Counsel

Andrew P. Heather

Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Global Energy

Houston +1 713 238 2469

aheather@mayerbrown.com

Overview

Andrew P. Heather is counsel in Mayer Brown’s Mergers and Acquisitions and Global Energy & Infrastructure groups.

Andrew advises corporate clients and private equity funds (and their portfolio companies) on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, divestitures and carve-outs, joint ventures, recapitalizations, and other corporate matters, across a broad spectrum of industries.

Andrew also represents sponsors, project developers, borrowers, financial institutions, private equity funds and other capital providers and investors in the energy and infrastructure industries.

Experience

SK Group in an investment agreement and partnership with World Energy GH2 for the construction and development of a $4.5 billion green hydrogen project located in Newfoundland, Canada.
Atlas Holdings in a variety of acquisitions and divestments in the industrials sector, including its acquisition of USF Holdings from the Gores Group.
Cardinal Midstream in the acquisition of Medallion Delaware Basin, LLC from Medallion Midstream Services, LLC.
NextEra Energy in various acquisitions of digital infrastructure assets.
One of the largest operators of cryptocurrency data centers in its acquisition by a leading cryptocurrency infrastructure firm.

Guggenheim Partners on various equity investments totaling multiple billions USD, including preferred equity financings of three fiber network operators and a major home healthcare services provider.
Elbit Systems in its $380 million acquisition of Sparton Corporation, a key supplier of undersea warfare systems to the U.S. Navy, from an affiliate of Cerberus Capital.
Grupo Interproteccion in a media-for-equity investment by TelevisaUnivision, and related spin-off of its B2C business.
Irradiant Partners in a $100 million preferred equity financing of PosiGen, a leading provider of renewable energy and efficiency solutions for low to moderate income households.
Oakhill Advisors in a $500 preferred equity commitment to Bluesource for the development of forest carbon offsets.
The Walt Disney Company in the sale of its FOX Sports Mexico assets to Grupo Lauman.
Korea Electric Power Corporation and Sprott Korea in the acquisition of Canadian Solar’s 49% interest in three photovoltaic projects in Mexico and their agreement to acquire Canadian Solar’s remaining interest in the projects following their commercial operation date.
Prisma Medios de Pago, Argentina’s leading payments company, in its sale to Advent International.
IAC/InterActiveCorp in the structuring, negotiation and execution of equity derivatives transactions to hedge $1.15 billion of exchangeable notes, and the spin-off of the Match Group.
The Murdoch Family Trust in the negotiation and execution of a stockholders agreement with FOX Corporation in connection with the company’s announced $2 billion stock repurchase program.
Johnson & Johnson on multiple acquisitions and divestitures in the medical devices sector.
Trafigura in its approximately $200 million joint venture with IEnova to develop a refined products marine terminal and storage facility in Manzanillo, Mexico.
Blackstone and portfolio company Fisterra Energy in the $852 million sale of the Ventika wind generation facilities, the largest wind farm in Mexico and one of the largest in Latin America, to IEnova.
Ascent Resources in its equity investment by Riverstone and the simultaneous acquisition of Utica Shale assets from Salt Fork Resources, a Riverstone-backed company.
Warburg Pincus in a $300 million capital commitment to Citizen Energy Holdings.
Bonanza Creek Energy on its proposed $746 million sale to SandRidge Energy.
Warburg Pincus in its lead role in a $1.3 billion line of equity commitment to Venari Resources.
Lotte Chemical USA Corporation in an $89 million sale of a joint venture equity interest to an affiliate of Westlake Corporation.
Sixth Street Partners in a Series C preferred equity financing of Piano Software, a B2B software provider.
Uber Technologies and its affiliate Aleka Insurance in a $345 million loss portfolio transfer reinsurance transaction with James River, under which Aleka will reinsure all of James River’s commercial auto policies related to Uber’s ridesharing business.
EMX Capital in its approximately $100 million GP-led secondary restructuring. This deal was the first of its kind in Mexico, and among the first in Latin America.
Merck & Co. on its global reorganization in connection with the $9 billion spin-off of its women’s health, trusted legacy brands and biosimilars businesses.
Monster Beverage Corporation on regulatory and strategic matters across the Americas.
Colbeck Capital in a distressed acquisition and subsequent workout in the education sector.
Quintana Energy Services in connection with its out-of-court recapitalization and the restructuring of its revolving credit facility agented by Amegy Bank.
Emerson Electric in its strategic portfolio repositioning, including the sale of its InterMetro business unit to Ali Group and its $3.15 billion acquisition of the Valves & Controls business of Pentair.
An affiliate of Goldman Sachs on its sale of Sigma Electric to Argand Partners.
Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments in its preferred equity investment in Aquilon Energy Services.
PartnerRe in its contested merger with AXIS Capital and subsequent $6.9 billion acquisition by EXOR.
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd in its acquisition of Kapa Biosystems, Inc.
Tailwind Capital and its portfolio company, Long’s Drugs Inc., in its acquisition of Avita Drugs Inc.
Roper Technologies, Inc. on its acquisition of RF IDeas, Inc.
Grupo Televisa in its $745 million acquisition of Cablecom.
GP Investments in the $400 million debt restructuring of an oil & gas portfolio company.

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Recognition

Recognized in The Legal 500 United States for Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power (2022)
Recognized in The Legal 500 for Corporate and M&A: Latin America (2020)

Education

Universidad Iberoamericana, JD
Stanford Law School, LLM

Admissions

New York
Texas
Mexico