Heather M. Palmer

• Represented Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets Inc. in its sale of 100% of the membership interests of Leaf River Energy Center LLC to a subsidiary of New Jersey Resources Corporation for $367.5 million
• Represented General Electric Company in connection with its agreement to sell its intelligent environments unit, Current, powered by GE, to American Industrial Partners, a New York-based private equity firm.
• Represented OMERS Private Equity, the defined benefit pension plan for Ontario’s municipal employees, in its sale of MatrixCare Holdings Inc. to ResMed Operations Inc. for US$750 million. 

Prior to joining Sidley Heather worked on the following representative matters:

• Represented Great Plains Energy Inc. in a $14 billion merger with Westar Energy, Inc.
• Represented New York Stock Exchange listed energy company in the construction, permitting and operation of LNG import/export facilities in Sabine Pass, Louisiana and Corpus Christi, TX.
• Advised an international drilling company and a major independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company on environmental and safety requirements in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. 
• Represented Talen Energy Corporation in a $1.175 billion acquisition of MACH Gen, LLC, the holding company of three natural gas-fired power plants located in New York, Massachusetts and Arizona with a total capacity of over 2,500 MW.
• Represented a Fortune 500 company in a $2.16 billion acquisition of a major manufacturer of chemicals used in operating oil and gas wells.
• Represented Apache Corporation in a $1.4 billion sale of approximately 90,000 net acres in southern Louisiana and 115,000 net acres in the Anadarko Basin to Tapstone Energy.
• Represented Global Infrastructure Partners in a preferred equity investment of up to $250 million in Caprock Midstream to fund the expansion of Caprock's natural gas gathering and processing assets in the Permian Basin.
• Represented Pioneer Natural Resources Company in acquisition of 28,000 acres in the Midland Basin from Devon Energy Corporation for $435 million.
• Represented Chevron Corporation in sale of a natural gas liquid logistics system to Phillips 66 Partners LP.
• Represented Arroyo Energy Investment Partners LLC in acquisition of the Broad River Energy Center, an 847 MW natural gas-fueled electric generation plant located in Gaffney, South Carolina from affiliates of Energy Capital Partners.
• Represented Rockland Capital, LLC in acquisition of an 85 MW combined cycle cogeneration facility located in Nevada and a 121 MW dual-fuel combined cycle facility in Florida from affiliates of Quantum Utility Generation, LLC.
• Represented Chevron Corporation in sale to ONEOK Partners, L.P. of the Mesquite Pipeline and its 80 percent interest in the West Texas LPG Pipeline Limited Partnership for approximately $800 million (2014)
• Represented Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas, LLC in $102 million sale of an oil and gas mineral asset package, which includes 1.2 million gross mineral acreage in 20 states and an estimated production of 850 BOE/D, to Black Stone Minerals, L.P.
• Represented Rockland Capital, LLC in acquisition of the Michigan Power Generating Facility, a 125 MW natural gas-fired, combined-cycle electric generation facility in Ludington, Michigan from affiliates of ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC.
• Represented Integrys Energy Group, Inc. in sale of a portfolio of over 50 distributed solar projects to TerraForm Power, LLC.
• Represented Optim Energy LLC in Chapter 11 proceedings, including the $126 million sale in a bankruptcy auction of the 305 MW coal-fired Twin Oaks Plant to a unit of Blackstone Group LP and the confirmation of a plan of reorganization for its other operational power plants.
• Represented La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec with investment of up to approximately $593 million in AES US Investments, Inc. and IPALCO Enterprises, Inc., subsidiaries of the AES Corporation and parent companies of Indianapolis Power & Light Company, for an aggregate direct and indirect interest in IPALCO of up to 30 percent.
• Represented Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC in purchase of northeast Pennsylvania gathering assets from Southwestern Energy Company for $500 million.
• Represented Chevron Pipe Line Company and Chevron Midstream Pipelines LLC in sale of Gulf Coast natural gas pipeline assets to EnLink Midstream Partners, LP and EnLink Midstream, LLC for $235 million.
• Represented Chevron Pipe Line Company in sale of Chevron Petrochemical Pipeline LLC, which owns the Evangeline ethylene pipeline system for $295 million, to Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP.
• Represented Pioneer Natural Resources Company in the sale of all of its assets in the Hugoton field for $340 million.
• Represented Phillips 66 in sale of Phillips Specialty Products Inc., a flow improver business, to Berkshire Hathaway in a deal valued at approximately $1.4 billion.
• Represented energy and chemical companies in negotiating reduced settlement amounts for clients in enforcement actions brought by the EPA and states under RCRA, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), and the Clean Air Act (CAA). 
• Represented major energy and chemical companies with obtaining Section 404/Section 10 permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), preparing permittee-responsible mitigation plans, and negotiating contracts for compensatory wetlands mitigation in connection with the construction of major energy projects and chemical facilities in Texas and Louisiana.
• Represented manufacturers, chemical producers and energy companies and acted as counsel to clients named as potentially responsible parties under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) at state and federal Superfund sites in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, including serving as common counsel in connection with the Many Diversified Interests Superfund Site in Houston, TX.

Represented a local nonprofit arts organization in the purchase of a Brownfield site for redevelopment in Houston, TX.

• Alexis de Tocqueville Society member, United Way of Greater Houston
• Women’s Initiative member, United Way of Greater Houston
• Law Initiative steering committee member, United Way of Greater Houston
• Sustaining Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
• Immediate Past Chair, Houston Bar Association, Environmental Law Section