Greg Heath

Greg Heath is Co-Chair of the Firm's Private Equity and Venture Capital Practice Group and a member of the Firm's Board of Directors. Greg concentrates his practice in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, private equity financing and general corporate matters, with a particular emphasis on clients in the energy industry. Greg has primarily focused his practice on mergers and acquisitions, representing public and private clients as well as strategic and financial buyers and sellers. Greg has represented clients in a wide range of transaction valuations, ranging from $5 million to more than $10 billion.

Greg's representative experience includes:

• Main Street Capital Corporation in over 30 platform equity and debt investments in a variety of industries, as well as numerous exit transactions
• Tailwater Capital, LLC, in its sale of Align Midstream II, LLC, to Momentum Midstream
• Multiple private equity funds in oilfield services and midstream investments ranging from $20 million to $200 million
• Target oilfield services and midstream companies in various private equity transactions ranging from $20 million to $350 million
• Iron Creek Partners in several platform acquisitions and the recapitalization of CAI Software
• Tailwater Capital, LLC, in the sale of Align Midstream, LLC, to Enable Midstream Partners, LP, for approximately $300 million
• Stronghold, Ltd., and Stronghold Specialty, Ltd., in the company’s acquisition by Quanta Services, Inc., for $450 million base consideration with a maximum additional contingent consideration of $100 million
• Dover Corporation's fluids segment in its acquisition of Gala Industries and the assets of Reduction Engineering, both of which are engaged in the polymer and plastic processing markets
• Team, Inc., in its $250 million acquisition of the Qualspec Group, a leading provider of NDT inspection services
• Duke Energy in connection with the formation of a joint venture with Dominion Resources, Piedmont Natural Gas and AGL Resources to develop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a $5 billion natural gas pipeline project to transport natural gas from the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale areas to Virginia and North Carolina
• NGL Energy Partners LP in multiple strategic acquisitions, including:
  • its $890 million purchase of Gavilon, LLC, a midstream energy company with assets located in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana
  • several acquisitions in the water solutions segment
• Helix Energy Solutions Group in the $620 million sale of its oil and gas subsidiary to Talos Energy
• A publicly traded industrial services company in multiple strategic acquisitions
• Assisted in the representation of El Paso Corporation in the sale of its oil and gas exploration and production units in a $7.15 billion leveraged buyout to a private equity consortium led by Apollo Global Management
• Assisted in the representation of C&J Energy Services, Inc., in its $272.5 million acquisition of Casedhole Holdings, Inc., a provider of cased-hole wireline and complementary services
• Assisted in the representation of a public utility services holding company in its $8 billion acquisition of a public energy company and utility
• Assisted in the representation of a public fertilizer manufacturing company in:
  • its unsolicited offer to purchase a competitor and related exchange offer and proxy contest
  • its defense against an intervening unsolicited takeover proposal from another competitor
  • its $4.7 billion acquisition of a competitor and related $1.1 billion common stock and $1.6 billion senior note offerings
• Assisted in the representation of a public financial and commodities derivative exchange in its $11.5 billion acquisition of a competing exchange and its $10.6 billion contested acquisition of a competing exchange
• Assisted in the representation of a public automobile insurance provider in its $1.9 billion going-private sale to a major international insurance company