Brian Bruzzo advises clients on corporate finance and securities law, including securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and public company representation matters.
Brian regularly advises issuers and investment banks in a variety of capital markets transactions, including:
Secured and unsecured high yield debt offerings
SEC registered offerings
Liability management transactions, including tender offers and exchange offers
Brian maintains an active pro bono practice, representing individuals seeking asylum status in the United States and serving on the Houston office’s pro bono committee.
Experience
Brian’s experience includes advising:
Capital Markets
Underwriters on BKV Corporation’s US$270 million IPO
Underwriters on Kodiak Gas Services’ US$256 million IPO
Initial purchasers on Kinetik Holdings’ US$1 billion sustainability-linked notes offering
Waste Connections on its US$750 million registered senior notes offering and subsequent C$500 million senior notes offering in Canada
TotalEnergies on multiple registered guaranteed notes offerings totaling over US$5 billion in aggregate
Underwriters and initial purchasers on multiple Permian Resources equity and senior notes offerings totaling over US$3.7 billion in aggregate
Initial purchasers and underwriters on multiple Matador Resources senior notes offerings and an offering of common stock, totaling approximately US$2 billion in aggregate
Energy Transfer on its US$3.5 billion senior notes offering and concurrent US$400 million fixed-to-fixed junior subordinated notes offering
UGI on its US$610 million convertible senior notes offering
The underwriters on Diamondback Energy’s US$2.2 billion secondary offering of common stock
Initial purchasers and underwriters on Talos Energy’s US$1.25 billion 144A second-priority senior secured notes offering and simultaneous US$351 million common stock offering
Archrock on its US$700 million senior notes offering and concurrent tender offer
Initial purchasers on Anteros Midstream’s US$600 million senior notes offering
Mergers & Acquisitions
Fold, Inc. in its pending merger with FTAC Emerald Acquisition Corp.
Vencer Energy in its sale of assets to Civitas for US$2.15 billion
Enagás in its sale of its staek in Tallgrass Energy to Blackstone Infrastructure Partners for US$1.1 billion
Incitec Pivot Limited in its sale of its ammonia manufacturing facility located in Waggaman, Louisiana, to CF Industries Holdings, Inc. for a total value of US$1.675 billion
Otonomo Technologies Ltd. in its merger agreement with Urgent.Ly, Inc., in an all-stock transaction
EP Energy in its sale to Verdun Oil Company II, LLC, a portfolio company of EnCap Investments, for approximately US$1.45 billion
Qualifications
Bar Qualification
Texas
Education
JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 2021
BA in Political Science, George Washington University, 2016
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