Malakeh Hijazi

Malakeh Hijazi is an associate in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she currently practices with the firm’s Capital Markets and Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance practice groups. She represents public and private businesses in a broad range of corporate and securities matters. Malakeh represents issuers and investment banking firms in both equity and debt offerings, including Rule 144A offerings.

Her practice also includes general corporate counseling to public and private companies and securities regulation and SEC reporting counseling, including Exchange Act reporting, stock exchange compliance and beneficial ownership reporting matters.

Selected Experience*

High-Yield and Private Debt Offerings

• Aris Water Solutions, Inc. in its $500 million offering of senior notes
• Noble Corporation plc in its $800 million add-on offering of senior notes to finance its acquisition of Diamond Offshore Drilling
• Schlumberger Holdings Corporation, a subsidiary of Schlumberger N.V., in its $1 billion offering of senior notes
• Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., in its $1 billion offering of senior notes and the related SEC-registered exchange offer for such notes
• Star Leasing Company, LLC, a portfolio company of I Squared Capital Advisors (US) LLC, in its $700 million debut offering of secured notes
• Gran Tierra Energy Inc. in its $100 million re-opening of senior secured amortizing notes
• Neptune BidCo US, an affiliate of Nielsen Holdings Limited, in its offering of $1.96 billion and subsequent add-on of $650 million of senior secured notes
• ProFrac Holdings Corp. in its private placement of $120 million of senior secured notes
• Initial purchasers to Great Western Petroleum, LLC in its $235 million offering of convertible senior notes
• CVR Energy, Inc. in its $1 billion offering of senior notes
• Sunnova Energy International Inc. in its $500 million offering of convertible senior notes
• Summit Midstream Partners, LP in its $700 million offering of second lien senior secured notes and exchange offer of fixed-to-floating rate preferred units for common units
• Initial purchasers to Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited in its offering of $750 million of senior notes
• Initial purchasers to Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC in its debut offering of $400 million of senior notes
• Initial purchasers to Shelf Drilling Holdings, Ltd. in its offering of $310 million senior secured first lien notes with original issue discount

Registered Debt Offerings

• Accenture plc in its inaugural notes offering of $5 billion of senior notes
• Underwriters to Waste Management, Inc. in over $10 billion in offerings of senior notes, including in its obligor exchange and debt tender offers of multiple series of notes
• Underwriters to Vale S.A. and its subsidiary Vale Overseas Limited in its offerings of over $3.25 billion of guaranteed notes and in its related debt tender offers of multiple series of notes
• Ovintiv Inc. in its $2.3 billion offering of senior notes
• Underwriters to Western Midstream Partners, LP in its offerings of over $1.5 billion of senior notes
• Underwriters to Enbridge Inc. in its offerings of $2 billion of fixed-rate senior notes; $750 million of floating rate senior notes; $1 billion of fixed-to-fixed rate subordinated notes; and $1.5 billion of inaugural sustainability-linked senior notes
• Underwriters to Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC in its $575 million public offering of debt securities and $925 million public offering of debt securities

IPO and Equity Offerings

• Underwriters to LandBridge Company LLC in its initial public offering of limited liability company interests and concurrent private placement and to the placement agents in a subsequent private placement of limited liability company interests
• Diversified Energy Company PLC in its debut US offering of ordinary shares
• SilverBow Resources, Inc. in its primary and secondary offerings of common stock
• Ovintiv Inc. in its secondary offering of common stock
• Underwriters to NuStar Energy L.P. in its add-on offering of common units
• Sunnova Energy International Inc. in its secondary offering of $100.3 million of Sunnova’s common stock and secondary offering of $250 million of common stock and combined primary follow-on and secondary offering of $259 million of common stock
• Underwriters to Liberty Oilfield Services Inc. in its $99.6 million bought deal of secondary common stock and $191.9 million bought deal of secondary common stock

Select Publications and Community Involvement

• Webcast Presenter: “Unlocking Value: The What, Why and How of Spin-Offs” (May 2024)
• Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Monitor post: "Reminder For Resource Extraction Issuers: Form SD Due September 2024" (April 2024)
• Member of Institute for Energy Law’s 7th Leadership Class and Young Energy Professionals Programs Committee, Member of Society for Corporate Governance and Member of Women’s Energy Network (Houston Chapter)

Malakeh graduated magna cum laude from Tulane University Law School and received her MBA from A.B. Freeman School of Business with a focus in finance, where she was elected to the Beta Gamma Sigma. Prior to law school, she received a Master’s degree from London Metropolitan University and graduated with high honors.

* Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Capabilities

• Capital Markets
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance

Credentials

Education:

• Tulane University - 2019 MBA
• Tulane University - 2019 Juris Doctor
• London Metropolitan University - 2015 Master of Arts
• Tulane University - 2014 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• Texas Bar