Randy Santa Ana

While at Kirkland, Randy's representative matters have included:

• KKR in its acquisition of a majority equity stake in Avantus, a premier developer of large utility-scale solar and solar-plus-storage projects
• 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
• Civitas Resources in its $2.45 billion definitive agreement to acquire oil producing assets in the Delaware Basin from Tap Rock Resources, a portfolio company of NGP Energy Capital Management
• Earthstone Energy, Inc. (NYSE: ESTE) and Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) in their $1.5 billion Delaware Basin acquisition of oil and gas assets from Novo Oil & Gas Holdings, LLC
• MAS Energy LLC and MAS CanAM LLC in the sale of MAS CanAm’s renewable natural gas development platform to CIM Group
• Mas CanAm LLC in its $355 million sale of three renewable natural gas landfill assets to Kinder Morgan Inc.
• Blackstone Energy Partners in its $400 million investment in Xpansiv Limited, the leading market-infrastructure platform for global carbon and environmental commodities 
• Executive Network Partnering Corp. (NYSE: ENPC), a special purpose acquisition entity, in its $1.3 billion business combination with Grey Rock Investment Partners, a Dallas-based investment firm, resulting in the formation of publicly traded Granite Ridge Resources, Inc. 
• Kimmeridge in its $200 million investment in Chestnut Carbon LLC, a nature-based carbon offset platform 
• Navitas Midstream Partners Holdings LLC, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus LLC, in its $3.25 billion sale of its Midland Basin natural gas gathering, treating and processing business to Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE: EPD) 
• Blackstone on the $1.9 billion all-stock merger of Desert Peak Minerals and Falcon Minerals Corporation
• Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: XPDI), a special purpose acquisition company, on its approximately $4.3 billion combination with Core Scientific Holding Co., a 100% net carbon neutral, vertically integrated blockchain infrastructure and mining company, and Blockcap, Inc., a leader in digital asset mining
• Pickering Energy Partners in its partnership with a private operator in the Midland Basin
• Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp., a blank check company sponsored by XPDI Sponsor LLC, on its upsized $300 million initial public offering 
• Forest Road Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: FRX) on its definitive three-way merger agreement with The Beachbody Company Group, LLC and Myx Fitness Holdings, LLC 
• HighPoint Resources Corp. (NYSE: HPR) on its $376 million combination with Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc. (NYSE: BCEI)
• Bluescape Clean Fuels, a clean fuels technology company, in its formation and acquisition of assets
• AVAIO Capital, as the lead investor of a consortium that acquired control of Mexico Pacific Limited LLC, the developer of an LNG export facility in Puerto Libertad in Sonora, Mexico
• ArcLight Energy Partners Fund VI, L.P. in its subsidiary TLP Finance Holdings, LLC’s $536 million acquisition by merger of the outstanding common units that ArcLight and its affiliates do not currently own of TransMontaigne Partners L.P.
• Royal Resources, an entity owned by funds managed by Blackstone Energy Partners and Blackstone Capital Partners, in the sale of its Eagle Ford Shale assets for a transaction value of $894 million to Osprey Energy Acquisition Corp., an energy-focused SPAC

Prior to joining Kirkland, Randy's representative matters included:

• A public company’s acquisition of a privately-held business in three stock-for-stock mergers involving an aggregate transaction value in excess of $2 billion

• A public midstream energy company’s approximately $1.3 billion acquisition of a business unit

• A public midstream energy company’s approximately $32 million disposition of certain assets

• The sole underwriter in the offering of common stock of a public exploration and production company resulting in proceeds of approximately $2.16 billion

• The initial purchasers in connection with the Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by a public exploration and production company of $350 million of senior unsecured notes

• A public midstream energy company’s $550 million underwritten offering of senior unsecured notes

• A public E&P company's redemption of $500 million of senior notes

• A public midstream energy company’s $450 million underwritten offering of senior unsecured notes

• A public E&P company's $500 million private offering of senior secured notes

Associate, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

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