Overview
Jibin T. Luke represents business owners and investors with structuring and negotiating mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, energy transactions, equity investments and other general corporate matters. He regularly advises clients on domestic and international transactions, corporate governance matters, private debt and equity financing, regulatory matters and portfolio company investments.
Jibin represents clients in the acquisition and sale of energy, manufacturing, technology and service-related companies, and negotiating and securing financing. He has experience preparing and negotiating purchase and sale agreements (asset and equity), joint venture agreements, joint operating agreements, partnership agreements, limited liability company agreements, transportation and gathering agreements, employment and consulting agreements, credit and security agreements and master service agreements.
Results
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Represented a Chinese investment consortium in its US $1.2 billion acquisition of oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin from two private equity backed companies*
- Represented a Chinese investment consortium in its US $315 million acquisition of oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin from a private equity backed company*
- Represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund in the US $160 million sale of its oil and gas assets to a strategic buyer backed by a Chinese private equity fund*
- Represented a major international exploration and production company in its dispositions of its JV interest for US $128 million*
- Represented an automotive retailing solutions company in its US $120 million acquisition of a company engaged in the business of e-mail marketing services and newsletter management*
- Represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund in the US $44 million sale of its oil and gas assets in the Appalachian basin to a strategic buyer*
- Represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund in the US $18 million sale of its oil and gas assets in the Appalachian basin to a strategic buyer*
- Represented a global distressed investment and liquidation firm in the acquisition of the assets of and recapitalization of, a premier fixture and equipment liquidation company*
- Represented an independent oil and gas company of its disposition of its oil and gas assets in Nacogdoches County, Texas for US $28 million to a strategic buyer*
- Represented a major international exploration and production company in its disposition of its East Texas upstream assets for US$44 million*
- Represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund in the US $26 million sale of its oil and gas assets in Texas*
- Represented various independent oil and gas companies in the US $18 million divesture of their non-operated oil and gas assets in Texas and New Mexico*
- Represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund in its US $18 million purchase of a company that distributes industrial engineered products for customers in the refining, petrochemical, engineering, construction and oil and gas industries*
- Represented an industrial component manufacturer doing business in the US and Canada in its US $50 million acquisition by a portfolio company of a UK private equity firm*
- Represented an automotive retailing solutions company in its US $32 million acquisition of a company engaged in the business of data mining and business intelligence for the automobile industry*
- Represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund in its US $36 million acquisition of a company that provides credentialing services in the healthcare industry*
- Represented an oil field services company in its US $14 million acquisition of a company engaged in the well testing/flow-back business*
- Represented a valve repair and distribution company servicing the refining, petrochemical and pipeline industries in its US $11 million acquisition of a valve engineering company*
- Represented a private equity fund in its US $37 million platform acquisition of a company that provides groundwater solutions including the sale, rental, removal and abandonment of dewatering and/or pumping equipment and turnkey construction dewatering services*
- Represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund in its US $22 million acquisition of a company that distributes refractory materials, performing refractory installations and refractory consulting*
- Represented a major Texas-based manufacturing company in the US $27 million acquisition of another manufacturing company*
- Represented a portfolio company of a private equity firm in its US $25 million purchase of a company selling industrial hoses, power transmission belts, valves, pumps and fittings*
- Represented an energy software company in its US $13 million acquisition by a Fortune 500 Company*
- Represented a US steel distribution company in its US $20 million acquisition of a steel fabricator and distributor operating in the Republic of Colombia*
Corporate Finance and Venture Capital
- Represented an independent oil and gas company in obtaining a US $500 million loan from a major national bank*
- Represented an independent oil and gas operator in obtaining a US $150 million loan from a major national bank*
- Represented a startup medical device company in a US$3.1million private placement
- Represented a commercial shopping center investor in a US $6.1million private placement for the purchase of a shopping center in Houston*
Regulatory
- Successfully represented a Chinese investment consortium before CFIUS in its US $1.2 billion acquisition of oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin*
- Successfully represented a Chinese investment consortium before CFIUS in its US $315 million acquisition of oil and gas assets in the Permian Basin*
- Successfully represented a portfolio company of a private equity fund before CFIUS in its US $160 million divesture of oil and gas assets*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.
Recognitions
- Chambers USA
- Corporate/M&A, Texas
- Nationwide Energy: Oil & Gas
Community
- American Bar Association Energy Law Section, member
- Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, member
- State Bar of Texas, member
Credentials
Education
University of Houston Law Center, LLM, Taxation, 2009
Texas Tech University, MBA, 2008
Texas Tech University, JD, 2008
Texas A&M University, BA, 2005
Admissions
Texas