R.J. Malenfant

R.J.’s representative matters have included:

• Apex Energy II, LLC in its $505 million sale of its Appalachian Basin natural gas upstream and associated midstream business to CNX Resources Corporation (NYSE: CNX).
• Crescent Energy Company (NYSE: CRGY) in its $905 million acquisition of Central Eagle Ford assets from Ridgemar Energy.
• Riley Exploration Permian, Inc. (NYSE: REPX) in the expansion of its joint venture with Conduit Power, LLC to build new power generation and storage assets for the sale of energy and ancillary services to ERCOT.
• Beacon Offshore Energy in its divestiture of its non-operated interests in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to GOM 1 Holdings, Inc., an affiliate of O.G. Oil & Gas Limited.
• W&T Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: WTI), a leading independent oil and natural gas producer with operations offshore in the Gulf of Mexico in its successful acquisition of six fields in shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico from the Chapter 11 estates of Cox Operating, LLC. The six fields acquired each include a 100% working interest and an average 82% net revenue interest. The section 363 sale was approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
• Civitas Resources in its $2.45 billion definitive agreement to acquire oil producing assets in the Delaware Basin from Tap Rock Resources, a portfolio company of NGP Energy Capital Management.
• Ovintiv Inc. (NYSE: OVV) in its $4.275 billion acquisition of all leasehold interest and related assets of Black Swan Oil & Gas, PetroLegacy Energy and Piedra Resources, and the concurrent $825 million sale of its Bakken assets.
• IOG Resources II LLC in its acquisition of Appalachia Basin non-operated oil & gas assets.
• A private company in the issuance of over $200 million of asset-backed securities secured by operated producing oil and gas wells.
• Riley Exploration Permian, Inc. (NYSE: REPX) in its joint venture with Conduit Power, LLC to use gas from oilfield production in the Permian Basin to generate electrical power.
• Riley Exploration Permian, Inc. (NYSE: REPX) in its $330 million acquisition of oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin from Pecos Oil & Gas, LLC.
• Hatch Royalty LLC in Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP's (NYSE: KRP) approximately $290 million purchase of its mineral and royalty interests located in the Permian Basin.
• Red Bluff Resources and Bricktown Energy, portfolio companies of HPS Investment Partners in the sale of substantially all of their oil and gas properties to Citizen Energy.  
• APR Operating LLC in its sale of oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin to Petro-Hunt LLC. 
• IOG Resources LLC in its acquisition of Delaware Basin producing oil and gas assets from Tier 1 Merced Holdings LLC. 
• Diversified Energy Company (LSE:DEC) in the closing of a sustainability-linked asset backed securitization (ABS) of certain Barnett Shale assets in North Texas. 
• Civitas Resources Inc. (NYSE: CIVI) in its $346 million acquisition of Bison Oil & Gas II LLC. 
• Warwick Investment Group in its $450 million acquisition of operated oil and gas assets in Texas's Eagle Ford Shale from Rosewood Resources and related drilling commitments.
• Fortress Investment Group LLC in the acquisition of Colony Capital’s positions in approximately $2.7 billion of non-digital energy and real estate assets. 
• Pickering Energy Partners in its partnership with a private operator in the Midland Basin.
• Indigo Minerals LLC in its $135 million sale of certain Cotton Valley upstream oil and gas assets and related facilities located primarily in the state of Louisiana to Diversified Gas & Oil plc. 
• ACON S2 Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: STWO), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company on its business combination with ESS Tech, Inc., a manufacturer of long-duration iron flow batteries for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications. 
• Denbury Inc. (NYSE: DEN) on the restructuring of its long-standing CO2 pipeline arrangements with Genesis Energy, L.P. (NYSE: GEL).
• 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.
• Raisa Energy LLC in a first of its kind transaction involving Raisa’s issuance of asset-backed securities secured by producing oil and gas wells.
• Riviera Resources, Inc. in the sales of certain (1) oil and gas assets and gas processing facilities in the Hugoton Gas Field in Kansas for $295 million, and (2) Michigan properties for approximately $44.5 million. 
• Wing Resources LLC and Wing Resources II LLC, portfolio companies of Natural Gas Partners in the sale of Midland Basin oil and gas mineral interests to Alliance Resource Partners L.P.
• Ensign Natural Resources LLC/Warburg Pincus in its acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc.’s (NYSE:PXD) Eagle Ford Shale assets, including approximately 59,000 net acres and 14,400 net boepd.
• Harvest Oil & Gas Corp. in the sales of certain (1) South Texas assets for approximately $132 million in cash and 4.2 million shares of newly-issued stock to Magnolia Oil & Gas (NYSE:MGY), (2) Barnett Shale assets for $72 million, (3) New Mexico and Colorado assets for $37.2 million to a private oil and gas company, and (4) Mid-Continent assets to a private oil and gas company.
• Private oil and gas operator in the formation of drilling partnership to develop up to 44 wells in the Permian Basin with a private oil and gas investment entity.
• Cobalt International Energy in the following sales of oil and gas assets as part of its ongoing Chapter 11 proceeding in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas: (i) sale of assets located in the Gulf of Mexico to Total E&P USA, Inc. and Statoil Gulf of Mexico LLC for $339 million; (ii) sale of assets located in the Gulf of Mexico to Total E&P USA, Inc. for $181 million; (iii) sale of assets located in the Gulf of Mexico to W&T Offshore, Inc. for $31 million; and (iv) sale of assets located in the Gulf of Mexico to Total E&P USA, Inc. for $25 million.
• Private equity backed oil and gas company in the formation of $195 million drilling partnership to develop domestic unconventional resources in the Utica Shale with a private oil and gas company.
• LINN Energy, Inc. in the following divestures of oil and gas assets: (1) $122 million sale of its interest in waterflood properties in Oklahoma and properties in the Texas Panhandle to an undisclosed buyer; (2) $119.5 million sale of its interest in conventional properties located in the Permian Basin, Texas, to an undisclosed buyer; (3) $100 million sale of its interest in properties located in the Brea-Olinda Field in California to Bridge Energy LLC; and (4) $71.5 million sale of its interest in properties located in the Salt Creek Field in Wyoming to Denbury Resources Inc.
• KKR/Venado Oil and Gas, LLC in its $300 million acquisition of certain of EXCO Resources, Inc.’s (NYSE: XCO) producing and non-producing oil and natural gas properties in South Texas.

Prior to joining Kirkland, R.J.’s representative matters included:

• Independent Oil and Gas Company — Divestiture of $385 million of assets in the Anadarko Basin.
• Independent Oil and Gas Company — Sale of interest in midstream oil and gas company.
• International Oil and Gas Company — Divestiture of downstream oil and gas assets in Latin America.
• Independent Energy Company — Acquisition of solar energy project in Latin America.
• Independent Energy Company — Project financing of energy infrastructure assets in Latin America.

Baker Botts LLP, Associate