Energy & Natural Resources – Private Equity

Private equity team providing comprehensive transactional, regulatory, and strategic counsel to sponsors, portfolio companies, and investors across the energy and natural resources sectors, including oil, gas, and renewables.

Our private equity team represents investors and companies across the energy and natural resources landscape. We guide clients through their largest, most complex transactions spanning the oil and gas value chain – upstream, midstream, and downstream – as well as commodities trading, marketing, infrastructure, and oilfield services.

Our clients include private equity sponsors, portfolio firms, institutional investors, strategic companies, lenders, and management teams.  

Clients turn to us to deploy capital efficiently, accelerate growth, manage risk, and solve regulatory, financing, and cross-border execution challenges. We deliver practical solutions that protect value and close on time and on the terms negotiated.

Our Energy & Natural Resources Group has lawyers in New York, Pittsburgh, Texas, Washington, D.C., London, Singapore, and Beijing. Our team brings decades of experience as former in-house counsel, regulatory agency alumni, and trusted outside counsel, allowing us to anticipate issues from all sides – commercial, regulatory, and operational. Beyond oil and gas, we advise on high-profile renewables and power generation equity investments, including platform builds, carveouts, joint ventures, and growth capital. Working seamlessly with our other practice groups, we combine deep local market knowledge with cross-border M&A capability to execute transactions globally.  

We regularly navigate antitrust and foreign investment reviews, complex offtake and interconnection frameworks, and multijurisdictional tax and structuring issues to help clients move quickly from term sheet to closing while managing commodity, regulatory, and construction risk.

Our midmarket private equity practice represents sponsors and corporates in domestic and international deals across the full investment life cycle – acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, restructurings, and exits. We also support fund formation, co-invests, and portfolio company counseling, helping clients maximize operational performance, value creation, and exit readiness.

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