Tim Chandler

TIM CHANDLER’s practice principally involves representing funds, management teams, and strategics in their investments in “hard hat” industries throughout the world, including energy transition, oil & gas, power generation and transmission, energy storage, digital infrastructure, telecommunications, transportation, other infrastructure, minerals, manufacturing, and emerging technologies. He assists clients in a range of private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, project development, and financings. Tim has worked on transactions involving six continents and more than 40 countries. Tim is fluent in Portuguese and has lived and worked in Brazil. He can also read and write in Spanish.

Tim has most recently been featured in Infrastructure Investor, Texas Lawyer, Hart Energy, Oil & Gas Financial Journal, and others for his notable achievements and market insight.

“Incredibly bright and a great negotiator, he’s fantastic all around.”
Chambers USA 2021

Tim is ranked in Chambers USA for Texas Private Equity: Buyouts (2024–2025), Nationwide Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional) (2021–2025), and in Chambers Global for Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional) (USA, 2022–2025). Clients praise his legal prowess, saying “Tim’s best strength is that he can give his advice in the commercial context, which helps with complex issues. He makes sure we understand the risks and rewards of our decisions” (2024). Clients also note that he is “very client-focused and has a sharp skill set in the area” (2023). He also was recommended by Legal 500 Latin America for City Leaders: Houston (2025), Projects and Energy (2025–2026) and City Focus: Houston (2024–2026). Tim was recognized by Oil & Gas Investor as one of the 2019 “Forty under 40” in the Oil and Gas Industry and by Law360 as one of five 2019 “Rising Stars” in Energy. Tim has also been recognized in the 2019 Latin Lawyer 250 as a commended lawyer in the Energy practice area, in the 2014–2015 and 2017–2022 editions of Texas Super Lawyers magazine as a “Rising Star,” and in the 2014–2023 edition of IFLR1000 as a “Notable Practitioner” in the United States.

Tim has advised on a number of transactions that have been honored as “Deal of the Year,” as noted below. A selection of Tim’s representations include:

Energy Transition

• Denham Capital in its sale of a portion of its Rio Energy wind and solar portfolio company to Equinor.
• Fifth Wall in its infrastructure financing for SolarCycle’s first-of-a-kind Odessa, Texas recycling factory for solar systems.
• A renewable natural gas company in various acquisitions, financings, and other matters.
• HIG Capital in its acquisition of the Northern Biogas waste-to-renewable natural gas company. This deal was the winner of IJInvestor Awards “Deal of the Year,” Energy Transition Acquisition, North America, 2023.
• A private equity investor in connection with a preferred equity investment into an in-development blue hydrogen facility.
• AIMCo, GIC, Manulife, and Ontario Teachers in their investment into the ACES Delta I hydrogen project. This deal was the winner of IJGlobal Awards “Deal of the Year,” Oil & Gas – Hydrogen, 2022 and has been shortlisted for “Innovative Lawyers in Energy Transition,” 2023, by the Financial Times.
• The non-regulated arm of a regulated utility in wind and solar project acquisition and development.
• A private equity fund in various sales and acquisitions of Chilean solar projects.
• A private equity fund in multiparty negotiations with sponsors to further a geothermal energy project company.
• A wind developer in corporate structuring, Brazilian CCEAR (PPA) auction qualifying, project development, and negotiation of potential acquisitions.

Digital Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Transportation and Logistics

• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of Fleet Companies, a regional trailer dealership and leasing company. Headquartered in Tennessee, Fleet provides integrated offerings across dealership, leasing, drop yard, and maintenance operations.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its definitive documentation with American Tower subsidiary CoreSite to form a joint venture to develop, construct, and operate a new 18 megawatt data center campus in Denver, Colorado, with CoreSite operating the data center. 
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in a preferred equity investment into Logistec.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its US$2.5 billion investment into CoreSite, winner of the TMT Finance Data Center of the Year Award, 2023.
• A telecom company in development of various fiber optic cable lines.
• A telecom company in its debt and equity restructuring in bankruptcy.
• Evolve Transition Infrastructure LP in an investment into an electric vehicle charging and transportation joint venture.
• A private equity fund in a potential joint venture to build cell towers in Europe.
• A private equity fund in its investment in a rail terminal company.
• Facebook in its joint venture with Eutelsat Communications to open up internet access to developing markets.
• Partners Group in an investment in Seabras-1, the first direct subsea fiber optic cable between New York and São Paulo, which was recognized as the “Best Deal of 2015” by Global Trade Review and the “Greenfield Deal of the Year” by International Finance Magazine, World Finance and also won the “2016 LatinFinance Project Finance & Infrastructure Award.”
• A state-owned development company in the development of a railway in Mongolia.

Conventional Power Generation and Transmission

• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in the sale of the Canal and Bucksport thermal power stations to JERA.
• A private equity fund in a stalking horse bid to acquire an ERCOT thermal plant out of bankruptcy.
• A private equity fund in a potential investment in a gas-to-power project in Latin America.
• A private equity fund in the acquisition of an in-development power facility in ERCOT.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of the Canal 1 & 2 power facility from GenOn and the Canal 3 in-development power facility from NRG.
• A private equity fund in its investment in a multi-billion dollar, multi-asset power generation company.
• Partners Group in its acquisition of a 25% stake in Sentinel Energy Center.
• A developer in the development of cogeneration facilities in a Latin American country.
• A developer in the development and financing of power generation assets in Honduras.
• A transmission system development company in the acquisition of a transmission development project in the United States.

Midstream Oil & Gas

• Ares Management Corporation in its US$1.1 billion acquisition of Meade Pipeline Co LLC.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in the sale of its portfolio company, WTG Midstream Holdings LLC – the largest private Permian gas gathering and processing business with assets located in the core of the Midland Basin – to Energy Transfer LP. for US$3.25 billion.
• Stonepeak in its acquisition of 50% of the KAPS pipeline project.
• Stonepeak in its investment in and subsequent sale of its interest in the Whistler pipeline project.
  
• XRI in the acquisition of Hibernia’s water infrastructure and in the acquisition of Fountain Quail Water Treatment.
• Stonepeak in its acquisition of Oryx Midstream and subsequent joint venture of Oryx Midstream and Plains All American’s Permian assets. The latter deal was shortlisted for a “Deal of the Year Award,” 2021, by ACG Houston.
• WhiteWater Midstream in the acquisition of the Waha Gas Storage Facility and the Carlsbad Gateway Pipeline.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its multi-billion dollar investment in convertible preferred securities of several publicly traded companies.
• I Squared Capital in its US$460 million convertible equity investment in Venture Global LNG.
• I Squared Capital in the formation of a leading Delaware Basin midstream partnership with Blackstone Energy Partners and EagleClaw Midstream and the concurrent acquisition of Caprock Midstream and Pinnacle Midstream by EagleClaw, a transaction recognized as the 2019 “Energy, Power & Utilities Deal of the Year” by The Deal’s Middle Market Awards.
• GE EFS in the sale of ARC Logistics Partners and GE EFS’ interest in the Joliet terminal to Zenith Energy, which was recognized as the ACG 2018 “Downstream, Trading and Power Deal of the Year.”
• One of the investors in the acquisition of 90% of Petrobras’ midstream pipeline unit Nova Transportadora do Sudeste SA for approximately US$5.2 billion, which was recognized as the “2017 Latin Lawyer Private Equity Deal of the Year.”

Oilfield Services

• Hellaby Holdings in its sale of its Contract Resources division.
• A private equity-backed oilfield services company in negotiations to sell its U.S. assets.
• Carlson Capital in its investment in convertible preferred securities of ProPetro, an oilfield services company.
• Morgan Stanley Energy Partners in a majority equity investment in XRI Blue, a water supply and pipeline transportation company providing logistic solutions to upstream oil and gas producers.
• Bidders in distressed auctions of oilfield services assets.
• Dover in its acquisition of Accelerated Companies, a supplier of artificial lift and fluid handling solutions to oil and gas production markets, for US$430 million.
• Denham Capital in a US$100 million equity commitment by Natural Gas Partners to MS Energy Services, a directional drilling company that is majority-owned by Denham.
• A large Asian conglomerate in a purchase money loan for drilling equipment in Venezuela.
• An oil services company in a shelf offering.
• An international oilfield services company in its sale of a processing barge offshore Nigeria.

Upstream Oil & Gas

• Ensign Natural Resources in the sale of its Eagle Ford assets to Marathon Oil for US$3 billion.
• Ensign Natural Resources in its acquisitions of Eagle Ford assets from Pioneer Natural Resources and from Reliance.
• Laredo Petroleum in its US$130 million acquisition of acreage from Cordero Energy Resources.
• A private equity fund in a consortium devco to acquire and develop Texas upstream interests.
• Multiple private equity funds in their investments in new upstream-focused portfolio companies.
• Multiple management teams in their negotiations with private equity fund sponsors to form new portfolio companies.
• A private equity project company in the structuring of its investments in oil and gas assets in Colombia, Brazil, and Uruguay.
• A sovereign wealth fund in its investment in a Gulf of Mexico oil exploration and production company.
• A private equity fund in the acquisition of a joint venture interest in Greek oil and gas assets.
• A Chinese conglomerate in its investments in two joint ventures involving multi-billion dollar Brazilian oil and gas assets.

Trading

• EDF in its acquisition of U.S. retail power contracts from TransCanada.
• Macquarie Commodities in its acquisition of Cargill’s North American power and gas trading business.
• Macquarie Commodities in its acquisition of Cargill’s international petroleum trading business.
• A sponsor in a proposed management team buy-out of North American trading assets.
• A midstream oil and gas company with significant trading assets in a bid process for the sale of the company.
• A bidder for a large portfolio of international trading assets.

Refining and Petrochemicals

• A bidder for certain utility power generation assets.
• A Latin American petrochemical distributor in the sale of the Company to an international private equity fund.
• A processing facility project company in a long-term natural gas liquids purchase agreement.
• A group of high net-worth individuals in the potential multi-billion dollar acquisition of a California refinery.
• A private equity fund in the proposed sale of a refining company.
• A multi-national petrochemical company in a long-term agreement for the purchase of polymer-grade propylene.
• A refiner in connection with negotiating a potential joint venture relationship with a financial institution’s commodities group to monetize a terminal and associated storage facilities.
• Various purchasers in negotiating gas supply agreements.
• Various project companies in negotiating EPC and other contracts.
• A petrochemicals manufacturer in a proposed joint venture with another petrochemicals manufacturer to utilize mutually beneficial key assets held by each.

Mining

• Orion Resource Partners, a leading global investment firm specializing in the metals and materials critical to sustainable economic growth and energy transition, on its US$80M preferred equity investment in New Wave G.P., a global Brazilian technology holding company dedicated to developing innovative and sustainable solutions for the mining and metallurgical industries. 
• A private equity fund in a preferred equity investment into a coal mining project.
• A private equity fund in a preferred equity investment into a Latin American mining and processing project.
• A private equity fund in a sale of a minority interest in Latin American mining assets.
• A private equity fund in negotiating a management team’s equity stake in a mining portfolio company.
• A private equity fund in its acquisition of Latin American mining assets from a regional developer.
• A Chilean mining company in acquisitions of in-development mining projects.
• A private equity firm in the tax and exit-based restructuring of its investment in Brazilian mining concessions, including structuring to ensure compliance with Brazilian national security regulations.
• A private equity firm in structuring and negotiating a potential investment in a mining concern’s Chilean concessions.
• A private equity fund in restructuring and subsequently exiting on favorable terms its investment in an operator of coal mines and related infrastructure.
• A U.S.-based coal company in its initial public offering.

Manufacturing

• Orion Resource Partners in an investment into Uniformity Labs, an additive manufacturing company.
• An international steel company in the development of a proposed expansion to an existing steel plant.
• A Chinese manufacturer in the potential joint venture acquisition of a Brazilian manufacturer.
• A U.S.-based manufacturer in its potential acquisition of a Brazilian publicly traded company. 
• An international manufacturer in the acquisition of a family-owned manufacturing company in Brazil.
  
• An international steel company in its proposed 50% investment in a large Brazilian manufacturer.
• An international steel company in its consideration of a trade sale with a Venezuelan public agency.

• Member of the Houston Advisory Council of the Tahirih Justice Center
• J. Reuben Clark Law Society

• Represented an abused spouse in connection with immigration proceedings
• Represented an injured Afghani child being treated in the United States in connection with guardianship and immigration procedures
• Represented various immigrants in connection with U.S. immigration procedures
• Represented various charitable organizations in connection with organizational and contracting matters