Clayton M. Heery

Associate

Houston
clayton.heery@lw.com
+1.713.546.7487

PRACTICES

  • Capital Markets
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Public Company Representation

INDUSTRIES

  • Automotive
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Technology

BAR QUALIFICATIONS

  • Texas

EDUCATION

  • JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 2016
  • BBA, Emory University, 2013

LANGUAGES SPOKEN

  • English

PROFILE

Clayton Heery, an associate in the Houston office, focuses on corporate transactions involving the energy, infrastructure, and technology sectors.

Clayton represents clients across all aspects of life as a public company. He advises companies, boards of directors, and senior management across industries on strategic corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions involving public and private targets, SPAC business combinations, initial public offerings (IPOs) and follow-on equity offerings, debt offerings, and post-transaction corporate governance, periodic reporting, and public company compliance.

EXPERIENCE

Clayton's experience includes representing:

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in its pending US$4.9 billion acquisition of ZT Systems
  • Andeavor Logistics in its US$1.8 billion acquisition of Western Refining Logistics
  • Citizen Energy Operating in its US$1 billion acquisition of Roan Resources
  • CNX Resources Corporation in its US$357 million take-private of CNX Midstream Partners
  • Equitrans Midstream Corporation in:
    • Its merger with EQT Corporation to create a US$35 billion combined company
    • Transformative actions, including its US$1.8 billion take-private of EQM Midstream Partners and a share buy back from EQT
  • Falcon Minerals Corporation in its US$1.9 billion acquisition of Desert Peak Minerals
  • Global Infrastructure Partners in its pending US$3.3 billion sale of the controlling interest in EnLink Midstream to ONEOK
  • Heramba GmbH in its acquisition of Kiepe Electric
  • Otonomo Technologies in:
    • Its merger with Urgent.ly
    • Its acquisitions of Neura and The Floow
  • PAO TMK in its US$1.2 billion sale of IPSCO Tubulars to Tenaris S.A.
  • Rosetta Resources Inc. in its US$3.9 billion sale to Noble Energy
  • TransMontaigne Partners in its US$536 million sale to ArcLight Energy Partners

SPAC Business Combinations

  • Heramba GmbH in its US$450 million merger with Project Energy Reimagined Acquisition Corp.
  • Innoviz in its US$1.4 billion merger with Collective Growth Corporation
  • Latch in its US$1.56 billion merger with TS Innovation Acquisitions Corp.
  • Nogin in its US$646 million merger with Software Acquisition Group III
  • Otonomo Technologies in its US$1.4 billion merger with Software Acquisition Group II
  • USHG Acquisition in its pending merger with Panera Brands

Equity Capital Markets

  • ProPetro Holding Corp. in its US$401 million IPO and registered follow-on equity offerings
  • Innoviz in its registered follow-on equity offering
  • Nogin in its registered follow-on equity offering
  • Underwriters in follow-on equity offerings for Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc., Matador Resources Company, Kimbell Royalty Partners LP, and Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure

Debt Capital Markets

  • CNX Resources Corporation in numerous offerings of senior notes
  • Hess Infrastructure Partners LP in its US$800 million senior notes offering
  • Quanta Services, Inc. in numerous registered offerings of senior notes
  • Magellan Midstream Partners in its numerous registered offerings of senior notes
  • Initial purchasers in offerings of senior notes by EP Energy, Par Petroleum, LLC, SunCoke Energy Partners, Covey Park, Patterson-UTI Energy, Matador Resources Company, Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc., Eclipse Resources, Sanchez Energy, and Blue Racer Midstream
  • Dealer managers in exchange offers by EP Energy and Northern Oil & Gas