Shamus M. Crosby

Recognized for his corporate transactional work by IFLR1000, Shamus Crosby is a Partner based in Simpson Thacher’s Houston office. Shamus has significant experience advising sponsors and strategic investors in a broad range of corporate transactions across the energy and infrastructure sectors, including renewable power generation and storage, upstream and midstream oil and gas, LNG, energy transition, telecommunications, digital infrastructure and transportation. Shamus counsels his private equity clients and their portfolio companies through the entire investment lifecycle, from initial investments and buyouts to structured capital raises and exit transactions. Shamus also represents public companies in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions and strategic investments.

Recent experience includes representation of:

• KKR in its $3.38 billion acquisition of a non-controlling interest in Sempra Infrastructure Partners
• KKR in its investment in MetroNet, the nation’s largest independently owned, 100 percent fiber optic network provider
• KKR in its acquisition of Boasso Global, the premier provider of depot, maintenance, cleaning, and transportation services for ISO tank containers in North America
• KKR and Boasso Global in Boasso’s pending merger with Q Super Holdings, Inc.
• KKR as a shareholder of Metronet in Metronet’s merger with Vexus
• Apollo Infrastructure in its preferred equity investment in FirstDigital, a leading fiber-based carrier in the western United States
• WhiteWater Midstream, First Infrastructure Capital and Ridgemont Equity Partners in their sale of a controlling interest in the Whistler Pipeline
• WhiteWater Midstream in the formation of a joint venture to construct the Matterhorn Express Pipeline
• Manchester Energy Partners in its partnership with EnCap Flatrock Midstream
• Riverstone Credit Partners and Summit Credit Partners in connection with the formation of a renewables joint venture with Peabody Energy
• Riverstone in providing project financing for IM3NY’s construction of a Lithium-Ion Gigafactory
• Bighorn Permian Resources in its announced $860 million sale to Earthstone Energy Inc.
• Private equity-backed operator in a development capital raise for a U.S. carbon capture and sequestration project
• CIM Group in its preferred equity investment in Bolder Industries, an operator of end-of-life tire recycling plants
• Angelo Gordon in connection with a debt-for-equity exchange with Abraxas Petroleum
• Private Marcellus Basin oil and gas company in a sale of the company
• Apollo Global Management, Ares, Angelo Gordon and Morgan Stanley in the sale of Sundance Energy to Silverbow Resources

Selected experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes:

• KKR in equity commitments to Javelin Energy Partners and Western Natural Resources
• Centennial Resource Production in the approximately $1.39 billion sale to Silver Run Acquisition Corporation in a SPAC business combination
• First Reserve in its acquisition of Lamons Gasket Co. from Trimas Corporation
• First Reserve in its $1.225 billion sale of Deep Gulf Energy Companies to Kosmos Energy
• Covey Park Energy in its $2.2 billion merger with Comstock Resources and in its $225 million private placement of Series A preferred units to KKR and Magnetar
• Double Eagle Energy Permian in its $2.8 billion sale of oil and gas properties to Parsley Energy
• Vantage Energy in its $2.8 billion sale Rice Energy, Inc.
• Northstar Terminals in the sale of its Port Arthur Terminal project to Colonial Pipeline Company
• Enbridge Energy Partners in a $2.6 billion joint venture with Marathon Petroleum Corporation to construct the Sandpiper pipeline project
• Noble Midstream Partners in a $200 million preferred equity commitment from Global Infrastructure Partners

Shamus received his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 2009 and his B.A. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. Shamus is admitted to practice in Texas.