Griffin Peeples

Since joining Kirkland, Griffin has been involved in the following matters:

• Northampton Capital Partners in its investment in Blueprint Data Centers, a developer of data centers designed with flexibility to support high-performance computing workloads.
• DNOW Inc. (NYSE: DNOW) in its $1.5 billion all-stock acquisition of MRC Global Inc. (NYSE: MRC).
• Bluebird Fiber in its agreement to acquire Everstream, a business-only fiber network.
• WIN Waste Innovations in its sale of South Broward Waste-to-Energy Facility in Florida.
• Macquarie Asset Management in the sale of Macquarie Rotorcraft, a helicopter leasing company, to SMFL LCI Helicopters.
• Northampton Capital Partners in the arrangement agreement with Altius Renewable Royalties Corp. (TSX: ARR; OTCQX: ARTWF) to acquire the public float of ARR.
• ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE: OKE) in its $2.6 billion acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners’ equity interests in Medallion Midstream, LLC.
• Bernhard Capital Partners in its $1.252 billion acquisition of New Mexico Gas Company, Inc., the largest natural gas utility in New Mexico, from Emera Inc.
• LM Energy, a portfolio company of Old Ironsides Energy, in the sale of its natural gas gathering and transportation business in the Delaware Basin to Trace Midstream.
• Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in its approximately $1 billion investment in a portfolio of wind and solar projects with NextEra Energy Resources.
• Ryan, LLC in its CAD $700 million acquisition of the Property Tax business of Altus Group Limited.
• Lagoon Operating – Midland LLC in its sale to Deep Blue Midland Basin LLC, a joint venture between Diamondback Energy (Nasdaq: FANG) and Five Point Energy.
• CyrusOne on securing a $687.1 million Single Asset Single Borrower Commercial Mortgage-Backed Security (CMBS) loan for CyrusOne’s DFW1 data center, the company’s inaugural CMBS issuance.
• CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider of large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, in its $7.5 billion debt financing facility.
• Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) in its sale of an equity stake in Phase 1 of NextDecade Corporation’s (Nasdaq: NEXT) Rio Grande LNG to ADNOC.
• Consortium of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) in the $6.2 billion acquisition of ALLETE, Inc. (NYSE: ALE).
• Allied Industrial Partners in its strategic investment in Celebrity Coaches, a provider of transportation and logistics for the live events and entertainment sector.
• Macquarie Asset Management in its sale of Lordstown Energy Center to ArcLight Capital Partners.
• Sandbrook Capital in its investment of up to $460 million in rPlus Energies, a private renewable energy developer.
• Ridgewood Infrastructure in its acquisition of Waste Resources Management.
• Ryan, LLC, a global tax services, software and technology firm, on a $950 million initial term loan B, $225 million of revolving commitments and $100 million of delayed draw term loan B commitments.
• Special tax counsel to Intersect Power, LLC on its Oberon Solar + Storage Project located in Riverside County, California.
• 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.
• Blackstone in its joint acquisition with Vista Equity Partners of Energy Exemplar, a global provider of energy market simulation software.
• Global Infrastructure Partners in its investment in Rio Grande LNG’s $18.4 billion Phase I development and project financing.
• Colgate Energy Partners III, LLC in its merger of equals with Centennial Resource Development, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDEV) to form Permian Resources Corporation (NYSE: PR), a $7 billion company.
• Quantum Capital Group, 547 Energy, and ConnectGen in its $768 million sale of ConnectGen to Repsol.
• Blue Source Sustainable Forests Co., a joint venture between TPG Rise-backed Anew Climate and various equity investors, in its $1.8 billion acquisition of various entities managed by The Forestland Group and its $1+ billion capital raise.
• CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider of large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, in its $2.3 billion debt financing facility.
• Bernhard Capital Partners in its $484 million acquisition of Entergy’s gas distribution business.
• CyrusOne in its formation of a joint venture with KEPCO, a leading Japanese energy provider, for the purpose of building, operating and scaling data centers in Japan.
• Consortium and KKR in the $15 billion all-cash acquisition of CyrusOne Inc. (Nasdaq: CONE).
• Lone Star Funds in its acquisition of Titan Acquisition Holdings, a bi-coastal leader in ship repair services and marine and heavy complex fabrication.
• Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd. on agreement to acquire all publicly held common units of Höegh LNG Partners LP.
• CyrusOne in a $701 million asset-backed securitization of a portfolio of data centers located in Virginia and Texas.
• Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P., together with Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, in its acquisition of Compass Datacenters, a designer and provider of data centers for hyperscalers and cloud providers on campuses across the globe.
• Orion Infrastructure Capital in its investment in Heliene, Inc. via a senior secured debt facility and purchase of preferred equity.
• Energy Spectrum, together with its portfolio company ESGEN, in the $475 million business combination of ESGEN Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: ESAC) with Sunergy Renewables, a leading provider or residential solar and energy efficiency solutions.
• Whiting Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: WLL) in its $6 billion merger of equals with Oasis Petroleum Inc. (Nasdaq: OAS).
• Special Committee of ProFrac Holding Corp.’s Board of Directors in the all-stock acquisition of U.S. Well Services, Inc.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Griffin was involved in the following matters:

• Represented large publicly traded oil and gas corporation in Senior Notes Offering and Concurrent Cash Tender Offers.
• Represented the underwriters in a debenture offering of a large publicly traded company.
• Advised large publicly traded oil and gas corporation in its merger of equals with large publicly traded oil and gas corporation, as well as its exchange of senior notes.