Amanda’s practice covers general corporate and securities matters and mergers and acquisitions.

Amanda regularly assists clients in US capital markets transactions and advises clients regarding periodic SEC reporting, corporate governance and compliance matters, as well as public and private acquisitions and divestitures. Amanda has represented both issuers and underwriters in various offerings, including initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, at-the-market offerings and tender offers. She has worked with exploration and production companies, midstream companies, oilfield services companies, investment funds and investment banks.

Representative Experience

• Representation of the sales agents in connection with the commencement of an at-the-market offering program of up to 60,000,000 shares of common stock of Hecla Mining Company (2021)
• Representation of the underwriters in connection with an offering of $300 million aggregate principal amount of 3.950% senior notes due 2050 by Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (2020)
• Acted as special counsel to the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Pure Acquisition Corp. (“Pure”), a special purpose acquisition company, in connection with its initial business combination pursuant to which Pure effected a merger resulting in a newly formed and publicly traded company, HighPeak Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: HPK), with an estimated enterprise value of $1,575,000,000 (2020)
• Represented the underwriters in an offering by Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. of $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 3.250% Senior Notes due 2030 (2020)
• Represented client in connection with Hecla Mining Company’s 3(a)(9) exchange of CAD$40 million in aggregate principal amount of Hecla Mining Company’s 4.68% Senior Notes Series 2018-A held by Ressources Quebec Inc. for 10,654,856 shares of Hecla Mining Company’s common stock, and subsequent secondary block trade by Ressources Quebec Inc. in which client purchased for resale all common stock received by Ressources Quebec Inc. in the 3(a)(9) exchange (2019)
• Represented the underwriters in connection with the initial public offering of MetroCity Bankshares, Inc. (2019)
• Representation of Texas Children’s Hospital in numerous strategic investments (2019)
• Represented the special committee of the board of directors of the general partner of DCP Midstream, LP on a transaction to eliminate all general partner economic interests and incentive distribution rights in exchange for 65 million newly issued DCP common units valued at approximately $1.53 billion (2019)
• Represented the underwriters in connection with the initial public offering of CrossFirst Bankshares, Inc. (2019)
• Assisted in the local representation of Monitronics International Inc.’s financial restructuring under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code (2019)

• Assisted in the local representation of Weatherford International plc, Weatherford International Ltd., and Weatherford International, LLC’s financial restructuring under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code (2019)
• Represented Inside Lacrosse Holdings Inc. in its acquisition of the Inside Lacrosse Business of American City Business Journals, Inc. (2019)
• Represented the underwriters in Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.’s $500 million offering of their 3.950% Senior Notes due 2050 (2019)
• Represented a Dow 30 company in its $4.0 billion registered notes offering (2019)
• Representation of MD Anderson Cancer Center in numerous joint ventures and other strategic transactions (2019)
• Represented the underwriters in Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.’s $500 million offering of their 4.850% Senior Notes due 2049 (2019)
• Represented the sellers in connection with the sale of their respective equity interests in certain midstream joint venture companies to an NYSE-listed midstream company for approximately $470 million (2018)
• Represented the sales agent in Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund’s at-the-market equity program for the offer and sale of up to 14,138,865 common shares of beneficial interest of Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund, par value $0.01 per share (2018)
• Represented the underwriters in connection with an offering by CAI International, Inc. of its 8.50% Series B Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock (2018)
• Representation of Texas Methodist Foundation in connection with the merger of Heartspring Methodist Foundation into Texas Methodist Foundation (2018)
• Representation of the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of the General Partner of DCP Midstream, LP in its securing of an option to acquire up to a 30 percent ownership interest (representing a potential capital investment of approximately $400 million) in two 150,000 bpd natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionators to be constructed within Phillips 66’s Sweeney Hub in Old Ocean, Texas (2018)
• Representation of 1Derrick, Inc. and 1Derrick Ltd. in connection with the sale of 1Derrick, Inc. and 1Derrick Ltd. to Drilling Info, Inc. (2018)
• Represented the initial purchasers in Jagged Peak Energy LLC’s $500 million Rule 144A offering of their 5.875% Senior Notes due 2026, guaranteed by Jagged Peak Energy Inc. (2018)
• Represented the underwriters in an offering by Landmark Infrastructure Partners LP of 2,000,000 of its Series C Floating-to-Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Redeemable Convertible Preferred Units (2018)
• Representation of the underwriters in connection with an offering by CAI International, Inc. of its 8.50% Series A Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock (2018)
• Representation of Just Energy (U.S. Corp.) and its Canadian parent company, Just Energy Group Inc., a dual-listed (NYSE/TSX) retail energy provider, in the acquisition of EdgePower Inc. (2018)
• Representation of Just Energy Group Inc., a dual-listed (NYSE/TSX) retail energy provider, in connection with its sale of $100 million aggregate principal amount of Convertible Unsecured Senior Subordinated Debentures (2018)
• Representation of the sales agent in Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund’s commencement of an at-the-market equity program for the offer and sale of up to 5,739,210 common shares of beneficial interest of Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund, par value $0.01 per share (2018)
• Representation of Newpark Resources, Inc., in its subsidiary’s acquisition of substantially all of the assets, operations and employees of Well Service Group Inc. and Utility Access Solutions Inc. (2017)
• Representation of BofA Merrill Lynch and Barclays as lead placement agents in connection with Black Stone Minerals, L.P.’s private placement of $300 million of Series B Cumulative Convertible Preferred Units to an affiliate of The Carlyle Group (2017)
• Representation of the Conflicts Committee of MPLX LP in MPLX LP’s acquisition of joint-interest ownership in certain pipelines and storage facilities from Marathon Petroleum Corp. (2017)
• Representation of an upstream oil and gas company in a $300 million Rule 144A private placement of its 9.75% Senior Notes due 2022 (2017)
• Representation of Just Energy Group Inc., a dual-listed (NYSE/TSX) energy company, in connection with its $100 million offering of Series A Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares (2017)
• Representation of the sales agent in connection with the commencement of an at-the-market program for up to 4,750,000 common shares of beneficial interest in Fiduciary/Claymore MLP Opportunity Fund, an NYSE-listed, diversified, closed-end management investment company (2017)
• Representation of the underwriters in a $500 million public offering of senior notes by Boardwalk Pipelines, LP, an NYSE-listed, midstream-focused limited partnership (2017)
• Representation of the sales agent in connection with the commencement of an at-the-market program for up to 3,900,000 common shares of beneficial interest in Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund, an NYSE-listed, diversified, closed-end management investment company (2016)
• Representation of the underwriters in a $56 million follow-on offering of common units representing limited partner interests in Landmark Infrastructure Partners LP, a NASDAQ-listed master limited partnership (2016)

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, University of Houston Law Center, Houston Journal of International Law, Senior Articles Editor, 2016BS, The University of Texas at Austin, highest honors, 2013