Kelli Sims is an associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Project Development & Finance practices, and a member of the firm’s Energy Industry Group. She focuses on private equity, M&A transactions and complex commercial transactions, primarily for clients in the upstream and midstream oil and gas sectors. Her experience includes asset and equity acquisitions and divestitures, development and participation transactions, farmins, farmouts, joint operating agreements, and joint venture transactions.

• Orion Mine Finance on its agreement to acquire Occidental Petroleum Corporation’s (Oxy) Wyoming, Colorado and Utah Land Grant assets for about $1.33 billion
• Ecopetrol on its joint venture with Occidental Petroleum Corporation to develop 97,000 net acres in the Permian Basin in West Texas
• DTE Pipeline in its $2.25 billion acquisition of a gathering system in Louisiana and its acquisition of an additional stake in a pipeline in West Virginia
• Oryx Midstream in its joint venture with Rattler Midstream to acquire Reliance Gathering
• DTE Midstream in connection with the acquisition of a 30 percent stake in Stonewall Gas Gathering for $275.3 million, bringing its total ownership interest in the asset to 85 percent
• GulfTex Energy in the sale of approximately 13,000 acres and 7,600 boed in the Eagle Ford to INPEX Americas, Inc.
• Oryx Midstream, the largest privately held midstream crude operator in the Permian Basin, in their $3.6 billion sale to Stonepeak Infrastructure
• Privately owned independent exploration and production company in the divestiture of its business for $2.4 billion
• Reliance Holdings USA, Inc. in the divestiture of its Eagle Ford Shale midstream business for $2.15 billion
• Oklahoma-based independent E&P company in the acquisition of assets in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma
• Independent energy company in the acquisition of Marcellus assets for approximately $350 million
• Houston-based energy company in the acquisition of oil and gas assets in the Anadarko basin for $1.95 billion
• Oil and gas production company in the sale of producing assets in Texas and New Mexico for a combined price in excess of $700 million
• Independent E&P company in a multi-tranche drilling joint venture transaction to fund the developmentof a significant STACK position
• Pivotal Petroleum Partners in the negotiation of a joint development transaction covering leasehold interests in Atoka, Coal, Hughes and Pittsburg Counties, Oklahoma
• Investor in a privately-owned company in the contribution of 140,000 net acres of Merge/SCOOP/STACK assets to a joint venture entity
• Privately-owned company in the divestiture of Permian Basin assets for approximately $400 million
• Private equity firm and its portfolio company in acquisition of oil and gas assets in Martin County, Texas
• Publicly-traded company in the acquisition of Permian Basin acreage in Lea County, New Mexico and Reeves County, Texas
• Houston-based private equity firm and its portfolio company in a sale of producing Mississippian Osage assets
• Casillas Petroleum Resources Partners LLC in the purchase of oil and gas assets for $106 million
• Private equity firm and its portfolio company in the negotiation of a drilling joint venture transaction covering acreage in the STACK play
• Publicly-traded energy company in the divestiture of Williston Basin producing oil and gas assets for a purchase price of $1.4 billion

Professional Affiliations

• Board of Editors Member, Energy Law Advisor
• Member, State Bar of Texas
• Member, Houston Bar Association, Oil Gas and Mineral Law Section
• Member, Houston Young Lawyers Association