Anthony Sanderson
Overview
Anthony Sanderson is a capital markets partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP based in Washington, D.C., and Houston. He provides strategic counsel and sophisticated corporate finance solutions across a wide range of capital markets transactions. He focuses on advising private equity funds, public companies and investment banks on leveraged finance transactions, IPOs and M&A financings, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Anthony’s experience spans complex debt and equity capital markets transactions, including high-yield, investment-grade and convertible debt offerings, liability management exercises and common and preferred equity offerings. Drawing on his international financing experience in London and operational insights from The Boeing Company, Anthony offers a unique, globally informed perspective to help clients navigate complex financial challenges and achieve success.
Experience
Representative Matters
High-Yield & Other Debt Offerings
- Initial purchasers to Blue Owl Credit Income Corp. in its $400 million offering of senior notes
- Summit Midstream Corporation (NYSE: SMC) in its $250 million offering of senior secured second lien notes
- Underwriters to Golub Capital BDC, Inc. (NASDAQ: GBDC) in its $150 million offering of senior notes
- Underwriters to Blue Owl Capital Corporation (NYSE: OBDC) in its $400 million offering of senior notes
- Underwriters to Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) in its $172 million offering of floating rate notes
- Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP) in its $575 million offering of senior secured second lien notes and the concurrent tender offer for certain of its outstanding notes
- Civitas Resources, Inc. (NYSE: CIVI) in its $2.7 billion offering of senior notes
- Railworks Holdings, LP and Railworks Rally, Inc. on their inaugural offering of $325 million of senior secured second lien notes to finance the acquisition of RailWorks Corporation
- Initial purchasers to Weatherford International plc (NASDAQ: WFRD) in its $2.1 billion offering of senior secured first lien notes and senior notes and the concurrent tender offer to repurchase certain of its outstanding notes
- Strathcona Resources Ltd. in its inaugural $500 million offering of senior notes
- Empark, a Macquarie portfolio company, in its €575 million offering of senior secured notes and €100 million super senior revolving credit facility*
- Initial purchasers to Altice International in its $3 billion offering of senior secured notes*
- Initial purchasers to Vine Energy Inc. (NYSE: VEI), a Blackstone portfolio company, in its $950 million offering of senior notes*
- Initial purchasers to New Fortress Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NFE) in its $1.5 billion offering of senior notes and its $200 million revolving credit facility to finance the acquisition of Hygo Energy Transition Ltd. and Golar LNG Partners LP*
- Oasis Midstream Partners LP (NASDAQ: OMP) in its inaugural $450 million offering of senior notes*
- Initial purchasers to Aethon United in its inaugural $750 million offering of senior notes*
- Underwriters to Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE: SWN) in its $350 million offering of senior notes*
- First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX: FQM) in its $750 million offering of senior notes*
- Initial purchasers to Ithaca Energy in its $500 million offering of senior notes to finance the $2 billion acquisition of Chevron North Sea Limited*
- Initial purchasers to Neptune Energy, a Carlyle, CVC and the China Investment Corporation (CIC) portfolio company, in its $300 million offering of senior notes*
- First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX: FQM) in its $1.85 billion offering of senior notes*
IPOs & Equity Offerings
- Talen Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: TLN) in its initial listing on the NASDAQ Global Select Market
- Underwriters to Vine Energy Inc. (NYSE: VEI), a Blackstone portfolio company, in its $346 million initial public offering of Class A common stock*
- Summit Midstream Corporation (NYSE: SMC) on its reorganization from a master limited partnership to a corporation
- Ramaco Resources, Inc. (NASDAQ: METC, METCB) in its offering of 9.4 million shares of “tracking stock” as Class B common stock and reclassification of its existing common stock as Class A common stock
- Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE: SWN) and selling stockholders in the connection with an $328 million underwritten secondary offering
- Underwriters to Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE: SWN) in its $158 million offering of common stock*
Mergers & Acquisitions
- Constellation Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: CEG) in its $26.6 billion acquisition of Calpine Corp.
- Gogo Inc. (NASDAQ: GOGO) in its $416 million acquisition of Satcom Direct
- SM Energy Company (NYSE: SM) in its $2.55 billion acquisition of Uinta Basin assets from XCL Resources, LLC, and Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) in its concurrent $510 million acquisition of an undivided 20% stake of the oil and gas assets of XCL Resources, LLC
- Oaktree Capital Management in its $420 million acquisition of Ambac Assurance Corporation, the financial guarantee business of Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: AMBC)
- GTCR in its $2.7 billion acquisition of AssetMark Financial Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AMK)
- Southwestern Energy Co. (NYSE: SWN) in its merger with Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NASDAQ: CHK) to create a $24 billion combined company
- TG Natural Resources LLC in its $2.7 billion acquisition of Rockcliff Energy II LLC
- Civitas Resources, Inc. (NYSE: CIVI) in its $2.45 billion acquisition of oil producing assets in the Delaware Basin from Tap Rock Resources, a portfolio company of NGP Energy Capital Management
- Inmarsat and its controlling consortium on the $7.3 billion combination with Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT)
- 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
- 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
- Mas CanAm LLC in its $355 million sale of three renewable natural gas landfill assets to Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI)
- Indigo Natural Resources LLC in its $2.7 billion merger with Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE: SWN)
- KKR in its investment in OutSystems as part of a $360 million investment round (together with Goldman Sachs)*
Restructurings & Liability Management Transactions
- Oaktree Capital Management in its $160 million senior secured debt facility to B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY), including related warrants
- Unsecured creditor group of Talen Energy Corporation in connection with its Chapter 11 reorganization and $1.4 billion recapitalization led by the unsecured creditor group, which emerged as the new majority equity owners of the reorganized company
- Team, Inc. (NYSE: TISI) in its financing restructuring efforts and strategic review of its capital structure, including related warrants
- Jonah Energy LLC in connection with its out-of-court restructuring, which deleveraged its balance sheet by approximately $580 million, and entry into an amended and restated credit facility with an initial borrowing base of $750 million*
*Denotes experience prior to joining Kirkland.
Prior Experience
Vinson & Elkins LLP, Houston & London
Sidley Austin LLP, London
Business Career Foundation Program, The Boeing Company, Seattle
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- District of Columbia
- New York
- Texas
Education
- King's College LondonLL.B.2016
Dickson Poon Scholar
President, King's College London Law Society
- Duke UniversityB.A., Public Policy
with Distinction, magna cum laude
2011Phi Beta Kappa
Benjamin N. Duke Scholar