G. Alan Rafte

Recent engagements have included acquisitions of upstream oil and gas assets and gas storage facilities by private equity firms; project financings of pipeline and power generation facilities; sales and purchases of power generation facilities; sales and purchases of commodity trading businesses and commodity trading positions; and private equity investments in joint ventures for oil and gas development projects.

Representative Matters

Apache Corporation in the $7 billion acquisition of BP's oil and gas operations, acreage and infrastructure the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico and in Egypt's Western Desert, as well as BP's upstream natural gas business in western Alberta and British Columbia the acquiror of a partnership interest in a partnership that owned a number of power generating facilities

Legend Natural Gas (a Riverstone affiliate) in the $900 million purchase of all of the Barnett Shale asset of Range Resources Corporation

EIG Global Energy Partners in a $220 million equity investment and $200 million senior debt facility for Blackbrush Oil  & Gas LP and TexStar Midstream Services LP

Alinda Capital Partners in the $505 million acquisition of an entity that owns a pair of gas storage facilities in close proximity to the Barnett Shale and related storage contracts

Ruby Pipeline LLC and its parent, El Paso Corporation, in the project financing for the completion of construction and permanent project financing for the 675-mile natural gas pipeline running through Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, and Oregon, a joint venture between El Paso Corporation and Global Infrastructure Partners

EnerVest, Ltd. in the successful $100 million stalking horse bid in the CDX Gas, LLC bankruptcy case

A private oil and gas operator in connection with the formation of a joint venture with a Fortune 500 E&P company for which the oil and gas operator contributed a portion of its 400,000 net acre Marcellus shale leasehold interest in exchange for the funding of the costs and expenses to drill and develop the acreage

A private oil and gas operator in connection with the formation of a joint venture with a Fortune 500 E&P company for the acquisition, construction, development and operation of certain current and future midstream and gathering assets in connection with the development of at least 400,000 net mineral acres in Marcellus shale leasehold

A group of hedge funds and financial institutions in connection with the purchase of a dollar denominated production payment from ATP Oil & Gas on offshore Gulf of Mexico oil and gas properties

UBS AG and DB Energy in connection with a $1.2 billion volumetric production payment for Chesapeake Energy Corporation, a transaction that was awarded Energy Risk magazine's Deal of the Year

JPMorgan Ventures Energy Corporation in a secured gas hedge used to facilitate the purchase of a volumetric production payment (VPP) from Chesapeake Energy Corporation

The TCW Group, Inc. in connection with the $200 million acquisition of Piñon Gathering Company, LLC from a subsidiary of SandRidge Energy, Inc

Alinda Capital Partners in the $1.1 billion Regency Haynesville joint venture with Regency Gas Services LP

Rockland Capital Corporation and GSO Capital in the acquisition of lessee interests in the 1,560 MW Midland Cogeneration Project from CMS and El Paso, the restructuring of the lease and other project arrangements

A strategic participant in its bid for British Gas's portfolio of gas-fired power generation assets located in New England, ultimately purchased by a private equity fund for approximately $450M

Rockland Power Partners, L.P. in connection with an equity investment in, and becoming the asset manager of the La Paloma generating facility, a 1,022 MW natural gas-fired, combined-cycle electric generating facility

Entergy Arkansas, Inc. in the $210 million acquisition of the  789 MW natural gas fired electric generation facility

A large financial institution in a power hedge for a project-financed power plant located in New York secured by a shared first lien on the project

A large financial institution  in a five-year power supply and sleeving facility for a retail electric provider in ERCOT and PJM secured by a first lien on all assets of the company