Biography
Greg Kerr is an associate in Weil’s Private Equity practice and is based in Houston. Greg advises and represents public and private companies, private equity sponsors and other investors on a wide array of corporate transactions across the energy and infrastructure industries, with a focus on the upstream and midstream oil and gas sectors. He also advises clients on infrastructure projects, M&A transactions and commercial arrangements related to hydrogen, carbon capture and sequestration, energy storage, renewable fuels and other energy transition areas.
Greg has been part of the teams advising:
- Antero Midstream LLC in its $70 million acquisition of certain gas gathering, compression, dehydration, measurement and appurtenant facilities in Doddridge and Harrison County, WV, from Mountaineer Midstream Company, LLC (a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Summit Midstream Partners, LP)
- Contango Resources, LLC (a subsidiary of Crescent Energy Co) in its sale of certain upstream oil and gas assets in Eddy County, New Mexico, to Riley Exploration-Permian, LLC
- DT Midstream, Inc. in its $1.2 billion acquisition of a portfolio of three FERC-regulated natural gas transmission pipelines from ONEOK, Inc.
- Goldman Sachs in its $440 million strategic investment in BrightNight
- Hut 8 Corp. in its acquisition of Rocky Butte Power Holdco, LLC from Priority Power Management, LLC (a portfolio company of Oaktree Capital Management, L.P and Ara Partners)
- IMTT Holdings LLC (a portfolio company of Riverstone Holdings LLC) in its sale of five bulk liquids storage terminals located in Alamogordo, NM, Bremen, GA, Macon, GA, Montgomery, AL and Moundville, AL to JET Infrastructure Holding IA LLC (a portfolio company of Instar Asset Management); and in the sale of its bulk liquids storage terminal located in Gretna, Louisiana, to BWC Terminals
- Mesa Royalties III Holdings, LLC and affiliates in its acquisition of oil and gas mineral and royalty interests in the Haynesville shale play
- WhiteHawk Energy, LLC, in connection with a $100 million term facility, of which $20 million was used to acquire the Haynesville Shale natural gas mineral and royalty assets located in northwestern Louisiana and eastern Texas, from Mesa Minerals Partners II, LLC
Prior to joining Weil, Greg was an associate at another international law firm. He has also worked for a multinational energy corporation, where he focused on acquisitions and divestitures in the Permian and Appalachian Basins.
Greg received his J.D. from the University of Tulsa College of Law, his M.B.A. from the University of Tulsa, Collins College of Business, and his B.S. from Trinity University.