Will Johnson

Acquisitions and Divestitures

• 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).
• Chesapeake Energy Corporation in its $1.4 billion divestiture of approximately 2,300 wells located in the Eagle Ford Shale to INEOS Energy.
• Chesapeake Energy Corporation in its $700 million divestiture of its remaining Eagle Ford oil and gas assets to SilverBow Resources, Inc.
• A public energy company in its $240 million divestiture of certain upstream oil and gas assets located in the Anadarko Basin.
• 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
• Diversified Energy Company in its $45.5 million acquisition of certain operated natural gas assets and midstream infrastructure located in Alabama, Virginia and West Virginia from affiliates of Summit Natural Resources, LLC.

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.