Sydney Verner

Sydney’s experience includes advising: 

• Mercuria Investments US in its acquisition of HC2 Holdings' majority-owned clean energy subsidiary Beyond6 for approximately US$169 million*
• DoublePoint Energy in connection with the sale of its leasehold interests and related assets to Pioneer Natural Resources for approximately US$6.4 billion*
• Hartree Partners in its purchase of the general partner interest, incentive distribution rights, and all the limited partner interests held by Axel Johnson in Sprague Resources*
• Plains All American Pipeline in a transaction with Oryx Midstream Holdings, a portfolio company of Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, to merge their respective assets, operations, and commercial activities within the Permian Basin into a newly formed strategic joint venture*
• Milestone Group, a real estate private equity firm, in its final closing of Milestone Real Estate Investors V (Fund V), with aggregate capital commitments of US$750 million*
• Jagged Peak Energy in the negotiation of and entry into a definitive merger agreement with Parsley Energy, under which Parsley acquired Jagged Peak in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately US$2.27 billion*
• Southwest Airlines in its application to and negotiation of agreements with the United States Department of the Treasury for payroll support funding of over US$7 billion in the aggregate under the Payroll Support Program (PSP) of the CARES Act and its successor programs, PSP2 and PSP3*
• OneWater Marine in connection with its initial public offering of 5,307,693 shares of its Class A common stock at US$12 per share*
• OneWater Marine and the selling stockholders in connection with the company’s underwritten public offering of 3,170,868 shares of its Class A common stock at US$20 per share*
• The selling stockholders in connection with Pioneer Natural Resources Company’s secondary offering of 6 million shares of its common stock by Double Eagle
• Energy Holdings III and Q-FPP (VII) Subsidiary, which are majority owned by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management and Quantum Energy Partners, respectively*
• Southwest Airlines in connection with its underwritten public offering of US$2 billion aggregate principal amount of 1.25% convertible senior notes*
• The initial purchasers in connection with an offering of US$400 million of 4.75% senior secured notes by CNX Midstream Partners*

• The initial purchasers in connection with an offering of US$700 million of 8.5% senior secured second lien notes by Summit Midstream Holdings and Summit Midstream Finance*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham.