Article 06.11.25
Blake Berkey blends his corporate development experience and thoughtful legal approach to successfully guide clients through strategic transactions.
Blake advises private equity sponsors and strategics, ranging from public companies to founder-owned and emerging growth companies, on significant business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, liquidity events, divestitures, deSPACs and equity financings. He also advises companies on general corporate matters.
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Blake has extensive experience advising clients across a variety of industries, including energy (clean, transition and traditional), infrastructure, technology, manufacturing, life sciences, business services and retail. He leverages his past experience as a corporate development manager for a public energy company, where he led efforts to source and negotiate deSPAC and venture investments in energy transition companies, to provide clients with wholistic transactional guidance. He complements this perspective with practical insights from his time as in-house counsel for a Fortune 250 infrastructure services company. His extensive familiarity with every phase of a transaction enables him to serve clients with strategic creativity, negotiating skill and insightful analysis.
Representative Experience
- Represented Quanta Services, Inc. in various acquisitions of private construction, manufacturing and engineering companies.
- Led search process and negotiations for Nabors Energy Transition Corp. II, as well as PIPE negotiations and closing process for Nabors Energy Transition Corp., both special purpose acquisition companies sponsored by Nabors Industries Ltd.
- Advised UGI Corporation in separate acquisitions of (i) a private West Virginia natural gas distribution company, (ii) five natural gas pipeline systems in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, and (iii) its Amerigas Partners, L.P., its master limited partnership.
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- Represented the Whitewater Midstream management team in the company’s sale and recapitalization with First Infrastructure Capital.
- Represented Betbull Limited in a strategic joint venture and sale of majority control to Wynn Resorts, Limited.
- Represented the conflicts committee of Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. in its $4 billion acquisition of assets from affiliates of its sponsor, Royal Dutch Shell.
- Represented Chevron Corporation in its approximately $1.32 billion buy-in acquisition of Noble Midstream Partners.
- Represented the conflicts committee of Navios Maritime Midstream Partners L.P. in a $200 million buy-in transaction by its sponsor.
- Represented the conflicts committee of Navios Maritime Containers Partners L.P. in a $150 million acquisition by its sponsor.
- Represented CenterPoint Energy, Inc. in the $850 million carve-out sale of its infrastructure services segment to a financial buyer.
Education
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J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2016
B.A., Finance, Gordon College, 2011
Admissions
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Texas
Illinois