Christine T. Mainguy

Christine’s experience includes advising:

M&A Transactions

• Ares Management Corporation in its US$3.7 billion acquisition of GCP International, excluding its operations in Greater China (GCP International)
• Intuitive Machines, a space exploration, infrastructure, and services company, on its business combination with Inflection Point Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company
• Equitrans Midstream Partners on its merger with EQT
• SIMON Group on the sale of SIMON Markets, a fintech company, to iCapital
• Petra Funds Group, a fund administrator serving private investment firms, on a majority growth investment by Charlesbank Capital Partners 
• Apollo on its US$2 billion preferred investment in AT&T Mobility II
• Silver Lake on its US$12.5 billion take-private acquisition of Qualtrics
• Blackstone Infrastructure Partners on its US$2.15 billion acquisition of minority equity interest in NIPSCO, a vertically integrated electric and gas utility company and developer of renewable energy projects
• Cerifi and LRN, Leeds Equity Partners portfolio companies, on strategic acquisitions from Thomson Reuters
• Chevron USA on the deployment and ongoing financing of a groundbreaking bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) project to produce carbon-negative power in Mendota, California
• Chevron on Bayou Bend’s expansion of its carbon dioxide (CO2) storage footprint through acquiring nearly 100,000 acres onshore in Chambers and Jefferson Counties, Texas
• Yara International on multiple carbon capture sequestration projects
• Lightsource BP shareholders on the company’s sale of its renewable energy portfolio to BP 
• Sixth Street on the National Women’s Soccer League investment to expand to Bay Area
• Neos, a private equity fund, on forming and acquiring Mill Creek Renewables
• Lucid Energy Group on its US$3.5 billion acquisition by Targa Resources Corp.
• Stoller Group on its US$1.2 billion acquisition by Corteva
• X-Energy on its US$2 billion de-SPAC combination with Ares Acquisition Corp. using an “Up-C” structure
• Harley-Davidson subsidiary LiveWire on its US$1.77 billion deSPAC merger with AEA-Bridges Impact Corp. using a “double-dummy” structure
• Firehouse Subs on its US$1 billion sale to Restaurant Brands International
• Healthcare Inc. on acquiring Summit Pharmacy
• Chesapeake Energy on its US$2.2 billion acquisition of Vine Energy in a tax-free reorganization
• Linode, an S corporation, on its US$900 million acquisition by Akamai Technologies
• Enbridge, as special tax counsel, with respect to the US$6.8 billion simplification of its corporate structure via cross-border mergers of its public corporate and master limited partnership (MLP) subsidiaries
• Rice Energy on its US$2.7 billion acquisition of Vantage Energy using an acquisitive “Up-C” structure
• Buckeye Partners and Nala Renewables on acquiring a majority interest in Swift Current Energy, a leading North American clean energy development and investment platform with a pipeline of over 6 GW of solar, wind, and energy storage projects*
• Noble Energy on its US$13 billion sale to Chevron in a tax-free reorganization*
• Parsley Energy on its US$4.5 billion sale to Pioneer Natural Resources Company*
• TC Energy on its US$1.68 billion unit-for-unit simplification transaction between TC Energy and TC PipeLines*
• Buckeye Partners, as special tax counsel, on its US$10.3 billion sale to IFM Investors to take the company private*
• Energy Transfer Partners on its US$60 billion merger with Energy Transfer Equity in a unit-for-unit exchange*
• The Board of Directors of Alliance Holdings GP on the US$1.1 billion simplification transaction between Alliance Holdings GP and Alliance Resource Partners*
• Memorial Resource Development on its US$4.4 billion merger with Range Resources*
• Flywheel Energy Operating, a portfolio company of funds managed by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, on its US$1.86 billion acquisition of all Fayetteville Shale and ARKOMA upstream and midstream assets of Southwestern Energy Company via acquiring 100% of the issued and outstanding securities in SWN Production (Arkansas) and DeSoto Gathering Company*
• EIG Management Company on the US$590 million private purchase of NuStar Energy Series D cumulative convertible preferred units*
• Buckeye Partners on structuring its foreign investment in a 50% stake in the VTTI Group, one of the largest independent global energy terminal businesses, with an implied total value of US$2.3 billion*
• Buckeye Partners on acquiring solar projects from Belltown Power Land
• Sixth Street Partners on acquiring an interest in the San Antonio Spurs
• Warburg Pincus on acquiring upstream oil and gas assets
• Gravity Energy on its business combination via an “Up-C” structure

Capital Markets

• Golden Nugget on a PIPE offering of 124,000,000 shares of Class A common stock listed on the NYSE
• Blue Source Sustainable Forest on its US$1 billion preferred equity financing
• Kinetik Holdings on its US$1 billion sustainability-linked notes
• Riverstone affiliate companies Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation I, II, III, and IV on their initial public offerings (IPOs) of units (all SPACs)
• NGP’s Switchback Energy Acquisition Corporation on its IPO of units
• Sentinel Energy Services, a SPAC, on its US$345 million IPO of common stock*
• WildHorse Resource Development Corporation on its US$447 million IPO of common stock*
• Ranger Energy Services on its US$85 million IPO of common stock utilizing an Up-C structure*
• BP Midstream Partners on its US$765 million IPO of common units*
• Noble Midstream on its IPO of common units
• Sunoco LP on its exchange of public notes
• Kayne Private Energy Income Fund II on its capital raise
• Silverbox Engaged Merger Corp. on its IPO of units
• Crestwood Energy Partners on its notes offering
• Weekley Homes on its notes offering

Restructurings

• Ares Capital on restructuring outstanding debt held by Panda Stonewall Intermediate Holdings II
• Goodrich Petroleum on its bankruptcy
• Apollo Global Management on its debt restructuring
• MECO IV on restructuring its outstanding debt with EIG

*Matters handled prior to joining Latham