Jacob Volz

Partner Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

Houston +1 713 836 3397

Jacob Volz

Practices

Overview

Jacob Volz is a corporate partner in the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on representing private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies and other public and private companies in strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financial sponsor-management team partnerships and private equity investments.

Transition Equity Partners, in its $54 million investment in Heliene Partners, a provider of solar PV modules

Talen Energy in its acquisition of TeraWulf Inc.’s equity interest in Nautilus Cryptomine, a 200-MW nuclear-powered bitcoin mining facility in Berwick, Pennsylvania

Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in its approximately $1 billion investment in a portfolio of wind and solar projects with NextEra Energy Resources

Energy Impact Partners in its partnership with OceanSound Partners to acquire Message Broadcast, a provider of customer engagement software for the electric utility industry

Talen Energy in the $650 million sale of its nuclear-powered Cumulus data center campus to Amazon Web Services

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • Texas

Education

  • Northwestern Pritzker School of LawJ.D.2018
  • The City College of the City University of New YorkB.A., Historysumma cum laude2014