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I serve as leader of Husch Blackwell's national Energy and Natural Resources industry team. When providing service to clients, I apply my Wharton M.B.A. in delivering strategic advice to boards of directors and senior executives of publicly traded and private companies operating and investing in the energy industry. I structure mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and capital formation transactions in excess of $7 billion. My capital markets and corporate governance guidance is sought by boards of directors and special committees of public companies and by fund managers.

Listed skills include Mergers And Acquisitions, Securities Regulation, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, and 13 others.

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  Partner

  Husch Blackwell

  Aug 1995 - Present

  I have over 30 years experience as a Corporate attorney serving a wide range of industries. More recently, I serve as the leader of the firm’s Energy & Natural Resources industry team. Key representative experience includes:• Advised CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. in purchase of a $228 million liquids-gathering system near Pinedale, Wyo. The acquisition included negotiation and documentation of a $78 million public stock offering led by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, a $70 million credit facility from KeyBank, and a $30 million co-investment from a subsidiary of Prudential Insurance. • Advised CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust, Inc. in its $40 million acquisition of a petroleum products terminal in Portland, Oregon• Represented the independent directors on the Conflicts Committee of Inergy, L.P. in its merger with Inergy Holdings, L.P., creating an entity with $6 billion in enterprise value. • Represented the closed-end fund Tortoise MLP Fund Inc. in its $1.2 billion initial public offering. • Represented CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc. in the completion of its $125 million acquisition of an interstate natural gas pipeline company from its private equity backer with cash obtained in part from a secondary offering of common stock. • Led several public equity and debt offerings by real estate investment trusts and registered investment companies that invest in the energy industry and energy assets, including initial public offerings, direct offerings and at-the-market offerings totaling in excess of $4 billion.