Nathan Zhang

Nathan’s experience at and prior to joining Latham includes advising:

• Sixth Street on a strategic investment in Pinnacle Gas Services, a midstream subsidiary of Comstock Resources valued at US$2.2 billion that operates gathering and treating infrastructure servicing 540,000 net acres in the Western Haynesville
• Delfin Midstream on the US$5 billion first floating liquefaction facility in the United States and the largest FLNG project globally at the time of FID, with an expected export capacity of 4.4 million tonnes of LNG per year
• Aethon Energy on the US$7.5 billion sale of its Haynesville business to Mitsubishi
• CPPIB and Cordelio Power on a structured divestiture to Pattern Energy that includes a portfolio of 16 wind, solar, and storage projects in the US and Canada, expanding one of the largest independent clean energy infrastructure platforms in North America
• Pioneer Natural Resources on its:
  • US$7.6 billion acquisition of Parsley Energy
  • US$6.4 billion acquisition of DoublePoint Energy
• The Carlyle Group on 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) on the US$1.23 billion acquisition of two combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants totaling 1,708 MW from Dominion Energy
• Contango Oil & Gas on a US$5.7 billion merger with KKR’s Independence Energy
• Occidental Petroleum Corporation on:
  • Forming a joint venture with Ecopetrol that covers approximately 97,000 net acres in the Midland Basin, in consideration of Ecopetrol’s US$1.5 billion investment and commitment to jointly develop the assets
  • Spinning off its California oil and gas business into an independent and separately traded company, California Resources Corporation
  • Oxy Low Carbon Ventures on various commercial contracts to support its continuing development and commercialization of low-carbon technologies and businesses
• Vitol’s VTX on the US$245 million divesture of 46,000 surface acres in the Southern Delaware Basin to LandBridge
• SilverBow Resources on acquiring Eagle Ford Shale assets from Sundance Energy, with the total consideration comprising US$225 million in cash and 4.1 million shares of public stock
• Partners Group and OPTrust on a US$300 million investment in Superior Pipeline Company and on forming a joint venture
• A state gas distributor on negotiating an LNG supply agreement and a time charter party for a floating storage and offloading unit
• A US LNG startup on negotiating an LNG offtake agreement with a Chinese counterparty
• Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority on reconstructing and procuring renewable energy generation and energy storage resources in the aftermath of consecutive hurricane devastations
• TotalEnergies on the of US$980 million 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
• Chevron on acquiring offshore assets and related ongoing decommissioning operations in the Outer Continental Shelf
• Mitsui E&P USA on its US$207 million sale of certain Marcellus Shale assets, including interests in both upstream gas portfolio and significant midstream infrastructure, to Alta Resources Development
• Sundrop Fuels on the ongoing development, financing, and construction of a US$450 million advanced biofuels facility using natural gas and biomass to produce gasoline
• GE Energy Financial Services on a structured transaction with Diamond Offshore to buy and leaseback blowout-preventers, and GE Oil & Gas on a related contractual service arrangement to service the blowout-preventers
• QEP Resources on the combined US$772 million sales of separate oil and gas properties in the Cana-Woodford and Granite Wash plays in the Western Anadarko Basin in Texas and Oklahoma
• An international oil and gas company on selling an offshore production block in the People’s Republic of China
• Mitsui & Co. on acquiring DuPont’s global Kocide and ManKocide copper fungicide assets
• An international chemical company on selling a petrochemical facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana to a US subsidiary of a foreign chemical company
• An international chemical company on expanding a US$1.5 billion ethylene cracking plant in Texas