R.J. Malenfant

R.J.'s representative matters have included:

• Beacon Offshore Energy in its divestiture of its non-operated interests in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to GOM 1 Holdings, Inc., an affiliate of O.G. Oil & Gas Limited.
• W&T Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: WTI), a leading independent oil and natural gas producer with operations offshore in the Gulf of Mexico — in its successful acquisition of six fields in shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico from the Chapter 11 estates of Cox Operating, LLC. The six fields acquired each include a 100% working interest and an average 82% net revenue interest. The section 363 sale was approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
• 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.
• 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.
• IOG Resources II LLC — in its acquisition of Appalachia Basin non-operated oil & gas assets.
• A private company — in the issuance of over $200 million of asset-backed securities secured by operated producing oil and gas wells.
• Riley Exploration Permian, Inc. (NYSE: REPX) — in its joint venture with Conduit Power, LLC to use gas from oilfield production in the Permian Basin to generate electrical power.
• 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.
• Hatch Royalty LLC — in Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP's (NYSE: KRP) approximately $290 million purchase of its mineral and royalty interests located in the Permian Basin.
• Red Bluff Resources and Bricktown Energy, portfolio companies of HPS Investment Partners — in the sale of substantially all of their oil and gas properties to Citizen Energy.  
• APR Operating LLC — in its sale of oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin to Petro-Hunt LLC. 
• IOG Resources LLC — in its acquisition of Delaware Basin producing oil and gas assets from Tier 1 Merced Holdings LLC. 
• Diversified Energy Company (LSE:DEC) — in the closing of a sustainability-linked asset backed securitization (ABS) of certain Barnett Shale assets in North Texas. 
• Civitas Resources Inc. (NYSE: CIVI) — in its $346 million acquisition of Bison Oil & Gas II LLC. 
• Warwick Investment Group — in its $450 million acquisition of operated oil and gas assets in Texas's Eagle Ford Shale from Rosewood Resources and related drilling commitments.
• Fortress Investment Group LLC — in the acquisition of Colony Capital’s positions in approximately $2.7 billion of non-digital energy and real estate assets. 
• Pickering Energy Partners — in its partnership with a private operator in the Midland Basin.
• Indigo Minerals LLC — in its $135 million sale of certain Cotton Valley upstream oil and gas assets and related facilities located primarily in the state of Louisiana to Diversified Gas & Oil plc. 
• ACON S2 Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: STWO), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company — on its business combination with ESS Tech, Inc., a manufacturer of long-duration iron flow batteries for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications. 
• Denbury Inc. (NYSE: DEN) — on the restructuring of its long-standing CO2 pipeline arrangements with Genesis Energy, L.P. (NYSE: GEL).
• Callon Petroleum Company — in capital structure initiatives used to reduce borrowings on Callon’s credit facility, including entering into a $140 million cash generating overriding royalty interest ("ORRI") transaction with a private investment vehicle managed by Kimmeridge Energy, and a $300 million issuance of secured second lien notes and warrants.
• Raisa Energy LLC — in a first of its kind transaction involving Raisa’s issuance of asset-backed securities secured by producing oil and gas wells.
• Riviera Resources, Inc. — in the sales of certain (1) oil and gas assets and gas processing facilities in the Hugoton Gas Field in Kansas for $295 million, and (2) Michigan properties for approximately $44.5 million. 
• Wing Resources LLC and Wing Resources II LLC, portfolio companies of Natural Gas Partners — in the sale of Midland Basin oil and gas mineral interests to Alliance Resource Partners L.P.
• Ensign Natural Resources LLC/Warburg Pincus — acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc.’s (NYSE:PXD) Eagle Ford Shale assets, including approximately 59,000 net acres and 14,400 net boepd.
• Harvest Oil & Gas Corp. — in the sales of certain (1) South Texas assets for approximately $132 million in cash and 4.2 million shares of newly-issued stock to Magnolia Oil & Gas (NYSE:MGY), (2) Barnett Shale assets for $72 million, (3) New Mexico and Colorado assets for $37.2 million to a private oil and gas company, and (4) Mid-Continent assets to a private oil and gas company.
• Private Oil and Gas Operator — formation of drilling partnership to develop up to 44 wells in the Permian Basin with a private oil and gas investment entity.
• Cobalt International Energy — 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 Southern District of Texas: (i) sale of assets located in the Gulf of Mexico to Total E&P USA, Inc. and Statoil Gulf of Mexico LLC for $339 million; (ii) sale of assets located in the Gulf of Mexico to Total E&P USA, Inc. for $181 million; (iii) sale of assets located in the Gulf of Mexico to W&T Offshore, Inc. for $31 million; and (iv) sale of assets located in the Gulf of Mexico to Total E&P USA, Inc. for $25 million.
• Private equity backed oil and gas company — formation of $195 million drilling partnership to develop domestic unconventional resources in the Utica Shale with a private oil and gas company.
• LINN Energy, Inc. — in the following divestures of oil and gas assets: (1) $122 million sale of its interest in waterflood properties in Oklahoma and properties in the Texas Panhandle to an undisclosed buyer; (2) $119.5 million sale of its interest in conventional properties located in the Permian Basin, Texas, to an undisclosed buyer; (3) $100 million sale of its interest in properties located in the Brea-Olinda Field in California to Bridge Energy LLC; and (4) $71.5 million sale of its interest in properties located in the Salt Creek Field in Wyoming to Denbury Resources Inc.
• KKR/Venado Oil and Gas, LLC — $300 million acquisition of certain of EXCO Resources, Inc.’s (NYSE: XCO) producing and non-producing oil and natural gas properties in South Texas.

Prior to joining Kirkland, R.J.’s representative matters included:

• Independent Oil and Gas Company — Divestiture of $385 million of assets in the Anadarko Basin.
• Independent Oil and Gas Company — Sale of interest in midstream oil and gas company.
• International Oil and Gas Company — Divestiture of downstream oil and gas assets in Latin America.
• Independent Energy Company — Acquisition of solar energy project in Latin America.
• Independent Energy Company — Project financing of energy infrastructure assets in Latin America.

Baker Botts LLP, Associate