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:

Representation of NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NRG), a leading North American energy and home services company, on its approximately US$12 billion acquisition of a portfolio of natural gas generation facilities and a commercial and industrial virtual power plant (C&I VPP) platform from LS Power.

Representation of 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. The other lead investors in the private placement included Galaxy Digital and Jump Crypto.

Representation of EIG, a leading institutional investor in the global energy and infrastructure sectors, 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.

Representation of 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 (DLE) and associated technologies to extract and commercially produce high-purity lithium compounds from geothermal brine.

Representation of TC Energy Corporation (TSX, NYSE: TRP) 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.

Representation of 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.

Representation of Eni's 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.

Representation of 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, including the Appomattox and Stampede fields, to INEOS Energy.

Representation of Mitsui E&P USA LLC, an independent oil and gas exploration and production company that oversees upstream activities across the western hemisphere, on its $141,200,000 acquisition of oil and gas leases located in the Haynesville area, from Sabana Haynesville, LLC and Vanna Production, LLC.

Representation of Nexans (NEX.FP), a leader in the global energy transition, 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. (MATR.TO), a materials technology company.

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

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