Donovan, Kevin Philip

Kevin Donovan

Associate

kevin.donovan@lw.com
    Donovan, Kevin Philip

    Kevin Donovan

    Associate

    kevin.donovan@lw.com

    Profile

    Kevin Donovan is an associate in the Houston office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practices.

    Kevin advises public and private companies, including private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, on a variety of complex transactional matters in the energy, infrastructure, and technology industries. His experience includes representing clients on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, and public and private financing transactions, as well as on general corporate matters.

    Prior to joining Latham full time, Kevin was a summer associate and legal intern in Latham’s Houston office.

    While attending law school, he served as the podcast editor for the Houston Law Review, was a teaching assistant for contracts, torts, and constitutional law, and won the Lorance Thompson Negotiation Competition. Before attending law school, Kevin served as an Intelligence Officer for the US Army and deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and NATO’s Resolute Support Mission.

    Experience

    Kevin’s experience includes advising:

    • Post Oak Energy Capital on its equity commitment to Tiburon
    • An industrial distribution supply company on its sale to a strategic private equity backed buyer 
    • A solar development company on the sale of its solar-powered electric generating facility with an expected nameplate capacity of 600 MWac to a strategic buyer
    • Post Oak Energy Capital on its equity commitment to Ichthys Energy
    • Priority Power in its acquisition by I Squared Capital
    • An asset management firm in connection with its acquisition and securitization of approximately US$2 billion of proved developed producing natural gas assets
    • Ceiba Energy and Denham Capital on the sale of a 1.6 GW capacity reserve contract to New Fortress Energy
    • Vencer Energy on its sale of assets to Civitas for US$2.15 billion
    • Blaize on its business combination with BurTech Acquisition Corp. with a pro forma enterprise value of US$894 million
    • EnCap Energy Transition Fund in its investment in Parliament Solar, a joint venture with Mercuria Energy, to construct and operate a 480 MWac solar project in Waller County, Texas
    • Energy Transfer in multiple notes offerings totaling over US$10 billion in aggregate
    • A polyethylene company on its US$1.4 billion private placement of senior notes
    • ExxonMobil on its Carbon Capture and Storage Agreement with Linde

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • Texas

    Education

    • JD, University of Houston Law Center
      summa cum laude, Order of the Coif
    • BA in Political Science & Music, Providence College
      magna cum laude, Distinguished Military Graduate

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