Stephen Grant
Biography
Stephen Grant is a partner in Haynes Boone’s Capital Markets and Securities Practice Group in the Houston office.
Stephen focuses his practice on corporate finance and securities law, including securities offerings, M&A, private equity transactions, and general corporate representation. He has extensive experience advising companies, investment banks and underwriters in connection with public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, including SEC registered capital markets transactions, private placements and Rule 144A/Reg S issuances. Stephen counsels public company clients and their boards on corporate governance matters, Exchange Act reporting and SEC compliance. In addition, he regularly represents companies in strategic investments and M&A transactions, both public and private. He also works with private equity investors, their portfolio companies, and a variety of other public and private companies.
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Capital Markets
- Underwriters to QEP Midstream Partners, LP in its $483 million initial public offering of common units
- Underwriters to Jones Energy, Inc. in its $187 million initial public offering of common stock
- Vanguard Natural Resources, LLC in its public offerings of Series A, B, and C Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Units
- New Source Energy Partners, L.P. in its public offering of Series A Cumulative Convertible Preferred Units
- Several issuers and selling stockholder in ATM offerings of common and preferred stock
- FMC Technologies, Inc. in its $800 million offering of investment-grade senior notes
- Chaparral Energy, Inc. in its $300 million offering of senior debt securities
- Underwriters to SandRidge Energy, Inc. in its $1.1 billion offering of senior notes
- Represented Liberty Energy Inc. in a $770 million and a $525 million convertible notes offering.
- Represented Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. in exchange offer for convertible notes and concurrent registered direct offering.
- Represented Liberty Energy Inc. in a secondary underwritten public offering of shares by Schlumberger Inc.
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Represented Canadian oilfield services company in connection with $275 million acquisition of U.S.-based international services company
- Represented a privately owned partnership in connection with the $58 million sale of water related assets to the City of Hutto, Texas
- Energy Transfer Partners in its $2 billion acquisition of a 50% interest in the Florida Gas Transmission pipeline system from Energy Transfer Equity
- Represented privately held LNG solutions company in connection with strategic reverse merger acquisition of a public company
- Represented conflicts committee of a public MLP in going-private merger transaction
- Represented AleAnna Energy, LLC in a merger with Swiftmerge Acquisition Corp., resulting in AleAnna, Inc. as a public company.
- Represented Park Cities Asset Management in its take-private acquisition of Elevate Credit, Inc.
- Represented IKAV Energy Inc. in its $770 million transaction involving oil and gas assets in the San Juan Basin with Mach Natural Resources LP.
- Chesapeake Energy Corporation in its $1.425 billion divestiture of company interests of various subsidiaries holding upstream oil and gas assets in the Brazos Valley region of the Eagle Ford Shale to Wildfire Energy I LLC (named by the Association for Corporate Growth Houston as the Upstream Deal of the Year and Overall Deal of the Year in 2023).
*Some of these representations were handled by Stephen prior to joining Haynes and Boone.
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- State Bar of Texas, Member
- Association for Corporate Growth, Member
- The Greater Houston Partnership, Member
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- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc., 2026
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Education
- J.D., Tulane University Law School, 2010, Managing Editor, Tulane Maritime Law Journal; Order of the Coif
- B.S., Louisiana State University, 2007, summa cum laude, University Medalist
Admissions
- Texas
Haynes Boone Advises Liberty Energy on $525 Million Convertible Senior Notes Offering
March 31, 2026
Haynes Boone Advises Liberty Energy on $770 Million Convertible Senior Notes Offering
February 09, 2026
Haynes Boone Guides 1776 Energy in Sale of Eagle Ford Assets to Silver Hill Energy Partners
January 12, 2026