Rahul D. Vashi

Since joining Kirkland, Rahul has been involved in the following representations:

• Cordero Energy Resources LLC in its $130 million sale of certain oil and gas assets in Howard County, Texas, to Laredo Petroleum

• Represented the private equity sponsors and Sable Permian Resources, LLC (as operator of the oil and gas assets) in the successful completion of AEPB’s $2.1 billion out-of-court recapitalization. The transaction reduced AEPB’s debt obligations by approximately $1.4 billion and reduced upcoming debt maturities over the next four years to approximately $36 million from approximately $2.1 billion. In addition, the transaction eliminated approximately $94 million of annual cash interest expense and simplified AEPB's organizational structure

• Riviera Resources, Inc. in its $295 million sale of oil and gas assets and gas processing facilities in the Hugoton Gas Field in Kansas

• Amplify Energy Corp. in an all-stock merger-of-equals with Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc.

• LLOG Bluewater Holdings, LLC in its $1.4 billion sale of Gulf of Mexico assets to Murphy Oil Corp.

• Roxo Energy, a portfolio company of Vortus Investments, in the sale of its interest in oil and gas leases and wells in Howard and Borden Counties, Texas, to Murchison Oil and Gas, LLC

• Newfield Exploration Co. in its approximately $5.5 billion acquisition by Encana Corp. in an all-stock transaction

• COERT Holdings 1 in its successful Section 363 acquisition of the Enduro Royalty Trust assets and interests from Enduro Resource Partners

• Red Rocks Energy Partners, L.P. in the acquisition of certain conventional assets in Oklahoma’s SCOOP play from affiliates of Titanium Exploration Partners, LLC

• Canyon Creek Energy, a portfolio company of Vortus Investments, in the formation of a drilling partnership arrangement with Pivotal Petroleum Partners II, LP to develop wells in the Arkoma STACK play

• Alta Marcellus Development, LLC in the $115 million acquisition of Ultra Petroleum Corp.’s (NASDAQ:UPL) non-operated asset in the Marcellus Shale

• IOG Resources, LLC in the formation of a drilling partnership arrangement with a private oil and gas operator to develop up to 10 wells in the STACK play in Oklahoma

• LINN Energy, Inc. in the following divestures of oil and gas assets: (1) $585.1 million sale of its interest in properties located in the Jonah Field in Wyoming to Jonah Energy LLC; (2) $285 million sale of its interest in properties in the Williston Basin to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Valorem Energy, LLC; (3) $263 million sale of its interest in properties located in the San Joaquin Basin in California to Berry Petroleum Company, LLC; (4) $200 million sale of its interest in properties located in the Washakie Field in Wyoming to Washakie Exaro Opportunities, LLC; (5) $122 million sale of its interest in waterflood properties in Oklahoma and properties in the Texas Panhandle to an undisclosed buyer; (6) $119.5 million sale of its interest in conventional properties located in the Permian Basin, Texas, to an undisclosed buyer; (7) $100 million sale of its interest in properties located in the Brea-Olinda Field in California to Bridge Energy LLC; and (8) $71.5 million sale of its interest in properties located in the Salt Creek Field in Wyoming to Denbury Resources Inc.

• EQT Production Company's $527 million acquisition of Stone Energy Corporation’s Marcellus and Utica Shale assets out of bankruptcy

• Samson Resources Corporation in the following sales of oil and gas assets as part of its ongoing Chapter 11 proceeding in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware: (i) sale of assets located in the Williston Basin to Resource Energy Can-Am LLC for $75 million; (ii) sale of assets located in the San Juan Basin to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, doing business as Red Willow Production Co., for $116 million; (iii) sale of West Anadarko assets to Tecolote Holdings LLC for $131 million; (iv) sale of East Anadarko assets to Rebellion Energy LLC for $152 million; (v) sale of Central Anadarko assets to Fairway Resources Partners III LLC for $132 million; and (vi) sale of mineral interests located in the Permian Basin to Stone Hill Minerals Holdings LLC for $51.7 million

• Blackstone Energy Partners and Sanchez Energy Corporation in their 50/50 partnership, definitive purchase agreement and related financing to acquire Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s working interest in approximately 318,000 gross operated acres in the Western Eagle Ford for approximately $2.3 billion

• Evercore, as financial advisor to two portfolio companies managed by Kimmeridge Energy Management Co., in a $1.5 billion sale to PDC Energy, Inc.

• Evercore Group LLC as financial advisor to the board of directors of Silver Run Acquisition Corp. in its proposed acquisition of a controlling interest in Centennial Resource Production, LLC

Prior to joining Kirkland, Rahul was involved in the following representations:

Acquisitions, Divestitures and Joint Ventures

• A major E&P company in a series of five divestitures of producing properties in South and East Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi totaling over $1.2 billion

• A public company in the sale of its Granite Wash assets in Texas and Oklahoma for $588.5 million

• A public E&P company in the acquisition of assets in the Midland Basin for $538 million and the implementation of a horizontal drilling program on the acquired acreage

• A private E&P company in the acquisition of assets in the Eagle Ford Shale for $639 million

• A private E&P company in the acquisition of assets in the Anadarko Basin, Texas and Oklahoma, for $655 million

• A public company in its largest-ever acquisition of oil and gas assets, 42,000 net acres in the STACK play in Oklahoma for $470 million

• A U.S. energy company in the $750 million sale of membership interests in a private equity-backed oil and gas properties in the Eagle Ford Shale

• A public company in the acquisition of assets in the Permian Basin for $300 million

• A public E&P company in the Section 363 sale of all of its oil and gas assets out of bankruptcy for $245 million

• A major oil and gas producer in a joint exploration and development venture covering 100,000 acres in the Eaglebine Formation in Southeast Texas

• A private equity-backed investment entity in a proposed drilling partnership with a private oil company in the Eagle Ford Shale

• A private equity-backed E&P company in a joint development project in the East Texas Eaglebine play with one of the world’s largest public E&P companies

• A public E&P company in a large farmout and participation project in the Eagle Ford Shale

• A group of farmors in a multi-well farmout of leasehold acreage in the Eagle Ford Shale to a Fortune 100 company

• A publicly traded corporation in the acquisition of membership interests in a company owning leasehold in the Utica Shale for $300 million

• A private equity fund in its debt and equity investment to fund a private E&P company’s acquisition of oil and gas assets in Colorado

• A private equity fund in its acquisition of an equity stake in a drilling partnership to develop unconventional resources in Pennsylvania

• A public company in the sale of escalating wellbore interests to a master limited partnership and documents governing the joint operation of such wellbores

• A public oil and gas company in multiple asset dropdown transactions with its master limited partnership

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