Nathan Zhang

Nathan’s experience includes the following representative matters:

• Pioneer Natural Resources in its acquisition of Parsley Energy for a total consideration of $US7.6 billion*
• Pioneer Natural Resources in its acquisition of DoublePoint Energy for a total consideration of $US6.4 billion*
• The Carlyle Group in its acquisition from Noble Environmental Power of a 612 MW wind generation portfolio, which at the time of acquisition was the largest operating wind platform in New York and produced 29% of the state’s wind power*
• Starwood Energy (Lotus Infrastructure) in its acquisition of two combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants totaling 1,708 MW from Dominion Energy for $US1.23 billion*
• Contango Oil & Gas in a $US5.7 billion merger with KKR’s Independence Energy*
• Occidental Petroleum Corporation in the formation of a joint venture with Ecopetrol that covers approximately 97,000 net acres in the Midland Basin, in consideration of Ecopetrol’s $US1.5 billion investment and commitment to jointly develop the assets*
• Oxy Low Carbon Ventures in various commercial contracts to support its continuing development and commercialization of low-carbon technologies and businesses*
• Vitol’s VTX in its divestiture of 46,000 surface acres in the Southern Delaware Basin to LandBridge for a total consideration of $US245 million*
• SilverBow Resources in an acquisition of Eagle Ford Shale assets from Sundance Energy, with the total consideration comprising of $US225 million in cash and 4.1 million shares of public stock*
• Partners Group and OPTrust in a $US300 million investment in Superior Pipeline Company and the formation of a joint venture*
• State gas distributor in negotiating an LNG supply agreement and a time charter party for a floating storage and offloading unit*
• US start-up LNG company in its negotiation of an LNG offtake agreement with a Chinese counterparty*
• Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority in their reconstruction and procurement of renewable energy generation and energy storage resources in the aftermath of consecutive hurricane devastations*
• TotalEnergies in the acquisition of upstream assets in the Barnett Shale through exercise of preferential right, together with renegotiation (buy-down) of fixed payment obligations under long term gas gathering contracts, for total consideration of $US980 million*
• Chevron in the acquisition of offshore assets and related ongoing decommissioning operations in the Outer Continental Shelf*
• Mitsui E&P USA in its $US207 million sale of certain Marcellus Shale assets, including interests in both upstream gas portfolio and significant midstream infrastructure, to Alta Resources Development*
• Sundrop Fuels in the ongoing development, financing, and construction of a $US450 million advanced biofuels facility utilizing natural gas and biomass to produce gasoline*
• GE Energy Financial Services in a structured transaction with Diamond Offshore to buy and leaseback blowout-preventers, and represented GE Oil & Gas in a related contractual service arrangement to service the blowout-preventers*
• QEP Resources, Inc. in two separate sales of oil and gas properties in the Cana-Woodford and Granite Wash plays in the Western Anadarko Basin in Texas and Oklahoma for a combined value of approximately $US772 million*
• International oil and gas company in its sale of an offshore production block in the People’s Republic of China*
• Occidental Petroleum Corporation in the spin-off of its California oil and gas business into an independent and separately traded company, California Resources Corporation*
• Mitsui & Co., Ltd. in the acquisition of DuPont’s global Kocide and ManKocide copper fungicide assets*
• International chemical company in its sale of a petrochemical facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana to a U.S. subsidiary of a foreign chemical company*
• International chemical company in its expansion of a $US1.5 billion ethylene cracking plant in Texas*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham