Jordan D. Roberts, P.C.
Overview
Jordan Roberts is a partner in the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on private equity, financing transactions and debt restructurings. Jordan has extensive experience representing private equity funds, hedge funds, financial institutions and public and private issuers in a wide variety of financing transactions in both the United States and abroad, with a concentration on acquisition financing, investment grade lending, cash-flow based lending, asset-based lending (including reserve-based lending for oil and gas transactions), mezzanine financing and subordinated debt financing. In addition, Jordan is experienced in debtor-in-possession and exit financing and workouts and restructurings on behalf of both issuers and financial institutions. Jordan also regularly counsels clients on working capital arrangements, debt compliance matters and corporate governance matters as well as commodity, interest and f/x hedging arrangements.
Experience
Representative Matters
Savage in its acquisition of Texon, a midstream service provider of butane blending and energy marketing services.
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.
Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners in its structured investment in The Pasha Group, a leader in maritime transportation.
SCF Partners in its financing of its acquisition of Flowchem, Val-Tex and Sealweld from Entegris Inc.
Bernhard Capital Partners in its $1.2 billion acquisition of CenterPoint Energy, Inc.’s gas distribution business in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Braemont Capital in its acquisition of Loenbro, LLC, a provider of highly technical, specialized services to the data center, infrastructure and diversified industrial markets, from Tailwind Capital.
CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider of large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, in its $2.3 billion debt financing facility.
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.
Raisa Energy LLC in the issuance of $636 million of asset-backed securities secured by over 9,000 producing oil and gas wells across six states, as part of a master trust.
I Squared Capital in its financing of an acquisition of a majority interest in the Whistler Pipeline.
United Utility Services, a Bernhard Capital Partners portfolio company, in its financing of the acquisition of BHI Power Delivery, a specialty utility transmission and distribution services provider, from Westinghouse Electric Company.
W&T Offshore Inc. (NYSE: WTI) in the issuance of $275 million in aggregate principal amount of senior second lien notes.
Callon Petroleum Company (NYSE: CPE) in its revolving credit facility with $5.0 billion of maximum commitments, a $2.0 billion borrowing base and $1.5 billion of elected commitments.
Allied Industrial Partners LLC (AIP), in its strategic investment in Wall Recycling, LLC, a leading regional provider of solid waste hauling, disposal and recycling services.
H3 Minerals, LLC, an affiliate of Haymaker Minerals & Royalties III and portfolio company of Denham Capital, in a reserve-based revolving credit facility with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association entered into in connection with the acquisition of a large-scale diversified mineral portfolio in Texas, Louisiana, North Dakota, and Montana.
Producers Midstream LP in the $200 million refinancing of its credit facilities.
Constellation Brands (NYSE: STZ) in the refinancing, increase and extension of its $2.5 billion revolving credit facility and related amendment to its $491.25 million term loan facility.
Crescent Energy Company (NYSE: CRGY) in its $815 million all-cash acquisition of Uinta Basin assets from Verdun Oil Company II LLC.
KKR and Atlantic Aviation in its acquisition of the Lynx FBO Network.
KKR and Atlantic Aviation in the merger of Atlantic Aviation and Ross Aviation.
Archaea Energy Operating, LLC, a subsidiary of Archaea Energy, Inc. (NYSE: LFG), a SPAC focused on the energy transition sector, in the debt financing related to the closing of its business combination with both Aria Energy LLC (an Ares portfolio company) and Archaea Energy LLC (a Rice Investment Group portfolio company).
KKR in its $4.475 billion acquisition of the Atlantic Aviation business of Macquarie Infrastructure Corp.
Independence Energy Finance LLC, a portfolio company of KKR, in its internal reorganization of nearly all its domestic energy-related real property assets, including refinancing eight separate credit facilities with one $850 million reserve based lending credit facility and $500 million of senior notes.
Alta Resources in the $2.925 billion sale of its upstream and midstream subsidiaries for cash and public stock consideration to EQT Corp.
The Carlyle Group in the financing for the acquisition of a controlling interest in a marine terminal joint venture.
ECP in connection with the acquisition of Liberty Tire Recycling from The Carlyle Group.
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.
Callon Petroleum Company in its fully committed $5 billion first lien reserve-based financing in connection with its merger with Carrizo Oil & Gas and subsequent amendments to the same.
Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. in its prepackaged plan of reorganization to restructure $1.2 billion of funded debt obligations, including its $75 million in debtor-in-possession financing and first and second lien exit term loan credit facilities.
Gastar Exploration LLC, an affiliate of Ares Management Corporation, in its merger with Chisholm Oil and Gas LLC.
Kodiak Gas Services, LLC and The Stephens Group, LLC in the sale of Kodiak to EQT Infrastructure.
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.
KKR/Venado Oil and Gas, LLC in connection with the acquisition of Texas American Resources I, LLC’s assets in the Eagle Ford Shale.
KKR/Venado Oil & Gas, LLC in connection with the $765 million acquisition of Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation’s (NYSE: COG) developed and undeveloped oil and gas assets in the Eagle Ford Shale.
KKR/Venado Oil and Gas, LLC in connection with the $300 million acquisition of certain of EXCO Resources, Inc.’s (NYSE: XCO) producing and non-producing oil and natural gas properties in South Texas.
Development Capital Resources, LLC, an Ares Management, L.P. (Ares) portfolio company, in its $750 million investment for common and preferred equity in a joint venture with California Resources Corporation (CRC) to operate midstream infrastructure assets and related purchase by Ares in a private placement of $50 million of CRC common stock.
BCE-Mach LLC, a partnership between Mach Resources LLC, an oil and gas producer led by Tom Ward, and Bayou City Energy Management LLC in connection with the secured reserves-based financing for its acquisition of oil and gas assets across Oklahoma and Kansas.
Indigo Natural Resources LLC, in its consolidation with three affiliated operating entities under a common capital structure in connection with a $600 million reserve-based loan and private offering of $650 million of senior unsecured notes due 2026.
Bernhard Capital Partners in obtaining a syndicated facility to fund the acquisitions of construction and program management firms, Moreland Altobelli Associates, PaveTex Engineering and Engineering Testing Services as part of the Atlas Technical Consultants platform.
Apollo Management in its $100 million first lien credit facility extended to a privately-held exploration and production company with acreage and producing assets located in Oklahoma.
Indigo Haynesville on its purchase from Chesapeake Energy Corp. of acreage and producing properties in the Haynesville Shale for approximately $450 million and associated placement of second lien and equity financing with a syndicate of private equity firms.
Legacy Reserves in obtaining a $300 million second lien term loan facility from GSO Capital Partners and in obtaining an amendment from over two-thirds of lenders under its first lien reserve-based credit facility.
Sabine Oil & Gas in pre-Chapter 11 creditor negotiations representing ~$2.6 billion in funded debt, in its Chapter 11 cases in the Southern District of New York and in obtaining a reserve-based revolving credit facility and term loan facility upon its exit from Chapter 11.
Ad hoc committee of unsecured noteholders in the prepackaged Chapter 11 cases of Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc., in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, addressing its more than $1 billion in funded-debt obligations.
Alta Marcellus Development, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alta Resources Development, LLC, in connection with its $1.24 billion acquisition of operated and non-operated upstream assets and operated midstream assets in the Marcellus Shale of north-central Pennsylvania from Anadarko Petroleum Corp.
Alta Marcellus Development, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alta Resources Development, LLC, in connection with its $207 million acquisition of oil and gas assets in the Marcellus Shale of north-central Pennsylvania from Mitsui E&P USA LLC.
Tiger Rental Group, LLC, a subsidiary of The Modern Group, Ltd., focused on equipment rental and safety services in the oil and gas industry, in connection with a recapitalization consisting of a term loan provided by Orion Energy Partners, L.P., an asset based revolver agented by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and the associated corporate reorganization of Tiger Rental Group, LLC.
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2013Texas
Education
- University of Texas at Austin School of LawJ.D.with Honors2013
- University of California, Santa BarbaraM.A., Classics2010
- University of ConnecticutB.A., Classicsmagna cum laude2007