John Brannan III

John’s experience at Sidley includes the following representative matters:

• Represented Crescent Pass Energy, LLC, a private equity portfolio company, and certain of its affiliates in connection with the sale of their eastern Texas oil and gas properties and related facilities to Diversified Energy Company PLC (NYSE: DEC) for aggregate unadjusted consideration equal to US$106 million.
• Represented Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Mitsui) in the acquisition of approx. 92% working interest in an unconventional gas asset in South Texas from the operator, Silver Hill Eagle Ford E&P, LLC, a subsidiary of Silver Hill Energy Partners, LP.
• Represented Denham Capital’s portfolio company Serra Verde in its US$150 million investment by Vision Blue Resources and The Energy & Minerals Group.
• Represented Ensign Natural Resources LLC, a private equity portfolio company, in connection with the US$3.0 billion sale of its Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas assets to Marathon Oil Company.
• Represented Tailwater Capital LLC (“Tailwater”) in connection with a Tailwater led consortium’s acquisition of Verdad Resources Holdings LLC, an independent oil and gas exploration and development company with oil and gas assets in Colorado and Wyoming.
• Represented Tellurian Production LLC (TPC) in connection with its agreement to purchase Haynesville Shale natural gas assets from privately held EnSight IV Energy Partners, LLC and EnSight Haynesville Partners, LLC.
• Represented Kimmeridge Energy Management Company, LLC, in its joint venture with Desert Royalty Company, LLC to create Desert Peak Minerals which created the largest Delaware Basin pure-play mineral and royalty company, with over 70,000 net royalty acres on a 1/8th royalty-adjusted basis (NRAs) across eight counties in west Texas and southeast New Mexico.
• Represented BP America Production Company in the sale of certain upstream oil and natural gas properties in Cleveland and McClain Counties, Oklahoma (SWOOP area) to Lime Rock Resources.
• Represented Anadarko Petroleum Corporation in the sale of certain upstream and midstream assets in the Marcellus Shale to Alta Marcellus Development LLC for approximately US$1.24 billion.
• Represented an energy-focused private equity firm in the acquisition and divestiture of certain upstream oil and gas assets in Texas.
• Represented Anadarko Petroleum Corporation in the sale of certain upstream assets in the Eagle Ford to WildHorse Resource Development Corporation for an aggregate consideration of US$625 million.
• Represented a private equity fund in backing a new management team and forming a new upstream-focused portfolio company.

• The American Indian Law Review, Articles Editor 
• Houston Young Lawyers Association (2016)
• Phi Delta Phi