Sara E. Lampert

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Southwestern Energy Co. (NYSE: SWN) in its pending merger with Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NASDAQ: CHK) to create $24 billion combined company.
• Lux Vending LLC dba Bitcoin Depot® (NASDAQ: BTM) in its business combination with GSR II Meteora Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: GSRM).
• Pathfinder Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: PFDR) in its $537 million business combination with Movella (NASDAQ: MVLA), a fullstack provider of sensors, software, and analytics that enable the digitization of movement.
• Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE) in its $3.4 billion all-stock merger of equals with Maersk Drilling (CSE: DRLCO).
• Whiting Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: WLL) in its $6 billion merger of equals with Oasis Petroleum Inc. (NASDAQ: OAS).
• Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd. in its definitive merger agreement with Höegh LNG Partners LP (NYSE: HMLP) to acquire all of the outstanding publicly held common units of the partnership in a going private transaction.
• Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: SV) in its $1.9 billion merger with NuScale Power (NYSE: SMR), an industry-leading provider of small modular nuclear reactor technology.
• Penn Virginia Corp. (NASDAQ: PVAC) in its $370 million merger with Lonestar Resources US Inc. (OTCQX: LONE).
• AJAX I in its $7 billion business combination with Cazoo (NYSE: CZOO).
• Janus International Group, Inc. (NYSE: JBI) in its $1.9 billion business combination with Juniper Industrial Holdings (NYSE: JIH), a special purpose acquisition company.
• 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.
• PropTech Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: PTAC), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, in a $471.5 million business combination resulting in Porch.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRCH), a leading software and services platform for the home service industries, becoming publicly listed.
• Software Acquisition Group, Inc. in its $512 million reverse triangular merger with CuriosityStream Inc. (NASDAQ: CURI).
• LyondellBasell on definitive agreements with Sasol to form a 50/50 polyethylene joint venture through which LyondellBasell acquired 50 percent of select assets in Louisiana for a total consideration of $2 billion.

Equity Offerings

• Janus International Group, Inc. (NYSE: JBI) in the launch of its secondary at-the-market offering of 52 million shares of common stock by certain selling stockholders.
• Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ: SVIIU), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of Pearl Energy Investment Management, LLC and focusing on target businesses in the sustainability industry, in its $230 million initial public offering.
• Blackstone in its successful underwritten secondary offering of 8,050,000 shares of Altus Power, Inc. (NYSE: AMPS) common stock for a price of $92,575,000, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ overallotment option.
• Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: SV), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of Pearl Energy Investment Management, LLC and focusing on target businesses in the sustainability industry, in its $230 million initial public offering.

Debt Offerings and Related Transactions

• Noble Finance II LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Noble Corporation plc (NYSE: NE), in its 144A/Reg S offering of $600 million of senior unsecured notes.
• W&T Offshore Inc. (NYSE: WTI) in the issuance of $275 million in aggregate principal amount of senior second lien notes.
• Initial purchasers in the private offering of $1.6 billion 8.625% senior notes due 2030 by Weatherford International Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Weatherford International plc (NASDAQ: WFRD), and the concurrent tender offer to repurchase $1.6 billion of its outstanding senior notes.
• Railworks Holdings, LP and Railworks Rally, Inc. on their inaugural private offering of $325 million of 8.250% senior secured second lien notes due 2028 in connection with the acquisition of RailWorks Corporation.
• Underwriters in the private offering of $500 million 6.500% senior secured first lien notes due 2028 by Weatherford International Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Weatherford International plc (NASDAQ: WFRD).
• NorthRiver Midstream Finance LP in connection with its $525 million initial Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of 5.625% senior secured notes due 2026.

Restructuring Transactions

• FTS International, Inc. and its affiliates in their prepackaged Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. FTSI, a publicly-traded company, is one of the largest providers of hydraulic fracturing services in North America and provides customized hydraulic fracturing solutions to exploration and production companies to enhance recovery rates from oil and gas wells drilled in the most active basins in the United States. FTSI commenced its Chapter 11 cases with a restructuring support agreement with over 87% of the holders of the company’s funded secured debt. If the company’s prepackaged Chapter 11 plan is approved, holders of approximately $440 million of funded secured debt will exchange their debt claims for over 90% of the equity in the reorganized debtors, holders of FTSI’s existing equity will receive approximately 10% of the equity in the reorganized debtors, and all ongoing business trade claims will ride through the bankruptcy unimpaired.
• Yellow Corporation and certain of its subsidiaries (“Yellow”) in their Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. With its family of brands, including YRC, Reddaway, Holland and Yellow Logistics, Yellow was a storied trucking and logistics company with a 100-year history and one of the largest less-than-truckload networks in North America. Yellow entered Chapter 11 with approximately $1.2 billion in prepetition funded debt. Yellow secured a $1.525 billion stalking horse bidder for its owned real estate assets and, through its Chapter 11 cases, will conduct a marketing and sale process for some or all of its real estate and rolling stock assets, followed by an orderly liquidation of any remaining assets.

Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis, 2019

Senior Financial Analyst, Postlethwaite & Netterville, APAC, 2015–2017

Corporate Finance Specialist, Unitech Training Academy, 2014–2015