William Dong, P.C.

Since joining Kirkland, William's representative matters have included: 

• Generate Capital, PBC on its sale of two operational data centers in Granbury, Texas and Kearney, Nebraska to Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MARA)

• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (OTPP) in its $250 million majority stake investment in Sevana Bioenergy, a developer of large-scale renewable natural gas projects

• HGGC in its majority investment in Grand Fitness Partners, a franchisee within the Planet Fitness health club system

• Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE) in its $3.4 billion all-stock merger of equals with Maersk Drilling (CSE: DRLCO) 

• Ares’s Infrastructure & Power strategy in its acquisition of a majority stake in Apex Clean Energy, a leading renewables developer transitioning to an independent power producer, and certain related co-investment arrangements

• Stonepeak Partners LP in the formation of Levo Mobility LLC, a $750 million sustainable infrastructure joint venture with Nuvve Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: NVVE) 

• Pike Corporation, one of the largest providers of infrastructure solutions to utilities in the United States, in connection with a majority investment by Lindsay Goldberg

• Conflicts committee of the board of directors of the general partner of TC PipeLines, LP (NYSE: TCP) in its approximately $1.68 billion all-stock acquisition by TC Energy Corporation (NYSE: TRP) 

• Custom Truck One Source (CTOS), a Blackstone portfolio company, in its $1.475 billion sale to Nesco Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NSCO) 

• LLamasoft in its $1.5 billion sale to Coupa Software 

• HighPoint Resources Corp. (NYSE: HPR) on its $376 million combination with Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc. (NYSE: BCEI) 

• Penn Virginia Corporation (NASDAQ:PVAC) in Juniper Capital Advisors, L.P.’s $188 million strategic investment in the company, including $150 million of cash and certain oil and gas assets, in exchange for 59 percent of Penn Virginia’s equity

• Parsley Energy, Inc. in tax and structuring advice for its $2.27 billion all-stock acquisition of Jagged Peak Energy Inc.

• TPG Growth and HotSchedules in the sale of HotSchedules to Marlin Equity Partners 

• National Veterinary Associates in its sale to JAB Investors

• Amplify Energy Corp. in tax and structuring advice for an all-stock merger-of-equals with Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. 

• Nesco, an industrial equipment rental business owned by ECP, in its $1.1 billion combination with Capitol Investment Corp. IV, a special purpose acquisition company

• BlackRock, GSO Capital Partners and Magnetar Capital as lead purchasers in the $1.2 billion convertible preferred equity investment in EQM Midstream Partners, LP, a growth-oriented master limited partnership operating in the Appalachian Basin

• Savage Companies in its merger with Bartlett and Company and the subsequent Savage Enterprises joint venture, a leading global provider of supply chain and industrial services spanning the agriculture, energy and chemical, and environmental sectors

Prior to joining Kirkland, William’s representative matters included:

• Straight Path Communications Inc. in its $3.1 billion sale to Verizon Communications in an all-stock merger intended to qualify as a tax-free reorganization

• Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a $13.7 billion committed unsecured bridge facility to finance Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market

• HNA Group Co. Ltd. in its $6.5 billion acquisition of an approximate 25% interest in Hilton Inc., Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. and Hilton Grand Vacations Inc. (collectively, f/k/a Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.) from affiliates of Blackstone

• MGM Resorts International in the formation of MGM Growth Properties LLC (MGP), a real estate investment trust, and the tax aspects of MGP’s $1.05 billion initial public offering

• Partners Group Limited in its acquisition of a majority interest in Pacific Bells, Inc. and World Wide Wings, LLC

• HNA Group and Tianjin Tianhai Investment Company in their $6 billion acquisition of Ingram Micro

• Montagu Private Equity LLP in its $725 million sale of Centor to Gerresheimer AG

• Advent International Corporation in its acquisition of a majority interest in Distribution International, Inc.

• Paul J. Taubman and firm PJT Partners in the combination of PJT Partners with the financial and strategic advisory services, restructuring and reorganization advisory services, and Park Hill fund placement businesses of Blackstone and the spin-out of the combined business to create an independent, publicly traded company

• DIRECTV in its $67.1 billion sale to AT&T in a transaction intended to qualify as a tax-free reorganization

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, 2013–2017