A counsel in the Capital Markets Group, Steven Lackey advises on capital markets transactions, as well as corporate governance, securities law compliance and mergers and acquisitions. He regularly represents issuers or underwriters in connection with initial public offerings, high yield and investment grade notes offerings, debt exchanges and tender offers, follow-on equity offerings, preferred equity offerings, private placements and “at-the-market” programs.
Prior to joining Paul, Weiss, Steven served as the Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at W&T Offshore, where he represented the company in capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.
Prior to Paul, Weiss, Steven’s experience includes advising:
- Carrizo Oil & Gas in its:
- $3.2 billion merger with Callon Petroleum Company
- $218.5 million public offering of common stock
- Catalyst Partners Acquisition, a special purpose acquisition company, in its $300 million initial public offering
- Chesapeake Energy Corporation in its $4 billion senior secured revolving credit facility
- The underwriters for First Reserve Sustainable Growth, a special purpose acquisition company, in its $200 million initial public offering
- The underwriters for DCP Midstream in its:
- $600 million public offering of 5.125% senior notes
- $500 million public offering of 5.625% senior notes
- $325 million public offering of 5.375% senior notes
- $100 million public offering of 7.95% Series C preferred units
- Delek US Holdings in its $1 billion senior secured revolving ABL credit facility and $700 million senior secured term loan
- Helix Energy Solution Group in its $200 million public offering of convertible senior notes and entry into underlying capped call transactions
- Ivanhoe Capital Acquisition, a special purpose acquisition company, in its $3.6 billion business combination with SES Holdings Pte. Ltd
- Kimbell Royalty Partners in its:
- $404 million acquisition of Haymaker Minerals & Royalties and Haymaker Resources
- $175 million acquisition of Springbok Energy Partners, LLC and Springbok Energy Partners II
- $151.3 million acquisition of oil and natural gas mineral and royalty interests from EnCap Investments
- $107.8 million dropdown of oil and natural gas mineral and royalty interests from certain affiliated sellers
- $77.5 million public offering of common units
- $57 million public offering of common units
- $36.3 million acquisition of oil and natural gas mineral and royalty assets from Buckhorn Resources and its affiliates
- Pathfinder Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company, in its:
- $1.8 billion terminated business combination with ServiceMax
- $300 million initial public offering
- McDermott International in its:
- $6.0 billion business combination with Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V.
- $1.3 billion private placement of 10.625% senior notes
- $300 million private placement of redeemable preferred stock and warrants
- sale of the distribution and manufacturing arm of its U.S. pipe fabrication business
- sale of its fabrication, structural steel fabrication, piping, mechanical assembly and modularization business
- Northern Oil and Gas in its:
- public offering of 14,375,000 shares of common stock and a private placement of $550 million of new 8.125% senior notes in connection with its acquisition of certain non-operated natural gas assets in the Appalachian Basin from a subsidiary of Reliance Industries
- tender offer for any and all of its outstanding 8.50% senior secured second lien notes and related consent solicitation
- Swiftmerge Acquisition, a blank check company sponsored by Swiftmerge Holdings, in its $200 million initial public offering
- Tellurian in its issuance of $56 face amount unsecured note and a warrant to purchase up to 20,000,000 shares of Tellurian common stock
- The underwriters for Westlake Chemical Partners in its $50 million at-the-market continuous offering program
- Whiting Petroleum in its $6 billion merger of equals with Oasis Petroleum Inc.
- WorleyParsons Limited in its $3.2 billion acquisition of the energy, chemicals and resources division of Jacobs Engineering Group
