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Michelle Pichardo

Managing Associate

Houston

Michelle focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint venture arrangements, project development and general corporate matters.

She advises clients in negotiating complex purchase and sale agreements, joint venture arrangements and other project development agreements in the energy and infrastructure space. Michelle represents a wide array of clients primarily in the renewable energy and oil and gas sectors, including U.S. and international energy companies, developers and private equity funds.

    • A U.S. energy company in a $550 million acquisition of Bakken assets 
    • An international energy company in a $1.25 billion acquisition of natural gas interests in Pennsylvania.
    • A U.S. energy company in a sale of assets in the DJ Basin.
    • An international energy company in a $1 billion swap transaction involving upstream and midstream oil and gas assets.
    • A private equity firm in the sale of oil, natural gas and wastewater pipeline, gathering and processing infrastructure assets in North Dakota and Texas.
    • A private equity firm in a sale of a portfolio of gas storage facilities in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and New Mexico.
    • An international energy company in its acquisition of a 25% joint venture interest in a carbon capture and sequestration project. 
    • A private equity firm in a $402 million sale of upstream oil and gas assets in New Mexico and Colorado.
    • A developer in power purchase agreements with a utility offtaker for seven solar facilities across Pennsylvania.
    • A global alternative investment manager in the sale of a 302 MW wind farm located in Morgan County, Illinois.
    • An infrastructure fund in its equity investments in city-wide open-access fiber networks in Massachusetts and California, and joint venture arrangements relating thereto.
    • An energy-focused private equity firm in the sale of a natural gas transmission business serving Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
    • An energy-focused private equity fund in the acquisition of a wind power generation facility being developed in Illinois.
    • An oil and gas company in a $900 million sale of its Bakken oil & gas assets in North Dakota and Montana.
    • A clean energy operator in a private placement to refinance a portfolio of solar assets in the Western United States.
    • A water management, waste management and energy services company in the $1.25 billion divestiture of its U.S. district energy business.