Inc., a leading energy and sustainability consulting firm, to form a single combined company that will offer customers a comprehensive suite of sustainability, carbon reduction, and energy management services.
High Yield and Investment Grade Debt Offerings
Delek Logistics Partners, LP (NYSE: DKL) and Delek Logistics Finance Corp., a subsidiary of Delek Logistics, in a $400 million offering of senior notes.
Restructuring and Liability Management Transactions
Gulfport Energy Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries in their prearranged Chapter 11 restructuring in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Gulfport is an independent returns-oriented, gas-weighted exploration and development company and one of the largest producers of natural gas in the contiguous United States, with significant acreage positions in Ohio and Oklahoma.
Altera Infrastructure L.P. and its subsidiaries in several term loans and revolving loans and in a transformative par-for-par exchange transaction of $700 million in term loans, revolving loans and high yield bonds for new longer-dated structurally senior high yield bonds.
