Mike Peters

Mike Peters has nearly 30 years of corporate law experience. Mike has extensive experience in:

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Private equity transactions
• Joint ventures
• Project development
• Partnership and limited liability company structures
• Corporate governance

Much of Mike's practice is focused in the energy industry, particularly infrastructure and oilfield services.

During his career with Locke Lord, Mike has also served in a variety of capacities within the Firm, including as a member of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Mergers & Acquisitions Section, Co-Chair of the Corporate Department, a Co-Financial Partner and a member of the Finance Committee.

Mike’s experience includes the representation of:

• Silver Eagle Distributors, L.P., the nation’s largest independent distributor of Anheuser-Busch beverages, in the sale of Silver Eagle’s Greater Houston-area business to a subsidiary of Redwood Capital Investments, LLC
• National Oilwell Varco (NYSE: NOV) in several transactions, including:
  • Purchase of the equity interests in Denali Inc. from affiliates of Patriarch Partners and the Zohar Funds and others
  • Spin-off of its distribution business, DistributionNow (NYSE: DNOW)
  • Carve out sales of noncore divisions
  • Acquisition of Wilson Industries from Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB)
  • Acquisition of Ameron International Corporation (NYSE: AMN) in a transaction valued at approximately $777 million
  • IntelliServ joint venture with Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB)
• Kinder Morgan Inc. (NYSE: KMI) and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP), in several transactions, including:
  • In connection with its acquisition and development program focused on terminal storage and related assets; closed over 25 transactions involving more than 90 terminal facilities with an aggregate value of approximately $2 billion, including transactions with BP, Vopak and US Development
  • Development and expansion of the BOSTCO oil terminal project located on the Houston Ship Channel and the related joint venture with TransMontaigne and others
  • Development and expansions of the Deeprock Terminal in Cushing, Oklahoma, and the related joint ventures
• Team Inc. (NYSE: TISI) in the acquisition of QualSpec Group from Clearview Capital and other sellers
• Members of the management team of Zenith Energy in raising equity backing from a Warburg Pincus affiliate
• ProPetro Services in connection with a private equity recapitalization
• Sunbelt Transformer in private equity recapitalization
• Waste Management (NYSE: WM) in its acquisition of Oakleaf Global Holdings for $425 million
• Northern Border Partners, L.P. (NYSE: NBP), in the purchase of gas gathering, processing, storage and pipeline assets in exchange for cash and MLP units valued at $3 billion
• Several Family Offices and their closely held companies in connection with their businesses and investment portfolios
• Synagro Technologies (NASDAQ: SYGR) in its going private auction sale to The Carlyle Group in a transaction valued at over $800 million
• An MLP in connection with its acquisition program focused on midstream and gas storage assets
• A Fortune 200 company in connection with its asset divestiture program closing over $1.5 billion in asset sales
• Numerous privately held companies in connection with private equity recapitalizations
• Several publicly held consolidators in connection with their acquisition programs
• Investment banker in connection with its engagement by a Fortune 500 company in connection with mergers valued at over $4 billion
• Numerous closely held shareholder groups in selling their companies to public and private companies and private equity funds