Julian Seiguer

Partner, Vinson & Elkins, Houston

Julian Seiguer's principal areas of practice are corporate finance and securities law, including securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate representation. His capital markets experience includes representation of both issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings, as well as public and private offerings of equity and debt securities. Seiguer also works with public and private companies (including private equity funds and their portfolio companies) in connection with mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and strategic investments. Since joining V&E in 2011 and being named partner in 2016, Seiguer has been key to V&E's success in the capital markets space, serving as a go-to adviser representing both issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings, as well as public and private offerings of equity and debt securities. Since Jan. 1, 2016 alone, he has represented either the issuer or the underwriter in more than 30 securities offerings with a transactional value in excess of $17.8 billion, including seven IPOs with a total transactional value in excess of $2.7 billion. Seiguer's notable recent representations include: Parsley Energy Inc. in several transactions: $1.3 billion public offering of Class A common stock; $450 million offering of senior notes; $886 million public offering of Class A common stock; and $650 million offering of senior notes. Also, RSP Permian Inc. in its $585 million public offering of common stock, its $450 million offering of senior notes and its $1 billion public offering of common stock, as well as Underwriters to Antero Midstream Partners LP in its $227 million public offering of common units. His M&As include RSP Permian, Inc. in definitive agreements to acquire Silver Hill Energy Partners LLC and Silver Hill E&P II LLC for $1.25 billion of cash and 31.0 million shares of RSP common stock in aggregate, implying a total purchase price of approximately $2.4 billion; Vantage Energy LLC and Vantage Energy II LLC (collectively, Vantage Energy) in a purchase and sale agreement with Rice Energy Inc., under which Rice Energy acquired Vantage Energy for approximately $2.7 billion, including the assumption of debt.