Hunter A. Richey
Overview
Hunter Richey is a capital markets associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP based in Washington, D.C. His practice focuses on corporate finance, corporate governance and securities law compliance, including securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He regularly represents public and private companies and private equity sponsors in connection with complex debt and equity capital markets transactions, including high-yield and convertible debt offerings, IPOs and other equity offerings, and restructuring and liability management transactions, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors.
Experience
Representative Matters
High-Yield & Other Debt Offerings
- Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) in its upsized issuance of $200 million of 3.625% convertible unsecured senior notes due April 2029.
- Civitas Resources, Inc. (NYSE: CIVI) in connection with its upsized offering of $750 million of senior notes.
- Summit Midstream Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Summit Midstream Corporation (NYSE: SMC), in connection with its offering of $250 million of senior secured second lien notes.
- Summit Midstream Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP), in connection with its offering of $575 million of 8.625% senior secured second lien notes due 2029 and concurrent tender offer for certain of its outstanding notes.
- Talos Production Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Talos Energy Inc. (NYSE: TALO), in connection with its upsized offering of $1.25 billion of second-priority senior secured notes.
- Tellurian Inc. (NYSE: TELL) $250 million senior secured notes and $83.334 million senior secured convertible notes.
- Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) in its private placement of $500 million of new 8.750% senior notes due 2031.
- Northern Oil & Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) in its upsized $500 million 144A offering of convertible senior notes and associated capped call and share repurchase transactions.
- Callon Petroleum Co. (NYSE: CPE) in its $600 million offering of 7.50% senior unsecured notes.
- Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) in connection with its add-on offering of $200 million aggregate principal amount of additional 8.125% senior notes due 2028.
- Strathcona Resources Ltd. in its inaugural offering of $500 million of its 6.875% senior notes due 2026.
- Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. in its private placement of $550 million of new 8.125% senior notes due 2028.
- Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. in its tender offer for any and all of its outstanding 8.50% senior secured second lien notes due 2023 and related consent solicitation.
- Talos Production Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Talos Energy Inc. (NYSE: TALO), in connection with its upsized add-on offering of $150 million of additional 12.00% second-priority senior secured notes due 2026.
- Talos Production Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Talos Energy Inc. (NYSE: TALO), in connection with its upsized offering of $500 million of its new 12.00% second-priority senior secured notes due 2026.
Equity Offerings
- Summit Midstream Corporation (NYSE: SMC) on its reorganization from a master limited partnership to a corporation.
- Civitas Resources (NYSE: CIVI) in connection with an underwritten secondary offering of 6,956,520 shares of its common stock.
- Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) in connection with its follow-on offering of 6.5 million shares of its common stock for gross proceeds of $252.7 million.
- Ramaco Resources, Inc. (Nasdaq: METC, METCB) in its public offering of 9.4 million shares of “tracking stock” as Class B common stock and reclassification of its existing common stock as Class A common stock.
- Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) in connection with its follow-on offering of 7,647,500 shares of its common stock for gross proceeds of $229.4 million.
- Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) in connection with its combined primary and secondary underwritten follow-on offering of an aggregate 10,000,000 shares of common stock for gross proceeds to the company of $190 million.
- Talos Energy Inc. (NYSE: TALO) in connection with an underwritten secondary offering of 6,000,000 shares of its common stock.
- Talos Energy Inc. (NYSE: TALO) in connection with an underwritten secondary offering of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock.
- Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) in connection with its follow-on offering of 5,750,000 shares of its common stock for gross proceeds of $100.6 million.
- 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.
- Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. in its public offering of 14,375,000 shares of common stock.
- Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC in the $276 million initial public offering of Ivanhoe Capital Acquisition Corp., focusing on business combination targets in the electrification industry.
- Talos Energy Inc. (NYSE: TALO) in connection with its follow-on offering of 8,250,000 shares of its common stock for gross proceeds of $73 million.
Mergers & Acquisitions
- Blackstone on the $4.1 billion all-equity merger of Sitio Royalties Corp. (NYSE: STR) with Viper Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: VNOM).
- Constellation Energy Corporation (Nasdaq: CEG) in its $26.6 billion acquisition of Calpine Corp.
- Callon Petroleum Company (NYSE: CPE) in its $4.5 billion all-stock sale to APA Corporation (Nasdaq: APA).
- Ovintiv Inc. (NYSE: OVV) in its $4.275 billion acquisition of all leasehold interest and related assets of Black Swan Oil & Gas, PetroLegacy Energy and Piedra Resources, and the concurrent $825 million sale of its Bakken assets.
- Riley Exploration Permian, Inc. (NYSE: REPX) in its $330 million acquisition of oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin from Pecos Oil & Gas, LLC.
- Tailwater Capital, together with its portfolio company, Blue Tide Environmental, in the sale of a 49% interest in Blue Tide Environmental to Pennzoil-Quaker State, a subsidiary of Shell plc, to establish a joint venture that builds, owns and operates a global network of lubricant recycling facilities.
- Tailwater Capital in its $423 million sale of NorTex Midstream to Williams (NYSE: WMB).
- Augment Infrastructure in its $85 million investment with the Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries in Origo Energia, a distributed generation company in Brazil.
- TPG Rise Climate and The Rise Fund in its investment in Monolith Materials, a producer of clean hydrogen and carbon black using commercial-scale methane pyrolysis, in connection with a $300 million equity raise by Monolith Materials.
- PropTech Investment Corporation II (Nasdaq: PTIC), a special purpose acquisition company, in its $575 million business combination with RW National Holdings (d/b/a Appreciate), the parent holding company of Renters Warehouse, an end-to-end Single Family Rental (SFR) marketplace and management platform.
- Blackstone Infrastructure Partners on its $3 billion equity investment in Invenergy Renewables Holdings LLC in one of the largest renewables investments in North American history.
- Therma Holdings, a Blackstone portfolio company, in its acquisitions of CMTA and Building Systems Holdings.
- ECP in connection with the acquisition of Liberty Tire Recycling from The Carlyle Group.
- Peridot Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: PDAC) on its $1.67 billion combination agreement with Li-Cycle Corp.
- Guidon Operating LLC in the divestiture of all leasehold interests and related assets to Diamondback Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FANG) for a mixture of cash and shares of Diamondback common stock.
- HighPoint Resources Corp. (NYSE: HPR) on its $376 million combination with Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc. (NYSE: BCEI).
Restructurings
- Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) and its affiliate, the largest creditor of Wolfspeed, Inc. (NYSE: WOLF) and its affiliated debtor, in Wolfspeed’s prepackaged Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Prior to the Chapter 11 filing, Renesas entered into a restructuring support agreement with Wolfspeed and its key lenders for the exchange of, among other things, Renesas’ existing unsecured loan for secured convertible notes, warrants and common stock in reorganized Wolfspeed.
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2025District of Columbia
- 2020Texas
Education
- Georgetown University Law CenterJ.D.cum laude2020
Administrative Editor, Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy
“Best Brief,” Robert J. Beaudry Moot Court Competition
- University of AlabamaB.S., Economics & Political Sciencesumma cum laude2017