Ming advises clients on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, joint venture, private equity investments, project finance and development, and complex commercial contracts in the energy and infrastructure sectors. 

Ming also routinely advises Chinese companies with respect to their investments, projects, transactions, corporate governance, disputes resolution and regulatory compliance matters in the US.

Relevant Experience

Infrastructure M&A and JV Transactions

• Represented Royal Vopak and BlackRock’s Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund in the formation of a joint venture, Vopak Industrial Infrastructure Americas, LLC, and then in VIIA’s subsequent purchase of three of The Dow Chemical Company’s chemical storage terminals on the US Gulf Coast for $620 million.
• Represented Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its $3.6 billion acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Oryx Southern Delaware Holdings LLC and Oryx Delaware Holdings LLC, which comprises of, among others, crude oil gathering and transportation system with approximately 1,200 miles of in-service and under-construction pipeline that across the core of the Delaware Basin.
• Represented Stakeholder Midstream in its acquisition of certain midstream gas gathering and processing assets in Yoakum County, Texas from Santa Fe Midstream.
• Represented Stakeholder Midstream in its acquisition of a crude oil gathering system and gas gathering pipeline in Yoakum County, Texas from Walsh Petroleum, Inc. and Burk Royalty Co. Ltd.
• Represented UBS Investment Bank, as financial advisor to NuStar Energy, in its $1.5 billion acquisition of Navigator Energy Services, LLC which owns crude oil transportation, pipeline gathering and storage assets in the Midland Basin.
• Represented Ridgemont Equity Partners in its joint venture investment with Denham Capital Management and the Ontario Power Generation Inc. Pension Plan to back WhiteWater Midstream, MPLX LP and West Texas Gas, Inc. to provide natural gas liquids (NGLs) takeaway capacity from MPLX and WTG gas processing plants in the Permian Basin to the NGL fractionation hub in Sweeny, TX.

• Represented private company in its acquisition of a natural gas and liquids gathering and transportation business in North Texas through the acquisition of the equity interests of the seller’s subsidiaries holding these assets.
• Represented a privately held E&P company in the acquisition of South Louisiana crude oil gathering and transportation pipeline system from publicly held energy company.
• Represented Harvest Midstream Company, the midstream business arm of Hilcorp Energy, in its $200 million acquisition of certain crude pipelines and related assets from a public interstate pipeline company.
• Represented one of the world’s largest oil trading companies in its $600 million acquisition of the global oil liquids business of a global supply chain manager of energy, power and gas products.

Oil and Gas Assets M&A and JV Transactions

• Represented Hilcorp Energy in its $2.7 billion acquisition of oil and gas properties in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico from ConocoPhillips.
• Represented GSO, as a financial partner with Sanchez Energy, in the structuring of their joint venture in connection with the purchase by Sanchez and Blackstone of oil and gas properties in the Eagle Ford Shale from Anadarko for $2.3 billion.
• Represented a privately held E&P company in its $385 million acquisition of Anadarko Basin oil and gas properties from a major public oil and gas company.
• Represented a privately held E&P company in its $200 million acquisition of Anadarko Basin oil and gas properties from private equity backed E&P company.
• Represented privately held E&P company in its $130 million acquisition of an overriding royalty interest in West Texas acreage.
• Represented Tokyo Gas America Ltd. in its 30% strategic equity investment into Castleton Resources LLC, a subsidiary of Castleton Commodities International LLC which owns upstream and midstream assets in East Texas and Louisiana.
• Represented Tokyo Gas America in its acquisition of a 25% stake in certain Eagle Ford shale gas formation from VirTex.
• Represented a large independent company in an asset exchange transaction with respect to certain acreage in New Mexico and Texas with a major public oil and gas company.
• Represented a privately held E&P company in its $170 million acquisition of San Juan Basin oil and gas properties from a major public oil and gas company.
• Represented a large independent oil and gas company in its $100 million sale of Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas properties.
• Represented a large independent oil and gas company in its sale of oil and gas properties in West Oklahoma in consideration of $60 million and certain acreage.

Other Energy M&A Transactions

• Represented a private company in its acquisition of a clean coal gasification plant and related assets located in Indiana.
• Represented a private company in its acquisition of a wind powered electric generating project located in Oklahoma.
• Represented a private company in its disposition of a wind energy generation project located in McCulloch County, Texas through the sale of 100% membership interests of the project company.
• Represented Entrec as its U.S. counsel in its disposition of certain oil field services assets, in connection with its bankruptcy in Canada and related Chapter 15 bankruptcy in the US.
• Represented a court-appointed receiver in its disposition of certain oil field services equipment of a private company in connection with the receivership proceedings.
• Represented ProPetro Holding Corp. in connection with its $400 million acquisition of the pressure pumping assets of Pioneer Natural Resources Company.

Capital Markets and Equity Investment Transactions

• Represented 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.
• Represented a privately held E&P company in its $285 million equity and debt finance with a private equity fund in connection with its exploration and development activities in the Midland Basin.
• Represented a privately held E&P company in a $525 million equity capital raise from private equity fund in connection with its acquisition of certain strategic upstream and midstream assets in the Anadarko Basin.
• Represented the conflicts committee of Enviva Partners in a drop-down acquisition of marine terminals and logistics business worth $130 million.
• Represented the underwriters in a $93 million equity offering by Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. in connection with oil and gas related matters in the offering.
• Represented Citi etc. as the underwriters in the initial public offering of Jagged Peak Energy, in connection with oil and gas related matters in the offering.

Complex Commercial Contracts Related Work

• Represented a large independent exploration and production company in the conveyance of a gas gathering system and oil terminal in the Permian Basin to its midstream affiliates and the drafting and negotiation of the related gas gathering agreement and oil terminal services agreement.
• Represented a public company in negotiating a long term raw product supply and sale agreement for certain processing facilities.
• Represented a major global energy company in an extensive internal review and summary of all project documents and commercial agreements relating to the company’s entire wind energy project portfolio in the United States, including wind energy projects in Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Texas.
• Represented a private company in drafting and developing a set of form purchase agreements in connection with acquisition of mineral interests.
• Represented a marine terminal owner and operator in connection with its day-to-day marine terminal services agreements and related matters.
• Represented a few office buildings in connection with their day-to-day office leasing matters.
• Represented a manufacture company in drafting and developing certain transportation contracts forms.

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Education
JD, Duke University School of Law, 2015BA, Wuhan University, 2011