Kene Obi is an associate in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He currently practices in the firm’s Oil and Gas, Energy, Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions practice groups.
Kene also advises and represents private equity clients and their portfolio companies and management teams in connection with a variety of transactions, including drillcos, mergers and acquisitions (including upstream and midstream transactions), joint venture arrangements, dispositions and other general corporate matters.
He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He also received a B.A., with Honors, in Physics, from Grinnell College, Iowa and an MSc., in Electrical and Systems Engineering, from Washington University in St. Louis.
Kene is admitted to practice law in the State of Texas.
Representative Transactions*
- Diversified Energy Company in its acquisition of certain oil and gas assets located in Texas for $106 million.
- Coterra Energy Inc. in its acquisition of the equity interests of Franklin Mountain Energy Holdings, L.P. and certain of its affiliates for a total consideration of approximately $2.5 billion.
- Coterra Energy Inc. in its acquisition of certain oil and gas assets located in New Mexico for a total consideration of approximately $1.45 billion.
- VTX Energy Partners, LLC in its sale of 46,000 surface acres in the Southern Delaware Basin for approximately $245 million.
- Abacus Resources Development, LLC, a portfolio company of Selenite Energy Partners II, LLC, in connection with its strategic investment in the development of oil and gas assets in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.
- Warwick-Helios, LLC, a portfolio company of Warwick Investment Group, in connection with its strategic investment of $150 million in the development of oil and gas assets in the Delaware Basin in Texas.
- HEQ Deepwater II, LLC in its acquisition of certain oil and gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico for a total consideration of $182 million.
- VTX Energy Partners, LLC in its acquisition of the equity interests of Delaware Basin Investment Group, LLC for a total consideration of $1.775 billion.
- Talos Energy Inc. in its the purchase of the equity interests of EnVen Energy Corporation for $1.1 billion.
- Vital Energy, Inc., LLC in its acquisition of the Delaware Basin assets of Tall City Property Holdings III, LLC for $425 million.
- EnCap Investments L.P. in its $4.275 billion sale of substantially all leasehold interest and related assets of Black Swan Oil & Gas, PetroLegacy Energy and Piedra Resources to Ovintiv Inc.
- Enbridge Inc. in its acquisition of the equity interests of a company group that owned renewable natural gas projects worth approximately $1.2 billion.
- Moda Midstream, LLC in its $3 billion sale of the equity interests of a subsidiary of Moda Midstream, LLC.
- Targa Resources Corp. in its $3.55 billion acquisition of Lucid Energy, a company that provides natural gas gathering, treating and processing services in the Delaware Basin, from Riverstone Holdings and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
- Momentum Minerals Operating, LP in its sale of over 12,200 NRAs in the Permian Basin for approximately $224 million.
* Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Capabilities
- Oil and Gas
- Energy and Infrastructure
- Infrastructure
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Power and Renewables
- Private Equity
- Projects
Credentials
Education:
- Harvard University - 2020 Juris Doctor
- Washington University in St. Louis - 2012 Master of Science
- Grinnell College - 2009 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- Texas Bar