People

Overview

Chelsea Johnson represents public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and general corporate matters. Chelsea also advises clients on securities compliance issues, including Exchange Act reporting.

Admission & Affiliations

  • State Bar of Texas
  • Houston Bar Association
  • Houston Young Lawyers Association
  • J.D., The University of Texas School of Law 2021
    with honors
  • B.B.A., Finance, Baylor University 2018
    summa cum laude

Experience

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Shell USA, Inc. in $1.96 billion acquisition of Shell Midstream Partners, L.P.
  • Stephens Inc. as financial advisor to Executive Network Partnering Corporation in its initial business combination with Grey Rock Investment Partners for $1.3 billion, forming a new publicly traded upstream company, Granite Ridge Resources, Inc.
  • Crestwood Equity Partners LP in its $1.8 billion merger with, and acquisition of, Oasis Midstream Partners LP
  • Transocean Ltd. in formation and buyout of joint venture and purchase of deepwater drillship
  • Peak 10 Energy and Legacy Star in platform launch and initial acquisition closing
  • Broad Reach Power management team in sale to ENGIE at an equity value over $1 billion

Capital Markets

  • Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in underwritten secondary offering by certain subsidiaries of Chord Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: CHRD) (f/k/a Oasis Petroleum Inc.) (the “Selling Unitholders”) of an aggregate of 11,400,000 common units representing limited partner interests of Crestwood Equity Partners LP resulting in total gross proceeds to the Selling Unitholders of approximately $306.7 million
  • Sunnova Energy International Inc. in its offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes
  • Transocean Ltd. in offering of $525 million in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes
  • Initial purchasers in offering of $600 million in aggregate principal amount of unsecured senior notes by Crestwood Midstream Partners LP
  • Initial purchasers and dealer manager in offering of $325 million senior notes offering and cash tender offers by Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P.
  • Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. in $550 million term loan facility and tender offer for existing secured notes
  • Transocean Ltd. in offering of $325 million in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes

Securitizations

  • Sunnova Energy International, Inc. in multiple securitizations of residential solar assets, including asset-backed securitization collateralized by a pool of distributed generation solar assets

Public Company Corporate Counsel

  • Corporate counsel to Chesapeake Granite Wash Trust, ITC Holdings Corp.- Exchange Act reporting; NYSE matters; board matters; corporate governance; Reg FD issues; Section 16 compliance