Kealan Hannes
Kealan Hannes
Kealan Hannes
Kealan Hannes

Biography

Kealan is a tax associate in the Firm's Houston office. His practice primarily involves representation of public and private clients in various transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, debt finance, and capital markets transactions.

Experience

Representative matters include the representation of:

Mergers & Acquisitions & Joint Ventures

NRG Energy, Inc. on its approximately US$12 billion acquisition of a portfolio of natural gas generation facilities and a commercial and industrial virtual power plant platform from LS Power.

Occidental on its joint venture with BHE Renewables, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, for the demonstration and deployment of TerraLithium's Direct Lithium Extraction and associated technologies to extract and commercially produce high-purity lithium compounds from geothermal brine.

CVC / Vitech in connection with Majesco agreement to acquire Vitech, CVC's portfolio company and a leading provider of cloud-native pension and benefits administration software.

EIG on its acquisition of a 49.87 percent equity ownership stake in Transportadora de Gas del Perú S.A. (TGP) from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

IFS on its acquisition of Softeon, a leading provider of supply chain software, from Warburg Pincus.

CNOOC Energy Holdings USA. Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited, on the sale of CNOOC Holdings USA Inc., which owned CNOOC's upstream oil and gas business located in the US Gulf of Mexico primarily comprised of non-operating interests in oil and gas projects, to INEOS Energy.

Nexans, on its US$280 million sale of AmerCable Incorporated, a leading manufacturer of electrical power, control and instrumentation cables for harsh environments, to a subsidiary of Mattr Corp.

Mitsui E&P USA LLC on its approximately US$141 million acquisition of oil and gas leases located in the Haynesville area, from Sabana Haynesville, LLC and Vanna Production, LLC.

Capital Markets

TC Energy Corporation on a notes offering by South Bow Corporation of approximately CAD 7.9 billion in aggregate principal amount in connection with the spinoff of TC Energy's Liquids Pipelines business.

TotalEnergies on its US$3.5 billion guaranteed note issuance registered with the SEC.

BNP PARIBAS, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Société Générale and Standard Chartered Bank, as joint lead managers and dealer managers, on the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire's US$2.1 billion dual tranche 144A/Reg S bond offering and on the Republic's tender offer to purchase two series of its existing bonds.

Multicoin Capital on its investment in a US$1.65 billion private placement in Forward Industries, Inc. to initiate a Solana-focused digital asset treasury strategy.

Eni on its US$1 billion 5.75% fixed rate yankee bond issuance due 2035, issued pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S under the US Securities Act.

Bit Digital, on its upsized underwritten public offering of US$135 million aggregate principal amount of 4.00% convertible senior notes due 2030.

Texas
JD
University of Virginia School of Law
BA
University of Michigan
English

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