Aristo Mineral Investments is the General Partner and Investment Manager of Aristo Mineral Fund (AMF), a unique investment strategy with institutional standards designed and underwritten by real assets to create mineral and royalty portfolios. AMF provides low-risk cash flows, maximum exposure to commodity prices without the ongoing capital requirements of traditional oil and gas investing.

Christopher Phillips is the President & CEO of Phillips Energy Partners a Mineral and Royalty Acquisition Fund with interests in 24 States and thousands of leases throughout the United States. Chris started his mineral business after recognizing the opportunity to build a business out of what was traditionally a byproduct/hobby investment or side investment for those already in the industry. With little transparency or liquidity he found it was one of the few areas in Energy that was still highly fractionated, offered a financial arbitrage without a well thought out, sophisticated strategy and large amounts of devoted capital. Prior to starting Phillips Royalty Partners (the predecessor of PEP) in 2005 Chris spent 3 years in Dallas with Cornerstone Natural Gas as a trader. Cornerstone was sold to El Paso at which point the founders started Energy Transfer Company now one of the largest MLP pipeline companies. In 1993 he moved to Houston and joined Texla Energy Management. Texla is a natural gas marketing and trading company started in 1991 by Lacy Williams Jr. In the twelve years Chris spent with Texla they grew from 3 employees representing 4 oil and gas companies to 15 employees representing over 300 independent oil and gas companies producing over half a BCF of gas per day.Phillips Energy Partners was formed in 2006 with a $5MM investment from the private equity firm Encap Investments. Encap is the leading private equity provider for upstream energy investments with over $7.5 billion under management. PEP achieved 2x and 33% IRR in 18 months on the first fund and since Encap has committed an additional $390 Million of capital to PEP over the last 8 years.

Managed Natural Gas Hedging and Marketing for 40+ independent Oil and Gas Companies

Traded Texas Intrastate Gas Market and Originated Mid-Stream Pipeline Opportunities