REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCEBen’s extensive merger, acquisition and divestiture experience includes:
Electric and Gas Utility
- Representing an energy services company in its acquisition of natural gas utilities, storage and pipeline company.
- Representing a client in the acquisition of Hawaii’s only full-service gas energy company.
- Representing an energy company in a merger with a major utility company.
- Representing a public utility holding company in its sale to one of the nation’s largest investor-owned energy companies.
- Representing a public utility in the sale of its regulated electric utility operations and simultaneous split-off of the company’s unregulated operations.
- Representing a public utility holding company in the acquisition of Connecticut’s largest natural gas distribution company.
Pipeline
- Representing an energy holding company in its acquisition of a natural gas company.
- Advising holding companies on the purchase and subsequent refinancing of a natural gas pipeline.
- Representing a natural gas company in the sale of its partnership interests in a Louisiana intrastate pipeline.
- Representing a natural gas compression services provider in the sale of contractual rights and related assets in various pipeline compression stations.
Power Generation
- Representing a multinational energy company in the divestiture of its joint venture interests in certain Nevada and California power generation assets.
- Representing an energy services company in its acquisition of several Texas power generation facilities.
- Representing an energy services company in its divestiture of Texas power generation assets in bankruptcy.
- Representing a public utility holding company in its acquisition of a Corpus Christi, Texas, power generation facility.
- Representing an energy trading company in its acquisition of a tolling agreement for the purchase of a tax ownership participation interest relating to a Maryland facility.
- Representing an energy trading company in its acquisition of a tolling agreement relating to a New Jersey facility.
Exploration and Production
- Representing a Malaysian-based oil company in a successful bid for interest in an offshore oil and gas block in Southeast Asia.
- Representing a Chinese-owned import and export company in the acquisition of an interest in Ecuador’s Amazon Basin.
- Representing an oil and gas exploration company in the competitive bid sale of oil and gas assets.
- Representing a client in the auction sale of its oil and gas exploration assets.
- Representing a client in the acquisition of a domestic exploration company.
Oilfield Service
- Representing a publicly held foreign oilfield service company in the purchase of a downhole drilling technology company.
- Representing a publicly held foreign oilfield service company in the purchase of a Houston-based specialty drilling machine shop.
- Representing a publicly held foreign oilfield service company in the purchase of a specialty drilling manufacturing company.
- Representing a financial institution in the sale of a flexible downhole pipe business.
- Representing a publicly held foreign oilfield service company in the acquisition of a specialty downhole equipment and technology company.
Water Utility
- Representing a Northeast-based publicly held water utility in the $2.16 billion going-private sale of remaining outstanding public shares to its majority shareholder, a major multinational water concern.
- Representing a water service utility in its approximately $100 million sale to a publicly held water company.
Refinery
- Advising a client in a project involving the purchase of a refinery, relocation of half of the facility to another client location, resale and removal of the remaining units, and grass roots construction of additional units.
- Representing an oil company in an asset purchase of a small refinery on the Gulf Coast.
- Representing an oil company in the sale of a small Louisiana refinery.
General
- Representing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in its natural gas initiative, which was planned to result in an approximately $30 billion investment in the natural gas, natural gas products, power, water and petrochemical sectors of the Kingdom’s economy.
- Representing a natural gas company in the acquisition of a 20% interest in an energy products and services provider.
- Representing a commodity trading firm in the formation of a joint venture with a sovereign wealth fund for the acquisition of a contractual interest in a power generation facility.
- Representing a consortium of four international oil companies and the national state oil company in various aspects of an LNG project in Angola.
PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Houston Bar Association
- Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
