TRENT BRIDGES is a partner in Sidley’s Houston office. His practice focuses on a wide variety of energy-related transactions, infrastructure development projects, and investments. Trent has extensive experience advising on acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, greenfield projects, and investments in the midstream, upstream, and services sectors. He has also represented clients in other industries, including healthcare, consumer goods, and technology.
Prior to joining Sidley, Trent served as an officer and in managing legal roles for Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE: MMP), where he worked directly with its board of directors and executive management team on numerous significant M&A transactions and commercial matters, including negotiating and drafting purchase and sale agreements, joint venture arrangements, terminalling and offtake contracts, and pipeline throughput commitments and related tariffs for the development, construction, ownership, and operation of new and expanded pipeline systems, inland storage and marine export terminals, condensate splitter facilities, and other midstream assets.
合伙人律师
Trent O. Bridges
Energy
M&A
M&A
经验
- 代理事宜
Prior to joining Sidley, Trent’s representative matters at Magellan included:
- Sale to a global private equity company of a near 25% membership interest in MVP Terminalling refined products marine terminal joint venture for US$270 million and related restructuring of such joint venture.
- Sale to Buckeye Partners, L.P. of refined products marine terminals located in New Haven, CT, Wilmington, DE, and Marrero, LA for US$250 million.
- BridgeTex Pipeline joint venture with Occidental Petroleum to construct, own and operate a 440-mile crude oil pipeline from the Permian Basin in Texas to the Houston, TX Gulf Coast area.
- Restructuring of BridgeTex Pipeline joint venture to effect the sale of Occidental Petroleum’s 50% membership interest to Plains All-American for US$1.1 billion; acquisition by Magellan of BridgeTex’s 40-mile pipeline system in the Houston, TX Gulf Coast area for US$75 million.
- Joint sale with Plains All American to Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System of a combined 50% membership interest in BridgeTex Pipeline joint venture for US$1.4 billion.
- Saddlehorn Pipeline joint venture with Plains All-American to construct, own, and operate a 660-mile crude oil pipeline from the DJ Basin in Colorado to Cushing, OK.
- Sale to Anadarko Petroleum of a 20% membership interest in Saddlehorn Pipeline joint venture and related restructuring of such joint venture.
- Conversion of Saddlehorn pipeline system to an undivided joint interest ownership structure with an affiliate of NGL Energy Partners acquiring an approximately 45% interest in the system.
- Expansion of Saddlehorn pipeline system, long-term re-contracting with Saddlehorn anchor shippers and joint sale with Plains All-American to an entity controlled by Noble Midstream Partners of a combined 20% membership interest in Saddlehorn Pipeline joint venture for US$155 million.
- Construction of approximately US$300 million condensate splitter and related terminal assets in Corpus Christi, TX, supported by long-term Tolling Agreement with Trafigura AG as sole off-take counterparty.
- Seabrook Logistics joint venture with LBC Terminals to construct, own, and operate an approximately US$500 million crude oil marine export terminal and related pipeline assets in Houston, TX Gulf Coast area.
- HoustonLink Pipeline joint venture with TransCanada to construct, own, and operate an approximately US$50 million crude oil pipeline in Houston, TX Gulf Coast area.
- Acquisition from a pipeline transportation company of West Columbia pipeline in Houston, TX Gulf Coast area.
- Agreement with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to launch a crude oil storage futures program and a crude oil physical futures contract (HOU) deliverable at Magellan’s East Houston terminal.
Prior to joining Sidley and his work at Magellan, Trent’s representative matters in private practice included:
- Represented an Oklahoma-based oil and gas production and exploitation company in over US$2 billion of public debt offerings and related exchange offers, tender offers, and redemptions.
- Represented an Oklahoma-based oil and gas production and exploitation company in a US$345 million private placement of its common stock to a private equity fund.
- Represented an Oklahoma-based oil and gas production and exploitation company in the divestiture of its electric submersible pump, chemical and supply divisions in a series of transactions with multiple counterparties.
- Represented an Oklahoma-based publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company in debt and equity financing matters.
- Represented The Oklahoma Publishing Company in its acquisition of a controlling equity interest in Pavestone Company, a national manufacturer of concrete landscaping products.
- Represented a physician-owned surgical hospital in its reorganization and sale to a national operator of ambulatory surgical centers and surgical hospitals.
- Represented a privately held Oklahoma auto parts distributor in its acquisition of a powertrain parts and accessories distribution business in North Carolina and Virginia.
- Represented a public university in a public-private partnership (PPP) to implement a long-term operations and management arrangement for its utilities assets.
- Represented the shareholders of a California-based manufacturer of casino games in the sale of all the company’s stock to a publicly traded Canadian company.
- Represented a publicly traded company in its acquisition of a multi-state sleep disorder business.
- Represented the shareholders of an Oklahoma-based industrial supply distribution company in the sale of the corporation to a private equity fund.
- Represented a food industry company in the acquisition of all assets associated with two large food processing plants.
*Not yet admitted to practice in Texas.
证书
执业资格及证书
- Oklahoma
学历和教育
- University of Tulsa College of Law, 法学博士, 2008 (with highest honors, Order of the Curule Chair)
- University of Oklahoma, 文学学士, 1999