Energy & Infrastructure Private Equity

Akin’s energy & infrastructure private equity practice represents a wide range of global clients on sophisticated transactions. With market-leading private equity and transactional capabilities combined with a top-tier energy platform, we work with many of the market’s most active energy & infrastructure investors.

We have significant experience representing private equity sponsors, portfolio companies and corporates across the energy value chain and covering the full spectrum of infrastructure assets. This includes advising on financing and developing projects, investments in cutting-edge renewable energies and energy transition technologies, and working with oil & gas companies in bringing energy sources to market around the world.

Leader in PE and Energy & Infrastructure

Akin is an established leader in private equity and energy & infrastructure. We draw on eight decades of experience in the traditional hydrocarbon, energy transition and infrastructure sectors.

By providing integrated fund formation, transactional, tax and regulatory advice, we help energy-focused PE firms and management teams, portfolio companies and other investors capitalize on opportunities at every stage.

Multidisciplinary Team

Our multidisciplinary team includes private equity and private credit, mergers & acquisitions (M&A), finance, projects & energy transition, capital markets, environment & natural resources, financial restructuring, regulatory & compliance, lobbying & public policy, tax and disputes lawyers focused on the energy & infrastructure sector.

Our energy & infrastructure PE lawyers have experience across the full spectrum of PE transactions and at all levels of the capital structure, including in the following areas, among others:

Lifecycle services, including formation, capitalization, acquisitions, sales and management
Highly complex and innovative deals, including M&A, joint ventures and structured financings
Deal structuring—from leveraged buyouts to carve-outs, roll-ups and liquidity events
Advice to investors on the impact of energy & environmental regulations
Financial restructurings and bankruptcies
Regulatory & compliance, including CFIUS
Counsel on innovative, tax-efficient structures
Time-sensitive due diligence.

Our experience also encompasses the full energy value chain, including:

Representative Matters

Advised LetterOne on an agreement to transfer the majority of Wintershall Dea’s non-Russia related upstream business to London-listed Harbour Energy plc, the U.K.’s largest oil & gas producer, for a total consideration of $11.2 billion.
Represented Excelsior Energy Capital in the acquisition of and $1.3 billion financing package for the 682.5-megawatt (MW) Faraday Solar project in Utah County, Utah.
Advised Saxum Energy Partners, a private partnership focused on the acquisition of oil & natural gas minerals, in the final closing of its inaugural partnership, Saxum Energy I LP at its hard cap of $435 million of equity commitments.

Advised Double Eagle Energy in its strategic partnership with EnCap Investments LP to form Double Eagle Energy Holdings IV and another new investment vehicle, oil & gas investment entities with over $1.7 billion of equity committed.

Advised Helios Investment Partners on the completion of the sale of Solevo, a leading African distributor of specialty chemicals, to Development Partners International (DPI), and on its majority investment in IXAfrica Data Centre Limited, a leading developer and operator of hyperscale-ready data centers in Kenya.
Advised an environmental impact-focused private equity firm on the formation, structuring and negotiation of its second energy fund.
Counseled funds managed by Yorktown Partners LLC in connection with the $2.7 billion merger of Indigo Natural Resources LLC, a Yorktown portfolio company, with Southwestern Energy Company.
Advised a multibillion-dollar asset management firm in connection with the formation, structuring and negotiation of its third natural resources fund.
Advised Edge Natural Resources in the sale of Burnham RNG, a full-service developer and owner of organic waste management and anaerobic digestion biogas assets, to a fund managed by Ares Management.

Advising Carlyle on Discover Exploration’s acquisition of exploration, appraisal and development assets offshore the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark and various transactions involving COG Energy.

Counseled Alchemist Energy Holdings in connection with a $150 million reserved based lending facility, with an initial borrowing base of $35 million, provided by BOKF, NA, as agent and lead arranger.
Advised an investment company specializing in energy transition and decarbonization on the formation, structuring and negotiation of its second renewable energy fund.