Brooksany Barrowes

Since joining Kirkland, Brooksany has been involved in the following transactions:

• Global Infrastructure Partners in its $12.5 billion acquisition by BlackRock (NYSE: BLK), creating a leading infrastructure private markets investment platform with over $150 billion in AUM
• Bernhard Capital Partners in its $484 million acquisition of the gas distribution business from Entergy (NYSE: ETR)
• Global Infrastructure Partners in its investment in Rio Grande LNG’s $18.4 billion Phase I development and project financing
• Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in its $1 billion equity investment in Invenergy Renewables Holdings
• Air Products in $30 million dispute against EDF Energy Services arising from the February 2021 Texas winter storm
• Quantum Energy Partners, a leading provider of private equity capital to the global energy industry, on its partnership with the management of Bison Oil & Gas (Bison) to form Bison Oil & Gas Partners IV, LLC (Bison IV) with equity capital commitments in excess of $500 million. Bison IV will focus on the acquisition and responsible development of oil and natural gas assets in the Denver-Julesburg Basin of Colorado and Wyoming
• I Squared Capital, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund III, on acquiring a controlling interest in the Whistler Pipeline, a leading natural gas infrastructure asset connecting the Permian Basin’s growing natural gas supply to LNG, Mexico and Gulf Stream demand
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in its $805 million convertible equity portfolio financing of a large portfolio of renewables assets owned by NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: NEP)
• Blackstone Infrastructure Partners on its participation in a consortium of investors that secured an almost 84,000 acre lease for $645 million in the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s New York Bight offshore wind auction 
• Tailwater Capital, together with its portfolio company, Producers Midstream II, in the pending acquisition of Midcoast Energy’s Anadarko gathering and processing (G&P) system and a 35% interest in the Texas Express Gathering (TEG) system
• The Rise Fund, a TPG-managed global impact fund, in its acquisition of Element Markets, the leading independent marketer of renewable natural gas and environmental commodities in North America 
• KKR on its definitive agreements with NextEra Energy Resources and NextEra Energy Partners, LP to acquire a large portfolio of renewables assets
• Cypress Creek Renewables on a mezzanine debt financing backed by a 1.6 GW portfolio of operating solar projects, and on a senior financing of a portfolio of 14 operating solar projects
• WPX Energy, Inc. in its $12 billion all-stock merger of equals with Devon Energy Corporation 
• Longview Power, LLC and its affiliates in obtaining FERC approvals associated with their prepackaged Chapter 11 cases involving the restructuring of approximately $355 million in funded debt. Longview operates a 710 net megawatt supercritical coal fired power generation facility in Maidsville, West Virginia that is at the forefront of the clean coal movement
• KKR in its $900 million acquisition financing of an equity interest in a newly-formed partnership with NextEra Energy Partners, LP that owns a geographically diverse portfolio of ten utility scale wind and solar projects across the United States, collectively consisting of approximately 1,192 megawatts. This transaction was recognized as “Americas Power Deal of the Year” for 2019 by Project Finance International
• GSO Capital Partners LP, an affiliate of Blackstone (NYSE: BX), in connection with an investment-grade term loan facility and a construction-to-term loan facility for Altus Power America, a market-leading solar power company that provides clean electricity to commercial, industrial and municipal clients across the United States
• Lenders in connection with the $3.4 billion Train 3 refinancing for Freeport LNG
• Investec Bank plc and the lenders in the senior secured and mezzanine financing for Cardinal States Gathering Co. LLC
• GSO Capital Partners LP, an affiliate of Blackstone, in its preferred and common equity investment in Altus Power America, Inc., a solar generation company, as part of an $850 million recapitalization of Altus 
• TPG in its preferred equity investment of up to $140 million to fund capital contributions to Double E Pipeline LLC, a joint venture between Summit Midstream Partners LP and Exxon Mobil Corporation, to construct a FERC-regulated interstate natural gas pipeline in the Delaware Basin 
• EIG Global Energy Partners in its $750 million acquisition of equity interests in South Texas Midstream, LLC, a newly-formed joint venture with NextEra Energy Partners, LP
• Brookfield Super-Core Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure fund managed by Brookfield Asset Management Inc., in its approximately $2 billion acquisition of a 25 percent equity interest in Dominion Energy, Inc.’s Cove Point LNG LP.
• SemGroup Corp. in its approximately $5.1 billion sale to Energy Transfer LP
• The lenders in the approximately $1.27 billion refinancing for Train 2 of the Freeport LNG facility 
• The lenders in the financing of Guernsey Power Project
• Hilcorp Alaska — representation in its $5.6 billion acquisition of BP’s upstream and midstream business in Alaska

Prior to joining Kirkland, Brooksany was involved in the following transactions:

• Major private equity firm — regulatory counsel for $2.1 billion acquisitions of 5,200 MW, natural gas- and coal-fueled generation portfolio in Ohio and Indiana
• Coalition of transmission owners in MISO — proceedings before FERC regarding RTO-to-RTO disputes over use of transmission across seams
• Coalition of transmission owners in MISO — proceedings before FERC and the D.C. Circuit regarding transmission planning and cost allocation issues
• Investor-owned utility — litigation before FERC regarding cost allocation issues associated with integration of neighboring utility into the SPP market
• Private equity owner of generation and energy trading portfolio — developed energy regulatory compliance manual and conducted employee training, assisted with enforcement and investigation matters before the PUCT and FERC
• Merchant generation and transmission owner — representation regarding expansion of a cross-border transmission line connecting a generating facility in South Texas to the electric grid in Mexico, with associated permits and regulatory approvals
• Electric utility company — representation before DOE, FERC, ERCOT, PUCT, and various Mexican regulatory authorities in obtaining qualifications for cross-border transmission and power sales and to participate in the Mexican wholesale electric market
• Merchant generation company — arbitration of a dispute over the commercial terms of a tolling agreement
• Natural gas production, midstream and storage company — counsel for FERC tariff and certificate matters, rates and regulatory aspects of purchase and sale of pipeline and storage assets
• Electric utility company — representation in a NERC, FERC and FRCC joint investigation of compliance with Electric Reliability Standards in connection with a major outage event in Florida
• Electric utility company — counsel for rate cases, permits, policy cases, market design and associated administrative litigation before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• Merchant generation company — proceedings before FERC, SEC and CFTC; various internal investigation and Department of Justice matters and related civil lawsuits
• New corporation — counsel in the application and licensing process to construct and operate a new pipeline in the United States, and in associated litigation
• National energy marketing company — counsel on natural gas marketing matters, including pipeline affiliate Standards of Conduct and FERC authorizations
• Public utility — internal investigations and related regulatory and litigation matters; counsel regarding acceptable trading practices and policies across industries
• Merchant generation company — representation in rulemaking proceedings to set standards of conduct and behavioral rules for electricity and natural gas markets
• National energy marketing company — representation in the execution of long-term power purchase and sale agreements

Partner & Deputy Department Chair for Global Projects, Baker Botts LLP