Kevin Donovan is a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity practices and currently serves on the firm’s Recruiting Committee.

Kevin advises private companies, including private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, on a variety of complex transactional matters in the energy, infrastructure, and technology industries. His experience includes representing clients on transactional matters throughout the full corporate life cycle of a private company from formation to exit, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, and financing transactions, as well as on general corporate matters.

Prior to joining Latham full-time, Kevin was a summer associate and legal intern in Latham’s Houston office. 

While attending law school, he served as the podcast editor for the Houston Law Review, was a teaching assistant for contracts, torts, and constitutional law, and won the Lorance Thompson Negotiation Competition. Before attending law school, Kevin served as an Intelligence Officer for the US Army and deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and NATO’s Resolute Support Mission. 

Kevin’s experience includes advising:

M&A

  • CPP Investments and Encino Energy in the US$5.6 billion sale of Encino Acquisition Partners to EOG Resources
  • EnCap Energy Transition and PowerTransitions in the sale of PowerTransitions to Partners Group
  • McClatchy Media Company on its merger with accelerate360
  • Priority Power in its acquisition by I Squared Capital
  • Ceiba Energy and Denham Capital on the sale of a 1.6 GW capacity reserve contract to New Fortress Energy
  • Vencer Energy on its sale of assets to Civitas for US$2.15 billion
  • Blaize on its business combination with BurTech Acquisition Corp. with a pro forma enterprise value of US$894 million
  • An asset management firm in connection with its acquisition and securitization of approximately US$2 billion of proved developed producing natural gas assets
  • An industrial distribution supply company on its sale to a strategic private equity backed buyer 
  • A solar development company on the sale of its solar-powered electric generating facility with an expected nameplate capacity of 600 MWac to a strategic buyer

Equity Investments and Commitments

  • Lime Rock on its equity commitment to Athena Energy
  • Denham Capital on its partnership with Gray Oak Power
  • Post Oak Energy Capital on its equity commitments to Tiburon and Ichthys Energy
  • EnCap Energy Transition in its investment in Parliament Solar, a joint venture with Mercuria Energy, to construct and operate a 480 MWac solar project in Waller County, Texas

Other Matters

  • Energy Transfer in multiple notes offerings totaling over US$10 billion in aggregate
  • A polyethylene company on its US$1.4 billion private placement of senior notes
  • ExxonMobil on its carbon capture and storage agreement with Linde

Bar Qualification

  • Texas

Education

  • JD, University of Houston Law Center
    summa cum laude, Order of the Coif
  • BA in Political Science & Music, Providence College
    magna cum laude, Distinguished Military Graduate