Verner, Sydney

Sydney Verner

Associate

sydney.verner@lw.com
    Verner, Sydney

    Sydney Verner

    Associate

    sydney.verner@lw.com

    Profile

    Verner is an associate in the Houston office of Latham & Watkins.

    Sydney represents public and private companies as well as financial institutions in a broad range of financing and strategic transactions, with a particular emphasis on securities offerings across a variety of industries. She advises issuers and investment banks on a range of complex equity and debt capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, high-yield and investment-grade debt offerings, follow-on and secondary offerings, and convertible notes offerings.

    Sydney also advises clients across various industries on their public reporting obligations, corporate governance matters, general corporate law matters, and other issues related to public company status, including compliance with Exchange Act disclosure requirements and NYSE and Nasdaq corporate governance rules.

    Experience

    Sydney’s experience includes representing: 

    Equity Capital Markets

    • Hess Midstream in its US$499 million secondary offering 
    • Archrock in its US$265.65 million follow-on offering 
    • The underwriters in FlowCo Holdings Inc.’s initial public offering 
    • The underwriters in Kodiak Gas Services’ initial public offering
    • The distribution agents in connection with Standard Lithium’s US$50 million at-the-market program 
    • The underwriters in follow-on equity offerings for EVgo, Solaris Energy Infrastructure, Permian Resources Corporation, Kinetic Holdings Inc. and Kimbell Royalty Partners
    • The underwriters in multiple secondary offerings totaling over US$611 million for Kodiak Gas Services
    • OneWater Marine Inc. in its initial public offering and in its US$63.4 million follow-on offering* 
    • Southwest Airlines in its US$2 billion upsized follow-on offering*    

    Debt Capital Markets 

    • UGI Corporation in its US$610.0 million offering of convertible senior notes 
    • Hess Midstream in its US$800 million offering of senior notes 
    • Archrock in its US$700 million offering of senior notes and concurrent tender offer
    • Equitrans Midstream in multiple offerings of senior notes 
    • The underwriters/initial purchasers in offerings of senior notes by CNX Midstream Partners*, Summit Midstream*, Kodiak Gas Services, Patterson-UTI Energy, Rockies Express Pipeline, JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. and Permian Resources Corporation
    • The dealer manager in a tender offer by Permian Resources Corporation
    • Southwest Airlines in its US$2 billion registered offering of convertible senior notes*

    Mergers and Acquisitions

    • Mercuria Investments in its acquisition of Beyond6 from HC2 Holdings for US$169 million* 
    • DoublePoint Energy in its sale to Pioneer Natural Resources for US$6.4 billion*
    • Hartree Partners in its acquisition of Sprague Resources for US$290 million*
    • Plains All American in its strategic joint venture with Oryx Midstream*
    • Jagged Peak Energy in its sale to Parsley Energy for US$2.27 billion*

    *Matter handled prior to joining Latham.

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • Texas

    Education

    • JD, The University of Texas School of Law, 2019
      Order of the Coif
    • Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing, Texas A&M University, 2015
      summa cum laude

    Practices

    News & Insights

    Read More