Joseph S. Kmetz

Mr. Kmetz’ experience includes advising:

Oil & Gas

• Occidental Petroleum in its pending US$12 billion acquisition of CrownRock L.P.
• Liberty Resources in the sale of its midstream infrastructure and upstream assets in the Williston Basin
• ConocoPhillips in its acquisition of a 30% ownership stake and offtake arrangements with Sempra Infrastructure Partners at Port Arthur LNG Facility
• Arclight Capital Partners in connection with its investment and partial ownership arrangement in the Salamanca Production Facility in the Offshore Gulf of Mexico
• Crescent Midstream in various corporate governance matters and the negotiation and execution of confidentiality agreements, transportation service agreements, connection agreements, and similar commercial contracts
• Vitol, Inc. in connection with the formation of VTX Energy Partners
• Woodside in connection with a joint venture with Shell for deepwater Gulf of Mexico exploration and development projects
• Woodside in connection with a working interest selldown to Occidental Petroleum for certain deepwater Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases
• Magellan Midstream Partners in its US$18.8 billion merger with ONEOK, Inc. (environmental emphasis)
• Lucid Energy in its US$3.55 billion acquisition by Targa Resources Group (environmental emphasis)
• Pacific Drilling in the pre-arranged chapter 11 restructuring to address over US$1.1 billion of funded debt obligations and other legacy liabilities
• Superior Energy Services in its chapter 11 restructuring to address US$1.3 billion of funded debt obligations and other legacy liabilities
• Nine Point Energy in the US$250 million sale of its Williston Basin assets to Bowline Energy pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code
• MLCJR in oil and gas matters relating to its chapter 11 restructuring and asset divestiture process
• Navitas Petroleum in connection with various commercial agreements and the project development and financing of the Shenandoah Prospect located offshore in the Gulf of Mexico
• Chisholm Energy in its multi-well farmout and joint development arrangement with an undisclosed E&P company involving Permian Basin assets

Energy Transition and Renewables

• Chevron USA in its joint venture with Bunge North America to create renewable fuel feedstocks in the US
• Amp Americas in its acquisition of a waste into carbon-negative renewable natural gas and electricity assets from Vitol
• Harley-Davidson in connection with LiveWire’s US$1.77 billion deSPAC merger with AEA-Bridges Impact Corp. (environmental emphasis)

Technology

• Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. II in its US$4.3 billion deSPAC merger with Nextdoor, Inc.
• Aeva, Inc. in its US$1.7 billion deSPAC merger with InterPrivate Acquisition Corp
• SparkCognition in its acquisition of Integration Wizards, an artificial intelligence company
• Matterport, Inc. in its acquisition of Enview, Inc., a pioneer in scalable artificial intelligence for 3D spatial data