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Lakshmi Ramanathan Baker Botts Houston
Lakshmi Ramanathan Baker Botts Houston
Lakshmi Ramanathan
Special Counsel
lakshmi.ramanathan@bakerbotts.com
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Practices
Capital Markets and Securities
Corporate Governance and Compliance Counseling
Corporate
Emerging Companies and Venture Capital
Mergers and Acquisitions
Details
Overview
Overview Admission & Affiliations Experience News Thought Leadership Awards and Community
Practices
Capital Markets and Securities
Corporate Governance and Compliance Counseling
Corporate
Emerging Companies and Venture Capital
Mergers and Acquisitions

Overview

Lakshmi Ramanathan represents public and private companies in a broad range of corporate and securities matters. She represents issuers, investment banking firms and other investors in public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, including initial public offerings, follow-on and secondary public offerings and Rule 144A offerings. Her practice also includes mergers and acquisitions, debt tender offers, consent solicitations and general corporate matters, including Exchange Act reporting, Section 16 compliance and corporate governance. She has substantial experience in the oil and gas industry and is a member of the Baker Botts Oil and Gas M&A team.

Admission & Affiliations

  • State Bar of Texas
  • J.D., Harvard Law School 2013
  • B.B.A., The University of Texas 2010

Experience

Initial Public Offerings

  • Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP – $104 million initial public offering of common units
  • Columbia Pipeline Partners LP – $1.2 billion initial public offering of common units
  • Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. – $1.1 billion initial public offering of common units

Capital Markets - Issuer Representation

  • Bristow Group Inc. – $125 million public offering of convertible senior notes; $350 million Rule 144A offering of senior secured notes; consent solicitation of senior secured notes
  • Atwood Oceanics, Inc. – $181 million public offering of common stock
  • El Paso Electric Company – $150 million public offering of senior notes
  • Noble Holding International Limited – $1.1 billion public offering of senior notes; $750 million Rule 144A offering of senior guaranteed notes and concurrent $750 million tender offer of senior notes; redemption of senior notes; $400 million tender offer of senior notes offer and consent solicitation
  • Noble Drilling (U.S.) LLC – Selling stockholder in $540 million offering of Freeport-McMoRan Inc. common stock
  • Waste Management, Inc. – $350 million public offering of senior notes
  • Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. – $198 million public offering of common stock; $300 million private offering of senior notes; $228 million public offering of common stock; $250 million public offering of senior notes; $250 million private placement of redeemable preferred stock; $219 million public offering of common stock; various redemptions of senior notes
  • LGI Homes, Inc. – $300 million Rule 144A offering of senior notes
  • Helmerich & Payne, Inc. – $487 million private exchange offer of senior notes; $487 million registered exchange offer of senior notes

Capital Markets - Underwriter Representation

  • Westlake Chemical Partners LP – $111 million public offering of common units; $50 million at-the-market continuous offering program (ATM); $63 million private placement of common units
  • Summit Midstream Partners, LP – $387 million public offering of common units; $300 million public offering of senior notes; $226 million secondary public offering of common units; $222 million public offering of common units; $150 million ATM; $126 million public offering of common units
  • Ferrellgas Partners, L.P. – $145 million public offering of common units
  • Southeast Supply Header, LLC – $375 million Rule 144A offering of senior notes
  • Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC – $1.5 billion public offering of debt securities; $1 billion public offering of debt securities; $750 million public offering of debt securities; $1.25 billion public offering of debt securities; $750 million public offering of debt securities; $750 million public offering of debt securities; $825 million public offering of debt securities; $575 million public offering of debt securities

Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Offshore drilling company – acquisition of another offshore drilling company
  • Halliburton Company – proposed acquisition of Baker Hughes Incorporated
  • Champion Energy, LLC – sale of retail electric provider business to Calpine Corporation
  • Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. – financial advisor to the conflicts committee of the board of directors of the general partner of Antero Midstream Partners LP in connection with the acquisition by
  • Antero Midstream GP LLC; financial advisor to the board of directors of WPX Energy, Inc. in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Felix Energy, an operator in the Delaware Basin backed by EnCap Investments L.P.
  • Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. – $2.7 billion merger with Callon Petroleum Company

Other Matters

  • Noble Corporation plc – spin-off of Paragon Offshore
  • Bristow Group Inc. – contested Chapter 11 restructuring

Public Company Corporate Counsel

  • Corporate counsel to Bristow Group Inc., Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc., Dril-Quip, Inc., Helmerich & Payne, Inc., Noble Corporation plc and LGI Homes, Inc. – Exchange Act reporting, proxy statements, NYSE and NASDAQ matters, board resolutions, corporate governance, committee charters, Reg FD issues and Section 16 compliance
News
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15 August 2024 News Release Baker Botts Earns Huge Increases in Accolades in The Best Lawyers in America
18 June 2024 News Coverage CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 16 Firms, 214 Lawyers, $9.9B
13 June 2024 News Release Baker Botts Represents Navigator Holdings Ltd. in Secondary Offering of Common Stock and Concurrent Share Repurchase Stock Certificate
03 June 2024 News Release Baker Botts Represents the Underwriters in $1.3 Billion Debentures Offering for Burlington Northern Santa Fe
21 March 2024 News Release Super Lawyers Selects 20 Baker Botts Attorneys to 2024 "Texas Rising Stars" List Gold Stars
05 February 2024 News Coverage CDT: 2024 Capital Markets Transactions
09 January 2024 News Coverage CDT Roundup: 8 Deals, 8 Firms, 84 Lawyers, $7.9B
08 January 2024 News Coverage Global Partners’ $450 Million Senior Notes Private Offering
03 January 2024 News Release Baker Botts Represents Initial Purchasers in Global Partners LP’s $450 Million Private Offering of Senior Notes Skyscrapers
15 December 2023 News Coverage LGI Homes’ $400 Million Private Notes Offering
13 December 2023 News Coverage CDT Roundup: 26 Deals, 17 Firms, 244 Lawyers, $14.6B
11 December 2023 News Release Baker Botts Represents CVR Energy, Inc. in Private Placement of $600 Million of Senior Notes Skyscrapers
15 August 2024 News Release Baker Botts Earns Huge Increases in Accolades in The Best Lawyers in America
18 June 2024 News Coverage CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 16 Firms, 214 Lawyers, $9.9B
13 June 2024 News Release Baker Botts Represents Navigator Holdings Ltd. in Secondary Offering of Common Stock and Concurrent Share Repurchase Stock Certificate

Awards and Community

Recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer-Rising Star (Thomson Reuters), 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021

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