Enoch Varner

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

• The Issuer in a confidential preferred equity and warrant offering.
• Vance Street Capital in connection with its GP-led secondary transaction extending its investment in portfolio company Motion Dynamics.
• Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd. in its definitive merger agreement with Höegh LNG Partners LP (NYSE: HMLP) to acquire all of the outstanding publicly held common units of the partnership in a going private transaction.
• Penn Virginia Corp. (NASDAQ: PVAC) in its $370 million merger with Lonestar Resources US Inc. (OTCQX: LONE).
• Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc. (NASDAQ: XOG) in Civitas Resources, Inc.’s $4.5 billion acquisition of Crestone Peak Resources.
• Orion Biotech Opportunities Corp., a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by affiliates of MSD Partners, L.P. and Panacea Venture Healthcare in its $200 million initial public offering.
• MSD Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of MSD Partners, L.P., in its $575 million initial public offering.
• Bluescape Energy Partners LLC in a $115 million common equity investment in Evergy Inc.
• Maverick Natural Resources in its merger with FourPoint Energy LLC to create Unbridled Resources LLC.

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

• Athlon Energy Inc. in its $7.1 billion sale to Encana Corporation.
• Athlon Energy Inc. in its initial public offerings.
• Plains Exploration & Production Company in its $9 billion acquisition by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. of Plains Exploration & Production Company and McMoRan Exploration Company.
• Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. in its $9.2 billion acquisition of Southern Union Company.
• Plains Exploration & Production Company in its $450 million sale of Plains Offshore Operations, Inc., the US-based Gulf of Mexico assets of Plains Exploration & Production Company.
• Midstream MLP Issuer in its $250 million initial public offering.
• Underwriters of a $165 million initial public offering of an oilfield services company.
• Midstream MLP Issuer in its $273 million initial public offering.
• Initial Purchasers in its $300 million offering of senior notes.
• Upstream Issuer in its $1.8 billion offering of senior notes.

Energy Capital Partners, 2015–2020

Latham & Watkins LLP, 2009–2015