Ryan J. Maierson

Ryan’s representative experience includes advising:

M&A

• Altus Power in its take-private acquisition by TPG
• Priority Power, an Ara Partners portfolio company that provides turnkey energy management services, in its acquisition by I Squared Capital
• Archrock in its US$983 million acquisition of Total Operations and Production Services
• CenterPoint Energy in the US$1.2 billion sale of its Louisiana and Mississippi natural gas local distribution businesses to Delta Utilities, a portfolio company of Bernhard Capital Partners (pending)
• SLB in its US$7 billion acquisition of ChampionX Corporation (pending)
• Equitrans Midstream in its merger with EQT Corporation to create a US$35 billion combined company (recognized by IJInvestor as the 2024 Oil & Gas Acquisition of the Year)
• R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company in its acquisition of Vericast’s digital and print marketing business
• Desktop Metal in its all-cash acquisition by Nano Dimension (pending)
• Flame Acquisition Corp. in its US$625 million purchase of offshore California oil properties from ExxonMobil to form Sable Offshore Corp.
• Consolidated Communications, a provider of fiber communications solutions, in its US$3.1 billion take-private sale to Searchlight Capital Partners and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation
• Magellan Midstream Partners in its US$18.8 billion merger with ONEOK, Inc.
• IncitecPivot Limited in the US$1.68 billion sale of its ammonia manufacturing facility located in Waggaman, Louisiana, to CF Industries Holdings, Inc. and a subsequent long-term ammonia offtake agreement with CF Industries
• Centennial Resource Development in its US$7 billion merger with Colgate Energy Partners III to create the largest pure-play E&P company in the Delaware Basin
• TotalEnergies in its US$2.4 billion:
  • Acquisition of half of Global Infrastructure Partners’ interest in Clearway Group
  • Sale of half of TotalEnergies’ interest in SunPower Corp.
• Quanta Services in its US$2.7 billion acquisition of Blattner Energy, one of the largest utility-scale renewable energy infrastructure solutions providers in North America
• Sasol in its US$2 billion sale of a 50% stake in Lake Charles Chemical Plant to form a joint venture with LyondellBasell, a multinational chemical company
• Chevron in its acquisition of Noble Midstream Partners in a master limited partnership take-private transaction
• UGI in its US$5.375 billion acquisition of the remaining 74% stake in Amerigas, a retail propane distributor
• Equitrans Midstream in its US$1.8 billion:
  • Acquisition of EQM Midstream Partners
  • Share buyback from EQT
  • Gas gathering and compression agreement with EQT
• IPSCO Tubulars, a producer of seamless and welded oil country tubular goods, in its US$1.02 billion sale to Tenaris 
• Shell Midstream Partners’ conflicts committee in the company’s US$4.4 billion acquisition of Royal Dutch Shell’s interest in Mattox Pipeline and certain logistics assets at the Shell Norco Manufacturing Complex 
• TotalEnergies in its US$250 million acquisition of SunPower’s Commercial & Industrial Solutions Business

Capital Markets

• EQM Midstream Partners in its US$1.9 billion guaranteed notes offer and US$350 million tender offer
• TechnipFMC in its US$1 billion senior notes offering
• Total Capital International in its US$2.5 billion guaranteed notes offer
• UGI International in its €400 million senior notes offering
• Issuers and underwriters in dozens of initial public offerings, including for:
  • ProPetro Holding
  • Smart Sand
  • Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure
  • Antero Midstream GP
  • Emerge Energy Services
  • Penntex Midstream Partners
  • Antero Resources
  • Enable Midstream
  • Cypress Energy Partners
  • JP Energy Partners
  • Southcross Energy Partners

SPAC Mergers

• Desktop Metal, a company that designs and markets 3D printing systems, in its US$2.5 billion merger with Trine Acquisition Corp.
• ECP Environmental Growth Opportunities in its business combination with Fast Radius, a cloud manufacturing company
• Fold in Business Combination with FTAC Emerald Acquisition Corp.
• Harley-Davidson in LiveWire’s US$1.77 billion deSPAC merger with AEA-Bridges Impact Corp., making LiveWire the first publicly traded electric vehicle motorcycle company in the US
• ironSource, an Israeli mobile marketing company, in its US$11.1 billion deSPAC merger with Thoma Bravo Advantage
• Joby Aviation, a company developing all-electric aircraft for aerial ridesharing, in its US$4.5 billion business combination with Reinvent Technology Partners 
• ReNew Power in its US$8 billion deSPAC merger with RMG Acquisition Corporation II, India’s largest deSPAC to date, to create India’s biggest publicly traded renewable energy company by total generation capacity
• Tritium, a developer and manufacturer of direct-current fast chargers for electric vehicles, in its US$1.2 billion deSPAC merger with Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corp. II to become a publicly traded company
• Wallbox, a leading provider of electric vehicle charging solutions, in its US$1.5 billion deSPAC merger with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. II