Atma Kabad
Partner
Capital Markets
Overview
Atma Kabad is a partner in the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His principal area of practice includes capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance and securities law matters. He advises a variety of public and private companies, as well as private equity investors and their portfolio companies. Atma has extensive experience advising companies in registered offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities and public and private acquisitions and divestitures.
Experience
Representative Matters
Since joining Kirkland, Atma has been involved in the following transactions:
- Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. (NYSE: KGS) in the underwritten offering of 7 million shares of common stock by a selling stockholder for total gross proceeds of $175 million
- Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO) in its $22.5 billion all-stock sale to ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP)
- EQT in a joint venture between EQT Infrastructure VI fund and T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) to acquire Lumos, a fiber-to-the-home platform, and to build-out its fiber optic network
- Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO) in its offering of $1.2 billion in senior notes
- Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. (NYSE: KGS) in its $750 million offering of 7.25% senior unsecured notes
- Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET) in its $7.1 billion acquisition of Crestwood Equity Partners LP (NYSE: CEQP)
- Kodiak Gas Services, Inc. (NYSE: KGS) in its $256 million initial public offering
- Lux Vending LLC dba Bitcoin Depot® in its business combination with GSR II Meteora Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: GSRM), a special purpose acquisition company
- Gulfport Energy Corporation (NYSE: GPOR) in the underwritten offering of 1.5 million shares of common stock by certain selling stockholders for total gross proceeds of $142 million
- ORIX Corporation in its underwritten secondary offering of 3,750,000 shares of Ormat Technologies, Inc.’s common stock for total gross proceeds of $337.5 million
- Just Energy Group Inc., a Mississauga, Ontario-based leading retail consumer company specializing in electricity and natural gas commodities, energy efficiency solutions, and renewable energy options, in its Chapter 15 proceedings in the United States to recognize proceedings commenced in Canada under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA)
- Callon Petroleum Co. (NYSE: CPE) in its $600 million offering of 7.50% senior unsecured notes
- Blackstone on the $1.9 billion all-stock merger of Desert Peak Minerals and Falcon Minerals Corporation
- Stonepeak Partners LP in the formation of Levo Mobility LLC, a $750 million sustainable infrastructure joint venture with Nuvve Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: NVVE)
- Encino Acquisition Partners (EAP) on its inaugural 144A offering of $700 million in senior unsecured notes
- Glass Houses Acquisition Corp., a SPAC focused on businesses that provide critical resources and services to the technologies powering the 21st century industrial economy, in its initial public offering
- Peridot Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: PDAC) on its $1.67 billion combination agreement with Li-Cycle Corp.
- 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
- NorthRiver Midstream Finance LP in connection with its $525,000,000 initial Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of 5.625% senior secured notes due 2026
- 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
Prior to joining Kirkland, Atma was involved in the following transactions:
- Antero Midstream GP, Antero Midstream Partners and Antero Resources Corporation in the roll up of Antero Midstream Partners in a unit-for-cash and stock transaction
- CVR Energy in its $241 million purchase of the remaining outstanding units of CVR Refining, LP
- The initial purchasers in Vine Oil & Gas LP’s private offering of $380 million of 9.75% senior unsecured notes
- Outrigger Energy II LLC in its equity commitments from NGP Partners and Flatirons IV LLC
- Crestview Partners in its equity commitments to Silver Creek Oil & Gas
- Spectra Energy Partners in the private offering of $800 million of 3.5% and 4.15% senior unsecured notes of Texas Eastern Transmission LP
- The initial purchasers in Vine Oil & Gas LP’s private offering of $530 million of 8.75% senior unsecured notes
- Spectra Energy Partners in its at-the-market equity offering program
- Tyr Energy in its joint venture with Siemens and Kansai Electric Power Company for the $765 million construction of a 1,000 MW natural gas power plant
- Outrigger Energy in its sale of Outrigger Powder River Operating to Tallgrass Energy Partners
- Alon USA Energy in the $464 million acquisition by Delek US Holdings of the outstanding shares of Alon common stock
- Outrigger Energy in its sale of Outrigger Delaware Operating, Outrigger Southern Delaware Operating and Outrigger Midland Operating to Targa Resources Partners for up to $1.5 billion
- Memorial Resource Development in its $4.4 billion merger with Range Resources Corporation
- Antero Resources Corporation in its private offering of $600 million of 5.0% senior unsecured notes
- Antero Resources Corporation in its private offering of $175 million of common stock to an affiliate of Temasek Holdings
- Antero Midstream Partners in its private offering of $650 million of 5.375% senior unsecured notes
- Antero Resources Corporation in its $762 million offering of common stock to fund the acquisition of 55,000 net acres in the Marcellus Shale
- Antero Midstream Partners in a $179 million secondary offering of common units held by Antero Resources Corporation
- Eagle Rock Energy Partners in its $600 million merger with Vanguard Natural Resources
- Antero Resources Corporation in the $1.0 billion sale of its water treatment business to Antero Midstream Partners
- Antero Midstream Partners in its $243 million private offering of common units to fund its purchase of the water treatment business of Antero Resources Corporation
- Blue Racer Midstream in its private offering of $550 million of 6.125% senior notes
- QR Energy LP in its $3.0 billion merger with Breitburn Energy Partners
- Enbridge Energy Company in a $650 million joint venture with Marathon Petroleum to construct the Southern Access Extension Pipeline, a 167-mile pipeline that will transport crude oil from Enbridge’s Flanagan Terminal near Pontiac, Illinois, to an existing crude oil terminal near Patoka, Illinois
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2013Texas
Education
- University of Pennsylvania Carey Law SchoolJ.D.
- University of Texas at AustinB.B.A., Financewith High Honors
News &
Insights
Kirkland Advises Kodiak Gas Services on Offering of Common Stock by Selling Stockholder