Josh is a Partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group in the Firm's Houston office.
Biography
Josh's practice focuses on representing domestic and international private equity funds, their portfolio companies and other public and private companies in strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and securities offerings.
Josh also advises companies in connection with the negotiation of partnership and LLC agreements, securities laws compliance and corporate governance. Josh's work spans a broad range of industries, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors.
Experience
Representation of KKR in its acquisition of a 50% stake in a 1.4 GW North American solar portfolio from TotalEnergies.*
Representation of Talen Energy in the sale of its 226 MW portfolio of natural gas-fired power generation assets to PowerTransitions®.*
Representation of Aspen Midstream II in its partnership with Encap Flatrock to pursue midstream infrastructure opportunities.*
Representation of Crusoe in its strategic partnership with Tallgrass, a leading infrastructure company focused on safety, reliably and sustainably delivering energy and services, to develop a 1.8 gigawatt AI data center campus in Wyoming.*
Representation of Talen Energy in its combined $3.8 billion acquisitions of gas-fired power plants Moxie Freedom Energy Center and Guernsey Power Station from Caithness Energy and BlackRock.*
Representation of NGP-backed Greenlake Energy's management team in the formation of an exploration and production acquisition platform, Greenlake Energy II, LLC, funded by a $200 million equity commitment from NGP.*
Representation of I Squared Capital in its acquisition of equity interests in the Matterhorn Express Pipeline.*
Representation of Olympus Energy, a Blackstone portfolio company, in its $1.8 billion sale of upstream and midstream assets to EQT Corporation.*
Representation of Howard Energy Partners in its acquisition of equity interests in Midship Pipeline from Cheniere Energy.*
Representation of Viridon, a Blackstone portfolio company, in its acquisition of transmission rights on the Path 15 corridor in central California from a Duke Energy and American Transmission joint venture.*
Representation of Talen Energy in its acquisition of TeraWulf Inc.'s equity interest in Nautilus Cryptomine, a 200-MW nuclear-powered bitcoin mining facility in Berwick, Pennsylvania.*
Representation of a private equity consortium led by EOC Partners and Elda River Capital in its significant preferred equity investment in Brazos Midstream to fund new-build gathering and processing infrastructure in the Midland Basin I Squared Capital in a joint venture with WhiteWater, MPLX LP (NYSE: MPLX), Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB) and an affiliate of Targa Resources Corp. (NYSE: TRGP) to reach final investment decision for construction of the Blackcomb Pipeline.*
Representation of Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in its approximately $1 billion investment in a portfolio of wind and solar projects with NextEra Energy Resources.*
Representation of I Squared Capital in the strategic joint venture between ISQ Whistler Holdings, Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB) and MPLX LP (NYSE: MPLX) to combine the Whistler Pipeline and Rio Bravo Pipeline project.*
Representation of Talen Energy in the $785 million sale of its 1,710 MW portfolio of natural gas-fired generation facilities in ERCOT to CPS Energy.*
Representation of Talen Energy in the $650 million sale of its nuclear-powered Cumulus data center campus to Amazon Web Services.*
Representation of Mach Natural Resources LP (NYSE: MNR) in its $190 million initial public offering.*
Representation of Powin, a global leader in energy storage solutions, in its partnership with Hitachi Energy in eks Energy.*
Representation of Blackstone Energy Partners in its sale of Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. to Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEN).*
Representation of Civitas Resources in its $2.25 billion definitive agreement to acquire oil producing assets in the Midland Basin from Hibernia Energy III, a portfolio company of NGP Energy Capital Management.*
Representation of Unsecured creditor group of Talen Energy, one of the largest competitive power generation companies in North America, in connection with its Chapter 11 reorganization and $1.4 billion recapitalization led by the unsecured creditor group, which emerged as the new majority equity owners of the reorganized company.*
Representation of I Squared Capital in its acquisition of a majority interest in the Whistler Pipeline.*
Representation of Powin, a global leader in energy storage solutions, in its acquisition of eks Energy, a leading provider of advanced power electronics and energy management solutions for energy storage and renewables.*
Representation of Powin, a global leader in energy storage solutions, in growth and strategic equity investments with GIC and Samsung Venture Investment Corporation.*
Representation of Riverbend Energy Group in its $1.8 billion divestiture of all of the equity interests in Riverbend Oil & Gas VI, LLC, Riverbend Oil & Gas VI-B, LLC and Riverbend Oil & Gas VIII, LLC to a private buyer.*
Representation of Ramaco Resources, Inc. (NASDAQ: METC) in its acquisition of Ramaco Coal LLC, an entity owned by an investment fund managed by Yorktown Partners LLC and certain members of the Company's management.*
Representation of Civitas Resources Inc. (NYSE: CIVI) in its $346 million acquisition of Bison Oil & Gas II LLC.*
Representation of Vine Energy Inc. (NYSE: VEI) in its $2.2 billion acquisition by Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: CHK).*
Representation of Vortus Investments on its partnership with Flat Creek Resources LLC to develop existing oil-rich assets in Eddy County, New Mexico in the Delaware Basin through Stateline Operating LLC.*
Representation of Vine Energy Inc. (NYSE: VEI), in its initial public offering, resulting in an aggregate net proceeds received by Vine of $324 million.*
Representation of Noble Corporation in its acquisition of Pacific Drilling Co. LLC in an all-stock transaction.*
Representation of Bluescape Energy Partners LLC in a $115 million common equity investment in Evergy Inc.*
*Matters prior to joining White & Case.