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Will Johnson

Will Johnson

Will Johnson is an associate in the Energy, Power and Natural Resources Practice Group in the Houston office of Haynes Boone.

His practice focuses on a variety of energy transactions, including upstream, midstream and downstream acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures.

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Acquisitions and Divestitures

  • A public energy company 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
  • A public energy company in its $240 million divestiture of certain upstream oil and gas assets located in the Anadarko Basin
  • Subsidiaries of a public energy company in their $700 million divestiture of certain upstream gas assets located in the Eagle Ford Shale 
  • Subsidiaries of a public energy company in their $1.4 billion divestiture of certain upstream oil assets located in the Eagle Ford Shale
  • A public energy company in its $115 million acquisition of company interests in entities holding certain midstream assets located in southwest Texas
  • A private energy company in its $75 million acquisition of certain upstream oil and gas assets located in northeast Texas
  • Callon Petroleum Company in the sale of all its Eagle Ford oil and gas assets to Ridgemar Energy Operating, LLC for $655 million in cash with an additional contingent consideration up to $45 million.
  • Callon Petroleum Company in its $475 million acquisition of the Midland Basin assets of Percussion Petroleum Operating II, LLC, with contingent consideration up to $62.5 million.
  • A public energy company in its acquisition of $2.65 billion of oil and gas interests in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale
  • A public energy company in its divestiture of $415 million of oil and gas assets located in Wyoming
  • A public energy company in connection with its acquisition of Cotton Valley Shale and Haynesville Shale upstream oil and gas assets and related facilities in Louisiana and Texas
  • A public energy company in its acquisition of $100 million of proved developed producing oil and gas assets in East Texas

Joint Ventures

  • A public energy company in the formation of a drilling partnership with a private energy company to develop oil and gas assets in Oklahoma

*Some of these representations were handled by Will prior to joining Haynes Boone.

Education

J.D., Texas Tech University School of Law, 2020, magna cum laude, Staff Editor, Texas Tech Law Review

B.A., Political Science, Clemson University, 2016

Clerkships

Intern to the Honorable Marcia Crone, U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, 2018;

Intern to the Honorable K. Nicole Mitchell, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, 2018

Admissions

Texas

Press Release
Haynes Boone Wins ACG Houston Deal of the Year for $1.4B Energy Transaction
April 25, 2024

A transaction assisted by Haynes and Boone, LLP was named Deal of the Year in the Overall category as well as the Exploration & Production (Upstream) category at this year’s Association for Corporate Growth Houston Seventh Annual Awards Ceremony. In the winning deal, a multidisciplinary team led by Partner Jeremy Kennedy served as lead counsel to Chesapeake Energy Corporation in the sale of the Br [...]