Tim Chandler

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

• Represented Denham Capital in its sale of a portion of its Rio Energy wind and solar portfolio company to Equinor.
• Represented Fifth Wall in its infrastructure financing for SolarCycle’s first-of-a-kind Odessa, Texas recycling factory for solar systems.
• Represents a renewable natural gas company in various acquisitions, financings, and other matters.
• Represented 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.
• Represented a private equity investor in connection with a preferred equity investment into an in-development blue hydrogen facility.
• Represented 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.
• Represents the non-regulated arm of a regulated utility in wind and solar project acquisition and development.
• Represented a private equity fund in various sales and acquisitions of Chilean solar projects.
• Represented a private equity fund in multiparty negotiations with sponsors to further a geothermal energy project company.
• Represented a wind developer in corporate structuring, Brazilian CCEAR (PPA) auction qualifying, project development, and negotiation of potential acquisitions.

Digital Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Transportation and Logistics

• Represented 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. 
• Represented Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in a preferred equity investment into Logistec.
• Represented Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its US$2.5 billion investment into CoreSite, winner of the TMT Finance Data Center of the Year Award, 2023.
• Represents a telecom company in development of various fiber optic cable lines.
• Represented a telecom company in its debt and equity restructuring in bankruptcy.
• Represented Evolve Transition Infrastructure LP in an investment into an electric vehicle charging and transportation joint venture.
• Represented a private equity fund in a potential joint venture to build cell towers in Europe.
• Represented a private equity fund in its investment in a rail terminal company.
• Represented Facebook in its joint venture with Eutelsat Communications to open up internet access to developing markets.
• Represented 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.”
• Represented a state-owned development company in the development of a railway in Mongolia.

Conventional Power Generation and Transmission

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

Midstream Oil & Gas

• Represented 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.
• Represented Stonepeak in its acquisition of 50% of the KAPS pipeline project.
• Represented Stonepeak in its investment in and subsequent sale of its interest in the Whistler pipeline project.
  
• Represented XRI in the acquisition of Hibernia’s water infrastructure and in the acquisition of Fountain Quail Water Treatment.
• Represented 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.
• Represented WhiteWater Midstream in the acquisition of the Waha Gas Storage Facility and the Carlsbad Gateway Pipeline.
• Represented Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its multi-billion dollar investment in convertible preferred securities of several publicly traded companies.
• Represented I Squared Capital in its US$460 million convertible equity investment in Venture Global LNG.
• Represented 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.
• Represented 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.”
• Represented 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

• Represented Hellaby Holdings in its sale of its Contract Resources division.
• Represented a private equity-backed oilfield services company in negotiations to sell its U.S. assets.
• Represented Carlson Capital in its investment in convertible preferred securities of ProPetro, an oilfield services company.
• Represented 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.
• Represented bidders in distressed auctions of oilfield services assets.
• Represented 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.
• Represented 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.
• Represented a large Asian conglomerate in a purchase money loan for drilling equipment in Venezuela.
• Represented an oil services company in a shelf offering.
• Represented an international oilfield services company in its sale of a processing barge offshore Nigeria.

Upstream Oil & Gas

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

Trading

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

Refining and Petrochemicals

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

Mining

• Represented 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. 
• Represented a private equity fund in a preferred equity investment into a coal mining project.
• Represented a private equity fund in a preferred equity investment into a Latin American mining and processing project.
• Represented a private equity fund in a sale of a minority interest in Latin American mining assets.
• Represented a private equity fund in negotiating a management team’s equity stake in a mining portfolio company.
• Represented a private equity fund in its acquisition of Latin American mining assets from a regional developer.
• Represented a Chilean mining company in acquisitions of in-development mining projects.
• Represented 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.
• Represented a private equity firm in structuring and negotiating a potential investment in a mining concern’s Chilean concessions.
• Represented a private equity fund in restructuring and subsequently exiting on favorable terms its investment in an operator of coal mines and related infrastructure.
• Represented a U.S.-based coal company in its initial public offering.

Manufacturing

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

• 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

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