John Brannan III

John’s experience at Sidley includes the following representative matters:

• Represented Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Mitsui) in the acquisition of approx. 92% working interest in an unconventional gas asset in South Texas from the operator, Silver Hill Eagle Ford E&P, LLC, a subsidiary of Silver Hill Energy Partners, LP.
• Represented Denham Capital’s portfolio company Serra Verde in its US$150 million investment by Vision Blue Resources and The Energy & Minerals Group.
• Represented Ensign Natural Resources LLC, a private equity portfolio company, in connection with the US$3.0 billion sale of its Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas assets to Marathon Oil Company (NYSE: MRO).
• Represented Tailwater Capital LLC (“Tailwater”) in connection with a Tailwater led consortium’s acquisition of Verdad Resources Holdings LLC, an independent oil and gas exploration and development company with oil and gas assets in Colorado and Wyoming.
• Represented Tellurian Production LLC (TPC) in connection with its agreement to purchase Haynesville Shale natural gas assets from privately held EnSight IV Energy Partners, LLC and EnSight Haynesville Partners, LLC.
• Represented Kimmeridge Energy Management Company, LLC, in its joint venture with Desert Royalty Company, LLC to create Desert Peak Minerals which created the largest Delaware Basin pure-play mineral and royalty company, with over 70,000 net royalty acres on a 1/8th royalty-adjusted basis (NRAs) across eight counties in west Texas and southeast New Mexico.
• Represented BP America Production Company in the sale of certain upstream oil and natural gas properties in Cleveland and McClain Counties, Oklahoma (SWOOP area) to Lime Rock Resources.
• Represented Anadarko Petroleum Corporation in the sale of certain upstream and midstream assets in the Marcellus Shale to Alta Marcellus Development LLC for approximately US$1.24 billion.
• Represented an energy-focused private equity firm in the acquisition and divestiture of certain upstream oil and gas assets in Texas.
• Represented Anadarko Petroleum Corporation in the sale of certain upstream assets in the Eagle Ford to WildHorse Resource Development Corporation for an aggregate consideration of US$625 million.
• Represented a private equity fund in backing a new management team and forming a new upstream-focused portfolio company.

• The American Indian Law Review, Articles Editor 
• Houston Young Lawyers Association (2016)
• Phi Delta Phi