Steven Tredennick

STEVEN TREDENNICK has over 25 years of experience advising private equity, infrastructure and other financial investors, public companies, and private companies actively engaging or investing in the infrastructure and energy industries. He represents clients throughout North America and Europe with respect to their interests in the energy, energy transition, and industrial decarbonization sectors, including water, waste, oil and gas, power, telecommunications, waste and water, and other infrastructure sectors.

He also has extensive experience spanning the energy spectrum, from the upstream oil and gas sector (onshore and offshore) to the midstream sector (natural gas, crude oil, liquids and CO2 pipelines processing facilities, and gas and liquids storage assets) to the downstream sector (refining, marketing, and distribution), as well as oilfield service, electric power, energy-as-a-service, and energy trading. Steven also has deep experience with joint ventures and governance matters with respect to limited liability companies and partnerships, including the formation, merger, acquisition, dissolution, or restructuring of all forms of alternative business entities.

Steven’s experience extends to corporate finance matters, joint ventures, and governance matters with respect to limited liability companies and partnerships, including the formation, merger, acquisition, dissolution, or restructuring of all forms of alternative business entities. He also counsels clients on joint operating agreements, participation agreements, unit and unit operating agreements, joint development agreements, and farmouts.

Steven has consistently been recognized as a “Leading Lawyer” for M&A and Private Equity in the United States by Euromoney's Expert Guide (2018–2023).

Before joining the firm, Steven led the Houston corporate practice of another prominent global law firm. 

• The Special Committee of Falcon Minerals Corp., owner of mineral, royalty, and over-riding royalty interests covering over 21,000 net royalty acres in the Eagle Ford Shale and Austin Chalk in South Texas, in connection with its merger with Desert Peak Minerals.
• DIF Capital Partners, through its DIF Infrastructure Fund VI, on its acquisition of Bernhard, LLC, the largest privately-owned Energy-as-a-Service solutions company in the United States, from an affiliate of Bernhard Capital Partners.
• Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation in connection with the sale of its International-Matex Tank Terminals business to an affiliate of Riverstone Holdings, Inc. for US$2.67 billion, and including assumed debt of approximately US$1.11 billion.
• Delek Group in its Participation Agreement and Line of Credit with GulfSlope Energy, Inc. covering various oil and gas drilling sites in the Gulf of Mexico, including Delek Group's acquisition of approximately 26% of the common stock of GulfSlope.
• Delek Group in its acquisition of a 22.45% working interest in the Caesar Tonga field in the Gulf of Mexico from Shell for US$965 million, and a long-term purchase agreement with Shell Trading (US) Company for produced oil.

The above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.

• American Bar Association
• Houston Bar Association
• Institute for Energy Law, Advisory Board Member
• ACG Houston, Past President (2017–2018)