Michael J. Blankenship
Partner
Managing Partner, Houston & Co-Chair, Capital Markets Practice
Mike is the managing partner of Winston’s Houston office, co-chair of the firm’s Capital Markets Practice, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He focuses his practice on corporate finance and securities law, including securities offerings, public company advisory, special purpose acquisition company offerings, private equity and venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate representation.
Key Matters
Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.
IPO and Equity Offerings
- Represented the Conflicts Committee of Spectra Energy Partners, L.P. in the completed conversion of all of Enbridge Inc.’s incentive distribution rights and general partner economic interests in SEP into US$172.5M newly issued SEP common units
- Represented the joint placement agents, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Citi, and BMO Capital Markets in connection with the PIPE offering of Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp. II, a SPAC, in its definitive business combination with Embark Truck, Inc., a leading developer of autonomous software technology for the trucking industry. The transaction reflects an implied pro forma equity value of US$5.16B and enterprise value of US$4.55B
- Represented Founder SPAC in its US$316.25M initial public offering
- Represented Goldman Sachs & Co as underwriters in its US$304.75M initial public offering
- Represented Goldman Sachs & Co as underwriter's counsel in it's US$275M initial public offering
- Represented GIO World Health in its US$250M initial public offering
- Represented Goldman Sachs & Co as joint underwriter in it's US$240M initial public offering
- Represented Investcorp India Acquisition Corp. in it's US$225M intial public offering
- Represented a master limited partnership in its US$1.2B initial public offering of common units
- Represented underwriters in the US$1.4B initial public offering of limited partnership
- Represented a retail energy services company in its US$54M initial public offering of common stock
- Represented an exploration and production company in its US$48M offering of common stock
- Represented an exploration and development company in its US$742M public offering of common stock
- Represented master limited partnership in its launch of a US$74M at-the-market public offering of common units
- Represented underwriters to limited partnership in its US$1.3B public offering of common units
- Represented underwriters to master limited partnership in its US$330M public offering of common stock
- Represented underwriters to master limited partnership in its US$200M at the market public offering of common units
- Represented underwriters to master limited partnership in its US$370M public offering of common units
- Represented underwriters to a natural gas and petroleum exploration and production company in its public offering of 86,000,000 shares of common stock
Notes Offerings
- Represented the underwriters to a master limited partnership in its US$800M offering of senior notes
- Represented the underwriters to oil, natural gas, and geothermal drilling contractor in its US$500M offering of exchangeable senior unsecured notes
- Represented an exploration and production company in its a US$100M offering of senior secured notes
Mergers & Acquisitions Transactions
- Represented Saddle Butte Rockies Midstream, LLC and affiliates in its announced US$625M acquisition by Black Diamond Gathering, LLC, a newly formed joint venture by Noble Midstream Partners L.P. and Greenfield Midstream, LLC
- Represented an energy infrastructure company in its sale for a total purchase price of approximately US$3B
- Represented a major North American energy infrastructure company in its US$915M acquisition of a midstream master limited partnership
- Represented a midstream master limited partnership in its acquisition of a 49.9% interest in an interstate natural gas pipeline company from a major North American energy infrastructure company
Recent Experience
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