Adam Kowis
Partner
Houston
Adam focuses on complex energy and infrastructure transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, joint ventures, and project development.
Adam has significant experience in transactions across the energy and infrastructure sectors, including in oil and gas, hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, energy infrastructure, and core and core-plus infrastructure. He has advised clients across the full spectrum of energy and infrastructure assets, including upstream oil and gas assets, gathering and processing facilities, pipelines, carbon storage facilities, gas storage facilities, refined products terminals, toll roads, district energy systems, and water and waste facilities.
He regularly represents domestic and international energy companies, energy and infrastructure private equity funds, midstream companies, and industrial and environmental services companies, among others.
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Oil and Gas
- An international energy company in a swap transaction involving Marcellus and Utica upstream and midstream oil and gas assets valued in excess of $1 billion.
- An international energy company in a $900 million divestiture of Bakken shale assets.
- An international energy company in a $339 million acquisition of deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico assets from Cobalt International Energy and related joint venture and development arrangements.
- An international energy company in a $407 million divestiture of Marcellus shale assets.
- An international energy company in an acquisition of Eagle Ford shale assets and related joint venture and development arrangements.
- An international energy company in a $965 million acquisition of deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico assets.
- An international energy company in a divestiture of deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico assets.
- An international energy company in a $325 million divestiture of Eagle Ford shale assets.
- An energy-focused private equity fund in the $402 million divestiture of a portfolio company with operations in the San Juan Basin.
- A U.S. energy company in multiple asset swaps and farmout arrangements in the Permian Basin.
- A U.S. independent oil and gas company in a nearly $900 million divestiture of its Malaysian exploration and production business.
- An international energy company in a divestiture of its interest in a joint venture to develop oil shale assets in Utah.
- A U.S. energy company in negotiating its gas gathering and processing arrangements in the Delaware Basin.
- A privately held oil and gas company in negotiating its gas gathering arrangements in the Eagle Ford.
- An energy company in the acquisition of one of the largest independent propane distribution platforms in the western United States.
- An energy company in the acquisition of a residential and commercial propane distribution business in the Mid-Atlantic.
Infrastructure
- An international infrastructure company in the acquisition of 100% of the Northwest Parkway, a toll road in Denver, Colorado, for approximately $1.2 billion.
- An infrastructure-focused private equity fund in the acquisition of 100% of CampusParc, the concessionaire that manages, operates, and maintains the parking facilities at The Ohio State University’s campus in Columbus, Ohio.
- An international infrastructure company in the acquisition of a majority interest in the SH-288 Toll Lanes.
- An infrastructure-focused private equity fund and a construction company in their joint divestiture of Elizabeth River Crossings.
- An infrastructure-focused fund in the sale of a minority interest in the Indiana Toll Road.
- A water management, waste management, and energy services company in the $1.25 billion divestiture of its U.S. district energy business.
- A water management, waste management, and energy services company in the divestiture of its U.S. industrial cleaning business.
- An energy-focused private equity fund in the formation of a joint venture to develop and operate gathering and processing facilities in the Delaware Basin.
- An energy-focused private equity fund in the acquisition of a crude oil and gas gathering, transportation, and storage business operating in the Bakken and the Eagle Ford.
- An international energy company in a $400 million divestiture of its interest in a Utica midstream company.
- A midstream company in the divestiture of a natural gas transmission business serving Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
- A midstream company in the divestiture of a natural gas transmission business serving Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
- An energy-focused private equity fund in the acquisition of an interest in a regulated interstate refined products pipeline system in Washington and Oregon and related joint venture arrangements.
- A terminal, storage, and transportation company in a $275 million acquisition of two large-scale refined products and crude oil terminals in California.
- An energy-focused private equity fund in the acquisition of an interest in two large-scale refined product terminals in Washington and Oregon and related joint venture arrangements.
- An energy-focused private equity fund in the $160 million acquisition of an interest in two refined products and crude oil storage and terminaling facilities in Washington and Maryland.
- An energy-focused private equity fund in the $332 million acquisition of two natural gas storage facilities.
- An energy company in the acquisition of an interest in a natural gas storage facility in California.
Energy Transition and Renewable Energy
- An international energy company in its acquisition of a 25% interest in Bayou Bend CCS LLC, a Texas Gulf Coast carbon capture & sequestration project with nearly 140,000 acres of pore space for permanent carbon sequestration.
- An energy company in the CAD$1.05 billion acquisition of a leading North American low-carbon energy solutions provider focused on compressed natural gas, renewable natural gas, and hydrogen.
- A renewable energy developer in the divestiture of a development-stage wind power generation facility in Texas.
- An alternative energy company in the acquisition of a development-stage solar power generation facility in Texas.
- An energy-focused private equity fund in the acquisition of a development-stage wind power generation facility in Illinois.
- A renewable energy developer in the divestiture of a development-stage wind power generation facility in Texas.
- An energy-focused private equity fund in the divestiture of a development-stage wind power generation facility in Illinois.
- An international energy company in a swap transaction involving Marcellus and Utica upstream and midstream oil and gas assets valued in excess of $1 billion.
