Jenelle M. Simmons

Jennie Simmons is Co-Chair of Locke Lord’s Corporate Practice Group. She focuses her practice on the representation of clients in mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, divestitures, corporate restructurings, corporate governance and general corporate matters. Jennie has represented clients in a wide range of transaction valuations, ranging from $5 million to $2 billion.

Among many others, Jennie has been involved in the following transactions:

• Yokogawa Electric Corporation in its acquisition of Fluence Analytics, a U.S.-based startup that provides real-time analytics solutions to polymer and biopharmaceutical companies worldwide
• Medallion Midstream Services, a Permian Basin-focused midstream service provider, in the sale of its natural gas gathering processing business in West Texas to Cardinal Midstream Partners
• Gyrodata Incorporated, a global company specializing in gyroscopic wellbore positioning and survey technology, in its execution of a definitive agreement to be acquired by SLB, a global technology company
• ArcLight Capital Partners’ sale of Pride Convenience Holdings, LLC, which operates 31 convenience stores in highly desirable locations, to ARKO, one of the largest operators of convenience stores and wholesalers of fuel in the United States, at a purchase price of approximately $230 million
• Summit Midstream Partners, a publicly traded partnership focused on developing, owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets, into definitive agreements with Outrigger Energy II LLC to acquire Outrigger DJ Midstream LLC and with Sterling Investment Holdings LLC to acquire Sterling Energy Investments LLC
• Refuel Operating Company, LLC, in its acquisition of the assets of The Whalen Corp., a Raleigh, North Carolina-based convenience store chain with three stores in the Raleigh-Durham market
• Summit Midstream Partners in the sale of Bison Midstream to Steel Reef Infrastructure Corporation for cash consideration of $40 million
• Riverbend Energy Group, a multi-faceted investment firm, in its equity investment in Harnyss, LLC, the market leader in solid-state hydrogen storage technologies
• Embark Energy, a wholesale and retail fuel distribution and c-store chain, in its sale of 11 Fast Break Convenience stores and four company-owned, dealer-operated locations to Refuel Operating Company, LLC
• Summit Midstream Partners in the sale of its Lane Gathering and Processing System in the Delaware Basin to a subsidiary of Matador Resources Company for a cash sale price of $75 million
• WildFire Energy in its acquisition of approximately 45,000 net acres and 200 operated wells in the East Texas Eagle Ford from MD America Energy, LLC
• ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, in its acquisition of the Pride retail chain of stores
• Refuel Operating Company, LLC, in its acquisition of the assets of Albemarle Oil Company
• US Rod Company, LLC, and Patriot Pump in their sale to Lufkin Industries, a portfolio company of KPS Capital Partners
• Nutex Health Holdco in a business combination with Clinigence Holdings, Inc.
• Yokogawa Electric Corporation in its acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of PXiSE Energy Solutions, LLC
• Certus Energy in its business combination with Rod and Tubing Services
• Nuevo Midstream Dos, LLC, in its asset combination with Ironwood Midstream Energy Partners II, LLC
• WildFire Energy in its acquisition of Hawkwood Energy
• Tall Oak Midstream and TW Midcon Holdings, LLC, portfolio companies of Tailwater Capital, in the acquisition of Redcliff Midstream, LLC, from Canyon Midstream Partners II, LLC
• Refuel Operating Company, LLC, in its acquisition of the assets of Holmes Oil Company, Inc
• White Deer Energy LP in several transactions, including its sale of portfolio company Patriot Completion Solutions LLC to Ranger Energy Services, Inc.
• NextEra Energy Partners LP in its acquisition of Meade Pipeline Co LLC, and its interest in the Central Penn Line, in a transaction valued at approximately $1.37 billion
• Refuel Operating Company, LLC, in its acquisition of the convenience retailing, petroleum marketing and quick-service restaurant assets of Double Quick, Inc.
• AMP Americas II, LLC, in a $75 million investment for new dairy RNG projects led by EIV Capital and existing AMP investors
• Amp Americas in the sale of its 20 ampCNG fueling stations to American Natural Gas LLC for $41 million
• Nuevo Midstream Dos, LLC, in a definitive agreement with an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners to purchase Republic Midstream, LLC
• Gyrodata, Incorporated, in the sale of its directional drilling business to Intrepid Drilling Specialists, Limited
• Global Energy Capital in numerous investments and acquisitions
• The management team of Trace Midstream in its combination with Gemini Midstream
• Symrise AG in the investment in and creation of a strategic partnership with Califormulations, LLC, a unique platform designed to deliver end-to-end beverage innovation to consumer packaged goods companies and their brands
• Sentry Energy Solutions, a premier provider of safety and environmental services, in the acquisition of Himarc Environmental Solutions
• Coastal Flow Measurement, Inc., in the company’s sale to Quorum Software, a Thoma Bravo portfolio company
• Flow Management Devices, LLC (Flow MD), in connection with Flow MD entering into a definitive agreement to be acquired by IDEX Corporation
• Intrepid Investment Management, LLC, the investing platform of Intrepid Financial Partners, in its investment in Rio Grande E&P, LLC
• Saddle Butte Pipeline II, LLC, in the sale of certain of Saddle Butte’s midstream subsidiaries to Black Diamond Gathering LLC
• NextEra Energy Partners LP in its announced $2 billion acquisition of a Texas-Mexico pipeline
• A private equity fund in the $155 million sale of its portfolio company involved in providing environmental and industrial cleaning solutions to downstream and midstream companies
• A private equity fund’s investment up to $40 million in a frac sand and mining operation
• A private equity fund in the $100 million sale of its portfolio company involved in the wireless telecommunications business
• A private company in the approximately $45 million sale of its agricultural business
• A publicly traded corporation in the $46 million purchase of certain assets of a business involved in manufacturing and marketing pelletizer and pulverizer machinery and the related acquisition of the seller’s German, Chinese and Taiwanese subsidiaries
• A private equity fund in its $14 million acquisition of a company involved in the design, manufacture and distribution of digital video and photographic technology and equipment
• Various private equity funds in other acquisitions and dispositions
• Various family offices in general corporate matters and certain investments, including a biopharmaceutical company based in Paris focused on the development of innovative immunotherapy approaches to treat cancer