Prior to joining the Firm, Kevin was general counsel for the Kayne Anderson Energy Funds. In this role, he advised the Funds and their portfolio companies on the structuring of investments, acquisitions and disposition of assets and equity, financing transactions, litigation, employment issues and various other matters. He also advised on the formation, structuring and governance of private equity funds with commitments exceeding $7 billion.

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• Casillas Petroleum Resource Partners I & II in the acquisition of over $400 million of oil and gas properties in Oklahoma*
• Kraken Oil & Gas in multiple acquisitions of oil and gas properties in the Williston Basin*
• Portfolio companies of private equity funds in the $360 million sale of Oklahoma oil and gas assets to a Korean conglomerate (and successfully obtained CFIUS approval for such sale) *
• Riverbend Oil & Gas in the acquisition and divestiture of several non-operated working interests and mineral/royalty interests across multiple U.S. onshore basins*
• Adventure Exploration Partners II, LLC’s $249 million sale of operated Midland Basin oil and gas assets with various joint sellers to RSP Permian, Inc.*
• Panther Energy Company II LLC in the sale of its Delaware Basin assets to WPX Energy, Inc. for $775 million*
• Canyon Midstream Partners in the sale of its Permian Basin midstream subsidiary*
• Fund sponsor in connection with continuation fund/stapled secondary transaction*
• Beacon E&P Company, LLC in its $160 million divestiture of Barnett Shale assets to a strategic buyer backed by a Chinese private equity fund (and successfully obtained CFIUS approval for such sale) *
• Grenadier Energy Partners, LLC’s sale of its Marcellus Shale oil and gas assets for $590 million to a publicly traded buyer*
• Grenadier Energy Partners II, LLC’s sale of its Midland Basin assets for $420 million to Surge Energy US Holdings Company*
• Newton Energy Partners’ $180 million acquisition of legacy PDP oil and gas assets in Alberta, Canada*
• Newton Energy Partners sale of its Canadian operating subsidiary to Aspenleaf Energy Limited*
• A Canadian subsidiary of Newton Energy Partners in a successful $185-million judgement for fraud and breach of contract arising from misrepresentations made by the seller of Canadian oil and gas assets to Newton under a share purchase and sale agreement, including a judgment that included one of the largest loss of opportunity awards ever made in Alberta
• Defense of a private midstream company in Clean Air Act citizen suit filed by the Sierra Club alleging violations by a natural gas gathering and processing facility*
• Energy Contractors’ sale of its oilfield services assets in various eastern states to a public company*
• HRM Resources/Winter Ridge Energy in the sale of over $100 million oil and gas assets in Colorado and Wyoming*
• Sagebrush Resources’ $180 million sale of its oil and gas assets in the Williston Basin to a private-equity backed purchaser*
• Cavallo Energy’s sale of Texas oil and gas leases and associated oilfield equipment to Linn Energy*
• Kayne Anderson Energy Funds in connection with structuring and funding numerous management teams for oil and gas exploration, midstream infrastructure acquisition and development, and mineral and royalty acquisitions*
• Kayne Anderson Energy Fund portfolio companies in obtaining borrowing base revolving credit facilities*
• Kayne Anderson Energy Fund portfolio companies in numerous other acquisition and monetization transactions of oil and gas properties*
• Indian exploration and production company in connection with the acquisition and financing of various producing properties in Ecuador and Thailand
• Private company in negotiating Mineral Development Agreement with Native American Indian Tribe and joint venture with independent energy company for field exploration and development
• Major energy company in its acquisition of a U.S. gas marketing company
• Private U.S. exploration and production company in connection with the sale of $120 million of domestic onshore producing properties
• European energy company in its disposition of its interest in a Dominican Republic power plant
• Selling shareholders in connection with the sale of the stock of an oil field services company to publicly traded buyer, including related real estate lease
• U.S. oil and gas company in connection with its development of an LNG facility in Canada and associated downstream gas sales agreements
• European-based energy company in connection with its acquisition of a minority interest in the Camisea LNG project and related upstream assets, and an LNG sales and purchase agreement for all of the LNG produced at the Camisea liquefaction facility
• European energy company in the charter of LNG vessels trading between the Middle East, Europe and the United States
• European-based energy company in connection with the formation of a joint venture to upgrade and expand a petrochemical plant and related facilities in Libya
• U.S. energy company in connection with voyage charters for the transportation of coal from Colombia to New York
• Spanish and Russian energy company in connection with LNG sale and purchase agreements for the Atlantic and Pacific basins
• U.S. oil and gas company’s private placement of convertible debt totaling $37.5 million
• U.S. hedge fund, serving as both lender and agent, in connection with a $70 million senior secured credit facility to a maritime construction company and take out of existing lenders and credit facilities
• Initial purchaser and placement agent in the first ever broadly distributed private placement of oil and gas MLP units totaling approximately $115 million
• Private equity, venture capital firms and private investors in creating various types of entities for the purpose of investing in and acquiring producing properties in the onshore and offshore Gulf Coast regions, California, on Indian Tribal Lands in Montana and various other areas

*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.

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