Bradley Potts
Biography
Bradley Potts is an associate in the Energy, Power and Natural Resources Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Houston office. His practice focuses on a broad variety of energy-related transactions, including oil, natural gas, and renewable energy. He handles complex upstream and midstream oil and gas transactions as well as power and renewables matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and financings. Bradley’s recent transactions include purchase and sale agreements, membership interest purchase agreements, joint development agreements, reserve based financings, securitizations, forbearance agreements, oilfield services contracts, power purchase agreements, ISDA Master Agreements and many other transactions across the energy industry. He has represented clients in connection with oil and gas plays across the country, including several offshore transactions in the Gulf of Mexico.
Bradley graduated summa cum laude from Southern Methodist University with a B.B.A. in Business Management, a B.A. in Political Science with distinction, honors in the liberal arts, and a minor in public policy and international affairs through the Tower Scholars Program. He earned his J.D. from the University of Texas School of law with High Honors and as a member of the Order of the Coif and Chancellors List. At Texas Law, he served as the Managing Editor for the Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law, and he was an Associate Editor for the Texas Law Review. Among other recognitions, Bradley earned the Beck Award, Texas Law’s top 1L legal writing honor.
Bradley is also one of the youngest professors at Texas Law, serving as an Adjunct Professor teaching a course on finance transactions titled “Navigating Credit Agreements: Finance Practice Fundamentals.”
Bradley Potts is an associate in the Energy, Power and Natural Resources Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Houston office. His practice focuses on a broad variety of energy-related transactions, including oil, natural gas, and renewable energy. He handles complex upstream and midstream oil and gas transactions as well as power and renewables matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and financings. Bradley’s recent transactions include purchase and sale agreements, membership interest purchase agreements, joint development agreements, reserve based financings, securitizations, forbearance agreements, oilfield services contracts, power purchase agreements, ISDA Master Agreements and many other transactions across the energy industry. He has represented clients in connection with oil and gas plays across the country, including several offshore transactions in the Gulf of Mexico.
Bradley graduated summa cum laude from Southern Methodist University with a B.B.A. in Business Management, a B.A. in Political Science with distinction, honors in the liberal arts, and a minor in public policy and international affairs through the Tower Scholars Program. He earned his J.D. from the University of Texas School of law with High Honors and as a member of the Order of the Coif and Chancellors List. At Texas Law, he served as the Managing Editor for the Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law, and he was an Associate Editor for the Texas Law Review. Among other recognitions, Bradley earned the Beck Award, Texas Law’s top 1L legal writing honor.
Bradley is also one of the youngest professors at Texas Law, serving as an Adjunct Professor teaching a course on finance transactions titled “Navigating Credit Agreements: Finance Practice Fundamentals.”
- Represented an affiliate of an international fund in connection with its sale of real estate located in California, with aggregate consideration in excess of $350,000,000.
- Represented GOM 1 Holdings Inc., an affiliate of O.G. Oil & Gas Limited, in its acquisition of non-operated interests in deepwater offshore Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields, including interests in the Buckskin, Castile, Leon and Sicily leases, from affiliates of Beacon Offshore Energy LLC, through the purchase and sale of membership interest, working interest and overriding royalty interest.
- Assisted in the representation of OGOG (K2) Inc., an affiliate of O.G. Oil & Gas Limited, in its acquisition of non-operated interests in deepwater Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields, from Eni Petroleum US LLC.
- Represented a private, international chemical science company in the negotiation and documentation of its finance, debt and business restructuring, including the negotiation of international security instruments and loan documents.
- Represented an international, independent power generation company in connection with its North American operations, including the drafting and negotiation of master service agreements, hedging instruments, power purchase agreements, offtake agreements, nondisclosure agreements, engagement agreements, employment agreements, purchase and sale agreements and other operational agreements.
- Represented a private midstream natural gas company in the negotiation of Master Services Agreements and Engineering, Procurement and Construction Agreements.
- Assisted in the representation of IKAV Impact USA Inc., a U.S. based subsidiary of an international asset management group, in its $4 billion acquisition of California-based oil and gas producer Aera Energy LLC and subsidiaries through two separate transactions with joint venture subsidiaries of ExxonMobil and Shell.
- Represented secured commodity hedge provider in the negotiation of a lien secured hedge facility in connection with a $636 million asset-backed securitization and issuance of multi-tranche secured notes.
- Represented a private E&P company in connection with the negotiation and documentation of a complex, underwritten first and second lien financing totaling commitments in excess of $1.4 billion.
- Represented a private E&P company in connection with its underwritten acquisition finance and the subsequent negotiation and documentation of its $750,000,000 reserve-based credit facility.
- Represented Callon Petroleum Company in the sale of all its Eagle Ford oil and gas assets to Ridgemar Energy Operating, LLC for $655 million in cash with an additional contingent consideration of up to $45 million.
- Represented Callon Petroleum Company in its $475 million acquisition of the Midland Basin assets of Percussion Petroleum Operating II, LLC, with contingent consideration up to $62.5 million.
- Represented a public oil and gas company in the sale of approximately 45 producing wells and 2,000 net acres in the Midland Basin to an independent E&P company.
- Represented a public oil and gas company in the sale of its Midland Basin assets to an independent E&P company.
- Adjunct Professor, The University of Texas School of Law, “Navigating Credit Agreements: Finance Practice Fundamentals”
- Tower Center Alumni Board, John G. Tower Center for Public Policy and International Affairs, Southern Methodist University
- Class of 2022 Alumni Committee, University of Texas School of Law
- “Recent Trends in Upstream Oil and Gas A&D,” 19th Annual TJOGEL Symposium, speaker, February 23, 2024.
- "Produced Water Ownership in Texas: Is Cactus Water the Answer?" co-author, Haynes Boone client alert, August 16, 2023.
- “Texas Oil and Gas Severance Taxes: An Overview of Current Law and New Legislative Changes,” co-author, Haynes Boone client alert, July 26, 2023.
- “How Do Oil and Gas Companies Create an ESG Policy That Is Not a Policy of ‘Transition to Extinction’?” co-author, Pratt’s Energy Law Report Volume 10, November-December 2020.
Education
J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 2022, high honors, Order of the Coif, Chancellor-at-Large; Managing Editor, Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law; Associate Editor, Texas Law Review
B.B.A., Business Management, Southern Methodist University, 2019, summa cum laude, Standard Bearer
B.A., Political Science, minor in Public Policy and International Affairs, Southern Methodist University, 2019, summa cum laude, Honors in the Liberal Arts, with Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, Standard Bearer
Admissions
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Haynes Boone Counsels GOM 1 Holdings Inc. in Purchase of Offshore Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Assets
April 16, 2024
