Rodney L. Moore
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Rodney has over 35 years of experience representing public and private companies, private equity firms, and management teams in transactions and other corporate matters, primarily in the energy and infrastructure space.
Key Matters
Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.
Abro Holdings
- Establishment of platform company to develop hydrogen fuel technology and hydrogen fuel production facilities, and licensing of hydrogen fuel technology
Aethon Energy
- Acquisition of northwest Louisiana natural gas assets from QEP Resources, Inc.
- Together with RedBird Capital Partners, in the acquisition of natural gas-producing assets in east Texas and northern Louisiana from SM Energy Company
- Together with RedBird Capital Partners, in its acquisition of the Moneta Divide oil and gas assets, approximately 188,000 net acres in Wyoming, from Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.
Basic Energy Services, Inc.
- Acquisition of C&J Well Services and subsequently in connection with its Chapter 11 cases and sale of substantially all of its assets
BlackBrush Oil & Gas LP
- Multiple acquisitions and dispositions of upstream oil and gas assets in the Eagle Ford Shale
- Upstream joint venture in the Eagle Ford Shale
- Sale of BlackBrush Oil & Gas to Ares Management, L.P.
BreitBurn Energy Partners LP
- Sale of certain of its upstream assets to Birch Permian Holdings, Inc. and its sale of the remainder of its assets to Maverick Natural Resources LLC, via a Chapter 11 reorganization
Cold Creek Solutions, Inc.
- Joint venture to develop a cold storage facility in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
- Joint venture to develop a cold storage facility in the San Antonio, TX area
Cresta Fund Management
- Joint Venture with Marathon Petroleum to develop, own, and operate renewable natural gas production facilities
- 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
Discovery Midstream Partners (the ownership vehicle for management)
- And other selling owners of Discovery DJ Services LLC, a joint venture of Old Ironsides Energy and Ward Energy Partners, in the sale of Discovery DJ Services to TPG Capital and rollover of a portion of management’s equity
Easton Energy LLC
- Acquisition of the Gulf Coast natural gas liquids pipeline systems assets from The Williams Companies, Inc.
EIG Global Energy Partners
- Sale of upstream assets by CHK Cleveland Tonkawa, LLC, to FourPoint Energy and related redemption of preferred equity by CHK Cleveland Tonkawa, LLC (together with GSO Capital Partners, Magnetar Capital, and TPG Capital)
- Restructuring/exchange of debt for equity in an offshore exploration and production company
- Restructuring of debt and capital structure at portfolio company holding upstream assets
- Preferred equity investment in CrownRock Holdings, L.P. (together with Magnetar Capital)
EXCO Resources
- Acquisition of upstream assets in Texas and Louisiana
Fieldwood Energy LLC
- Prepackaged Chapter 11 cases pursuant to which Fieldwood deleveraged its balance sheet, raised additional equity in in an equity rights offering, and purchased all Gulf of Mexico deepwater oil and gas assets of Noble Energy, Inc. and its related sale of all deepwater assets and certain shallow water and other assets to Quarter North Energy Holding, Inc.
Gavilan Resources LLC
- 363 bankruptcy sale of substantially all of its assets to Mesquite Energy, Inc. (f/k/a Sanchez Energy Corporation)
GSO Capital Partners (n/k/a Blackstone Credit)
- Sale of upstream assets by CHK Cleveland Tonkawa, LLC, to Four Point Energy and related redemption of preferred equity by CHK Cleveland Tonkawa, LLC (together with Magnetar Capital, EIG Global Energy Partners, and TPG Capital)
- Co-investment in preferred securities in Plains E&P GOM development project
Guggenheim Securities
- In connection with the first 144A oil and gas securitization
- In connection with the first-ever rated term securitization for a nationally known oil and gas company
- 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
- 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.
HM Capital
- Establishment of multiple platform energy companies
- Multiple upstream and midstream acquisition and divestiture transactions
- Equity Investment in Triton Energy
- Acquisition/divestiture of Regency Energy Partners
- Sale of interest in upstream joint venture
- Upstream and midstream joint venture in Eagle Ford Shale
Kinder Morgan
- Disposition of upstream assets of El Paso
Kingfisher Midstream, LLC and its subsidiaries
- 363 bankruptcy sale of midstream assets to BCE-Mach III LLC in connection with their Chapter 11 cases, which are jointly administered with the Chapter 11 cases of Alta Mesa Resources, Inc. and its subsidiaries
Magnetar Capital
- As a member of an investment group, in the group's purchase of preferred shares of CHK Utica LLC, a newly formed unrestricted, non-guarantor consolidated subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy Corporation which was formed to own and develop oil and gas producing assets in the Utica Shale, plus an overriding royalty interest in the first 1,500 (net ORRI) new wells to be drilled on the leasehold acreage contributed by Chesapeake as part of the transaction
- As a member of an investment group, in the group's purchase of preferred shares of CHK Cleveland Tonkawa LLC, a newly formed unrestricted, non-guarantor consolidated subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy Corporation which was formed to own and develop oil and gas producing assets, plus an overriding royalty interest in the first 1,000 (net ORRI) new wells to be drilled on the leasehold acreage contributed by Chesapeake as part of the transaction
- Sale of upstream assets by CHK Cleveland Tonkawa, LLC, to Four Point Energy and related redemption of preferred equity by CHK Cleveland Tonkawa, LLC (together with GSO Capital Partners, EIG Global Energy Partners, and TPG Capital)
- Minority investment of equity and delayed draw unsecured debt capital in Double Eagle Energy Permian Operating LLC, to support additional Midland Basin acquisition opportunities for Double Eagle and to accelerate its drilling program
- In its capacity as a holder of preferred equity in connection with the merger of Energy Transfer Partners and Regency Energy Partners
- In its capacity as a holder of preferred equity in connection with the merger of Crestwood Equity Partners and Crestwood Midstream Partners
- Sale of preferred shares of CHK Utica (together with GSO/Blackstone and EIG Global Energy Partners)
- Preferred equity investment in Crown Rock Holdings, L.P. (together with EIG Global Energy Partners)
- Preferred stock investment, alongside KKR's Energy Income & Growth Fund, in Covey Park Energy LLC to partially finance Covey Park's acquisition of certain upstream assets from Chesapeake Exploration, LLC
- Preferred equity investment in Lucid Energy Group, LLC
- Co-investment in of preferred equity securities in Plains E&P GOM development project
Old Ironsides Energy
- Sale of three Delaware Basin subsidiary companies of Brazos Midstream Holdings, LLC to Morgan Stanley Infrastructure
- Investment in Carbon Appalachian Company, LLC (CAC); CAC's acquisition of certain assets of CNX Gas Company; and a subsidiary of CAC's agreement with Nytis Exploration Company LLC, to acquire and develop certain upstream oil and gas assets
- Internal restructuring of a portfolio company, Calyx Energy III LLC to set up a midstream platform within an existing upstream structure and to develop midstream assets
- Investment in Confluence Resources Holdings LP, a joint venture with NGP XI US Holdings, L.P., State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, and Wells Fargo Central Pacific Holdings, Inc. to acquire and develop upstream oil and gas assets
- Joint development agreement with Rubicon Oil & Gas, Inc. and Boyd & McWilliams Energy Group, Inc. to fund the acquisition and development of upstream assets in the Permian Basin
- Investment in Gary Permian, LLC, a joint venture with Gary Petroleum Partners, LLC to acquire and develop upstream assets in the Permian Basin
Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan
- 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)
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Acquisition of overriding royalty interests in Appalachia from public E&P company
- Equity investment in FireBird Energy LLC and FireBird's acquisition of upstream assets in the Midland Basin in Texas from El Dorado Resources, LLC
Ozona CCS
- Joint Venture to develop carbon capture, usage, and storage facilities
Pioneer Natural Resources
- Joint Development Agreement for the development of upstream assets and construction of related midstream system
Private Equity Firm
- Acquisition of a 1% overriding royalty interest in certain oil and gas leases and wells in southwestern Pennsylvania from Range Resources-Appalachia, LLC and Range Resources-Pine Mountain, Inc., subsidiaries of Range Resources Corporation
- Acquisition of a 0.5% overriding royalty interest in certain oil and gas leases and wells in southwestern Pennsylvania from Range Resources-Appalachia, LLC and Range Resources-Pine Mountain, Inc., subsidiaries of Range Resources Corporation
Regency Energy Partners
- Acquisition of TexStar Field Services
- Acquisition of Nexus Gas Holdings
- Acquisition of Pueblo Midstream
- Acquisition of FrontStreet Hugoton
- Acquisition of Zephyr Gas Services
Wildcat Midstream Partners
- Joint venture with Approach Resources for the construction and operation of a crude oil pipeline
- Sale of its crude oil joint venture, Wildcat Permian Services, to an affiliate of JP Energy Development LP
- Midstream joint venture with High Star Capital
- Midstream joint venture with Liberty Energy
Lindsay Goldberg
- Joint venture to acquire and develop upstream assets in the Woodford Shale from Chesapeake Energy
- Acquisition of upstream assets in Bakken
- Acquisition of overriding royalty interests in Bakken
Tailwater Capital
- Midstream joint venture in Eagle Ford Shale
- Sale of midstream assets (crude oil pipeline system) in the Eagle Ford Shale
- Sale of a crude oil pipeline, gathering and storage assets, and natural gas liquids assets in South Texas to NuStar Logistics, L.P.
- Construction of an Olefins/off-gas processing facility
- Combination with Southcross Energy Partners LP to form Southcross Holdings LP, an Eagle Ford-focused midstream operation with equity interests in the TexStar and Southcross Energy Assets
Special Committee on the Board of Directors of McMoRan Exploration Company (MMR)
- Sale of MMR to Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. as part of a three-way merger with Freeport-McMoRan and Plains Exploration & Production Company.
Warwick Energy Group
- Acquisition of R/C Sugarkane LLC, an upstream oil and gas company with producing interests in South Texas' Eagle Ford Shale, from Riverstone Holdings LLC
Special Committee on the Board of Directors of Continental Resources, Inc.
- Acquisition of the oil assets of Wheatland Oil, Inc., adding to its holdings in the Bakken shale field of North Dakota and Montana
Southcross Holdings LP
- Preferred equity commitment from Energy Capital Partners Mezzanine Opportunities Fund and GE Energy Financial Services, the proceeds of which will be used for the acquisition and development of natural gas gathering, processing, treating, compression, and transportation facilities in the Eagle Ford shale region of South Texas
Stonegate Production Company LLC
- Sale of certain non-operated oil and gas assets to Stonehold Energy Corporation
- Sale of certain operated oil and gas assets to an unidentified private, independent oil and gas exploration, production, and development company.
WPX Energy
- Acquisition of RKI Exploration & Production, LLC
- Acquisition of certain oil and gas assets in the Delaware Basin in Texas from Panther Energy Company II, LLC, and CP2 Operating, LLC
EnLink Midstream partners, LP and EnLink Midstream LLC
- Acquisition of subsidiaries of Tall Oak Midstream LLC
Zedd Energy Holdco Ltd. (a portfolio company of Harbour Energy)
- Acquisition of certain offshore Peruvian oil and gas assets pursuant to a 363 bankruptcy sale from BPZ Resources, Inc.
The Management Team of Admiral Permian Resources, LLC
- Joint venture with Pine Brook Road Partners and Riverstone Holdings under which Pine Brook and Riverstone will provide a line of equity to purchase and develop upstream assets in the Permian Basin
The Management Team of Navigator Energy Services
- Joint venture with First Reserve to further develop and operate Big Spring Gateway System
Endeavour International Corporation
- Sale of its North American assets to various purchasers pursuant to a 363 bankruptcy sale
TPG Capital
- Sale of upstream assets by CHK Cleveland Tonkawa, LLC, to Four Point Energy and related redemption of preferred equity by CHK Cleveland Tonkawa, LLC (together with GSO Capital Partners, EIG Global Energy Partners, and Magnetar Capital)
Courtland Capital Market Services
- Acquisition of the assets of Emerald Oil, Inc. on behalf of lenders Fir Tree Partners and Crestline Investors
Approach Resources Inc.
- Initial exchange of senior notes held by the majority noteholder for new common shares of Approach, and a follow-on exchange offer for the remaining notes for new common shares of Approach
Kellen-Wildcat Holdings (a joint venture between Wildcat Midstream Partners and Old Ironsides Energy)
- Sale of a 40% stake (retaining 10%) in Wildcat Midstream Holdings LLC to affiliates of Highstar Capital, the owner of the other 50% of Wildcat Midstream