

Clients says that Laura Katherine “is a great lawyer to work with and very commercial.”
Biography
Laura Katherine Mann is a partner in White & Case's Americas Capital Markets Group, resident in the Firm's Houston office.
Laura Katherine represents public and private companies in a broad range of corporate and securities matters. She represents issuers, investment banking firms and other investors in public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, including initial public offerings, follow-on and secondary public offerings and 144A offerings. Her practice also includes mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters, including Exchange Act reporting and corporate governance.
Experience
Capital Markets and Securities Matters
- Representation of GameStop Corp. in $4.2 billion of convertible notes offerings.
- Representation of CenterPoint Energy, Inc. and its affiliates on:
- $2.7 billion of public offerings of common and preferred stock;
- a $1.4 billion equity investment from Elliott Management and others;
- a $978 million public offering of depositary shares representing a 1/20 interest in a share of
- CenterPoint Energy, Inc.'s 7.00% Series B Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock; and
- over $8 billion of public offerings of senior notes and general mortgage bonds.
- Representation of TC Energy in CAD$7.9 billion offering of senior and subordinated notes of South Bow Corporation in connection with the spinoff of its Liquids Pipelines business.
- Representation of the underwriters in over US$5.8 billion of public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities of Spectra Energy Corp and subsidiaries.
- Representation of EchoStar in exchange of approximately US$5 billion of convertible notes of DISH Network for US$2.3 billion of spectrum secured senior notes and US$1.9 billion of spectrum secured convertible senior notes.
- Representation of affiliates of Transocean Ltd. in over US$2.4 billion of private placements of senior secured notes and a US$700 million waterfall debt tender offer.
- Representation of affiliates of McDermott International, Inc. in a US$1.3 billion private placement of senior notes.
- Representation of Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. in its US$1.1 billion initial public offering.
- Representation of Enable Midstream Partners, LP in its US$575 million initial public offering, US$363 million private placement of preferred equity and US$161 million public equity offering.
- Representation of the initial purchasers in a US$500 million private placement of debt securities of Pacific Drilling V Limited.
- Representation of Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP in US$435 million of private placements of preferred units.
- Representation of Ormat Technologies, Inc. in its US$375 million offering of green convertible notes.
- Representation of Oatly Group AB in private placements of US$335 million of convertible notes.
- Representation of Cactus, Inc. in its US$332 million public equity offering and of the underwriters in Cactus, Inc.'s US$503 million initial public offering.
- Representation of Morgan Stanley on W&T Offshore, Inc.'s US$275 million senior second lien notes offering.
- Representation of Bit Digital, Inc. in US$240 million of public equity offerings.
- Representation of TotalEnergies and Global Infrastructure Partners on a US$175 million financing transaction with SunPower Corporation, which included warrants.
- Representation of WhiteFiber, Inc. in its US$159 million initial public offering.
- Representation of the underwriters in the initial public offering of OCI Resources LP.
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Representation of the Conflicts Committee of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) and the Special Committee of Kinder Morgan Management (KMR) in the US$70 billion purchase of KMP, KMR and El Paso Pipeline Partners by Kinder Morgan, Inc.
- Representation of CenterPoint Energy, Inc. in the formation of a midstream joint venture with assets over US$11 billion.
- Representation of the Board of Directors of Plains GP Holdings, L.P. in its US$7.2 billion simplification transaction with Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.
- Representation of WorleyParsons Ltd. in its US$3.2 billion acquisition of the energy, chemicals and resources division of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
- Representation of TC Energy on spin-off of liquids pipelines to create two premium energy infrastructure companies.
SPAC Transactions
- Representation of dMY Technology Group Inc. IV in its US$2.8 billion business combination with Planet Labs.
- Representation of Tigo Energy, Inc. in its US$600 million business combination with Roth CH Acquisition IV Co.
- Representation of Presto Automation Inc. in its US$525 million business combination with Ventoux CCM Acquisition Corp.
- Representation of REE Automotive, Ltd. in its warrant exchange.
- Representation of the dealer manager in a warrant exchange for Genius Sports.