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Joanna D. Enns
Joanna D. Enns
Counsel — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions
Counsel — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions

Joanna D. Enns

Joanna D. Enns
Dallas

Trammell Crow Center
2001 Ross Avenue
Suite 3900
Dallas, Texas 75201

Joanna D. Enns

Experience Highlights

  • CrownRock, a joint venture of CrownQuest Operating and Lime Rock Partners, in its $12 billion sale to Occidental (In Process)

  • Baytex Energy Corp. in its $2.5 billion acquisition of  Ranger Oil Corporation and $800 million offering of senior notes

  • Initial purchasers in the $1.2 billion offering of senior notes by Transocean Inc.; $325 million offering of senior notes by Transocean Aquila Limited; and $525 million offering of senior notes by Transocean Titan Financing Limited

  • Woodside Energy Group Ltd in its merger with BHP Petroleum with an approximately US $43 billion merged entity value and concurrent listing of American Depositary Shares (ADSs) on the NYSE

  • Pioneer Natural Resources Company in liability management transactions in connection with its $6.4 billion acquisition of DoublePoint Energy, including the redemption of DoublePoint’s $650 million principal amount of high yield senior notes with the proceeds of a $750 million public investment grade offering of senior notes

  • A leading international bank in its $500 million inaugural green bond offering

  • Bonanza Creek Energy in a merger to acquire HighPoint Resources Corporation, including a registered exchange offer and consent solicitation by Bonanza Creek for $625 million high yield senior notes of HighPoint Resources, and simultaneous registered solicitation by HighPoint of a prepackaged plan of reorganization under Chapter 11, which was followed by two subsequent out-of-court mergers and acquisitions by the combined company, resulting in a company with total expected enterprise value of $4.5 billion

  • Jonah Energy in connection with its out-of-court restructuring, which deleveraged the Company’s balance sheet by approximately $580 million through a combination of transactions including a cash tender offer for any and all of Jonah’s existing senior unsecured notes, the redemption of all non-tendered notes, a fully-backstopped equity rights offering to fund $85 million of new equity investment from all eligible existing noteholders, and entry into an amended and restated credit facility with an initial borrowing base of $750 million

  • Southwest Airlines Co. in its funding from the United States Department of Treasury of $4.93 billion under the Payroll Support Program of the CARES Act and the extensions of that program, and in its negotiations of the related loans, warrants, and other agreements

  • Routinely advises publicly traded companies on 1933 Act and 1934 Act compliance, listing exchange requirements, and ESG matters (including corporate governance and board of directors matters)

  • Pioneer Natural Resources Company in its $1.1 billion public offering of investment grade senior notes

  • A leading international bank in its $500 million inaugural green bond offering

  • Pioneer Natural Resources Company in liability management transactions in connection with its $6.4 billion acquisition of DoublePoint Energy, including the redemption of DoublePoint’s $650 million principal amount of high yield senior notes with the proceeds of a $750 million public investment grade offering of senior notes

  • Pioneer Natural Resources Company in its $1.1 billion public offering of investment grade senior notes

  • Southwest Airlines Co. in its $2.3 billion public offering of convertible senior notes

  • A multinational conglomerate in its secondary offering and concurrent private sale of common stock of a fullstream provider of integrated oilfield products, services and digital solutions

  • A major foreign financial services company in its U.S. senior and subordinated notes program

  • Enviva Inc. in its $250 million private placement of Series A convertible preferred units

  • Baytex Energy Corp. in its $800 million offering of senior notes

  • Enviva Inc. in its $100 million green bond offering

  • Initial purchasers in the $1.2 billion offering of senior notes by Transocean Inc.

  • Initial purchasers in the $525 million offering of senior notes by Transocean Titan Financing Limited

  • Initial purchasers in the $325 million offering of senior notes by Transocean Aquila Limited

  • CrownRock, L.P. in its $400 million offering of senior notes

  • Pioneer Natural Resources Company in its $1.3 billion 144A offering of convertible senior notes with a capped call and its concurrent cash tender offers for existing senior notes

  • Oaktree Capital in the purchase of a $497 million loan portfolio from Hancock Whitney, including reserve-based, midstream and nondrilling service credits

  • A commercial finance company in its 144A high yield offerings of senior secured and unsecured notes

  • The initial purchasers in the inaugural U.S. 144A/Reg S high yield offering of senior secured second lien notes by a foreign junior diamond mining company

  • The initial purchasers in the inaugural international offering by a South American sovereign of locally governed bonds and the dealer managers of a subsequent tender offer for the same bonds

  • Pioneer Natural Resources Company in liability management transactions in connection with its $6.4 billion acquisition of DoublePoint Energy, including the redemption of DoublePoint’s $650 million principal amount of high yield senior notes with the proceeds of a $750 million public investment grade offering of senior notes

  • Jonah Energy in connection with its out-of-court restructuring, which deleveraged the Company’s balance sheet by approximately $580 million through a combination of transactions including a cash tender offer for any and all of Jonah’s existing senior unsecured notes, the redemption of all non-tendered notes, a fully-backstopped equity rights offering to fund $85 million of new equity investment from all eligible existing noteholders, and entry into an amended and restated credit facility with an initial borrowing base of $750 million

  • The initial purchasers in a 144A offering of senior secured second lien notes by a coal mining company

  • Initial NYSE listing for a TSX-listed Canadian mining exploration company

  • Switchback II Corporation, a SPAC, in its $316 million initial public offering of units

  • Underwriters to AF Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, in its $224 million initial public offering of units

  • A foreign biotech company in its initial public offering and listing of American Depositary Shares on Nasdaq

  • CrownRock, a joint venture of CrownQuest Operating and Lime Rock Partners, in its $12 billion sale to Occidental (In Process)

  • Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation II, a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Riverstone Holdings, in its $1.2 billion business combination with Tritium, a Brisbane-based developer and manufacturer of direct current fast chargers for electric vehicles

  • Mubadala Investment Company, a minority owner of Virgin Orbit, a responsive launch space solutions company, in the $3 billion business combination between Virgin Orbit and NextGen Acquisition Corp. II

  • Bonanza Creek Energy in a merger to acquire HighPoint Resources Corporation, including a registered exchange offer and consent solicitation by Bonanza Creek for $625 million high yield senior notes of HighPoint Resources, and simultaneous registered solicitation by HighPoint of a prepackaged plan of reorganization under Chapter 11, which was followed by two subsequent out-of-court mergers and acquisitions by the combined company, resulting in a company with total expected enterprise value of $4.5 billion

  • The initial purchasers in acquisition financings and liability management transactions for a beverage services company

Credentials

  • Osgoode Hall Law School, J.D. Bronze Medalist, 2014
  • York University, I.B.A. History summa cum laude, 2010
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Securities/Capital Markets Law (Dallas), 2023 and 2024
  • New York
  • Texas