Scott Delaney
Partner
Scott focuses his practice on corporate transactions for public and private companies, as well as private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, with a particular emphasis on the energy sector.
Key Matters
Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.
- Cresta Fund Management and LF Bioenergy in a joint venture with Marathon Petroleum to develop, own, and operate renewable natural gas production facilities
- Ozona CCS in its joint venture to develop carbon capture, usage, and storage facilities
- Chisholm Oil and Gas Operating LLC in the US$480M exchange of debt for equity, as part of a plan of reorganization under chapter 11
- Basic Energy Services, Inc. in its acquisition of C&J Well Services and subsequently in connection with its chapter 11 cases and sale of substantially all its assets in three transactions to Ranger Energy Services, Inc., Berry Corp., and Axis Energy Services
- Gavilan Resources, LLC and its affiliated debtors in their chapter 11 cases and in its 363-bankruptcy sale of substantially all of its assets to Mesquite Energy, Inc. (f/k/a Sanchez Energy Corporation)
- Guggenheim Securities in connection with the first 144A oil and gas securitization
- Guggenheim Securities in connection with the first-ever rated term securitization for a nationally known oil and gas company
- Guggenheim Securities in connection with the inaugural offering by an affiliate of Jonah Energy LLC (Jonah), a leading sustainable natural gas producers in the United States, of US$750M fully amortizing notes backed by a portion of Jonah's upstream producing assets
- Guggenheim Securities in connection with Pure West Energy, LLC's (PureWest) securitization of $US365M of notes backed by PureWest's upstream producing assets. The offering was comprised of a combination of US$210M of 144A Class A1 Notes and US$155M of Class A2 Notes offered and sold as a 4(a)(2) private placement.
- Fieldwood Energy LLC (a portfolio company of Riverstone) in its US$1B sale of all deepwater assets and certain shallow water and other assets to QuarterNorth Energy Holding, Inc., in connection with Fieldwood’s chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in its acquisition of an undivided 55% interest in certain mineral fee interests, non-participating royalty interests and overriding royalty interests in Loving County, Texas held by Santa Elena Minerals, LP (a portfolio company of EnCap Investments)
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in various equity investments in upstream and midstream oil and gas companies and acquisitions of oil and gas assets
- Cresta Fund Management in its acquisition of a provider of renewable natural gas and waste management solutions for the agricultural sector and the formation of a joint venture to develop, own and operate renewable natural gas production facilities
- TPG in its preferred equity investment of up to US$140M to fund capital contributions to Double E Pipeline LLC, a joint venture between Summit Midstream Partners LP and Exxon Mobil Corporation, to construct a FERC-regulated interstate natural gas pipeline of the Delaware Basin
- Magnetar Capital in its up to US$250M preferred equity investment in WaterBridge Holdings, as part of an equity capital raise involving Five Point Energy, an affiliate of GIC and WaterBridge management to fund strategic acquisitions of water infrastructure from Primexx Energy Partners, Tall City Exploration III, and Jetta Permian
- Mettle Midstream in the formation of a joint venture with an undisclosed producer to construct and develop an oil and gas gathering system and associate midstream infrastructure in the Powder River Basin
- Publicly-traded E&P company in its US$300M joint venture with an undisclosed private equity sponsor to fund drilling and completion-related capital expenditures with respect to non-operated properties in the Permian Basin
- Publicly-traded E&P company in its US$500M joint venture with an undisclosed private equity sponsor to acquire minerals in the Permian Basin
- Aethon Energy in its US$735M acquisition of the northwest Louisiana natural gas assets from QEP Resources, Inc.
- Easton Energy LLC (a portfolio company of Cresta Energy Capital) in its acquisition of 416 miles of Gulf Coast natural gas liquids pipeline systems assets from The Williams Companies, Inc.
- Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC in its US$4.6B sale of substantially all its global business to Brookfield Business Partners L.P
- Old Ironsides Energy in the US$1.75B sale of three Delaware Basin subsidiary companies of Brazos Midstream Holdings, LLC to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure
- Fieldwood Energy LLC (a portfolio company of Riverstone) in its US$710M purchase of all Gulf of Mexico deepwater oil and gas assets of Noble Energy, Inc.
- Stonegate Production Company LLC in its sale of certain operated oil and gas assets
- Kainos Capital in various acquisition and divestitures of manufacturers and distributors of consumer products
- A private equity sponsor in a merger of its digital marketing agency portfolio company with a publicly-traded strategic buyer
- Members of a technology start-up in the sale of a majority of their membership interests to a publicly-traded strategic buyer
- A pharmaceutical manufacturer in the sale of substantially all of its assets to an internationally, publicy-traded strategic buyer
- A subsidiary of a prominent Indian Nation in various acquisitions and divestitures of equity interests and assets related to manufacturing and oil and gas operations
- A publicly-traded oil and gas services company in its sale of all of the membership interests of an oilfield services subsidiary to an international, publicly-traded transportation company