The Blackstone Group will buy Royal Dutch Shell's 50 percent stake in a joint venture in Haynesville Shale. The acquisition marks yet another private equity deal led by corporate partner Andrew Calder, a former partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, which has gone head-to-head with Kirkland & Ellis in that space.
August 14, 2014 at 10:59 PM
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Private equity firm The Blackstone Group said on Thursday that it would buy Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s 50 percent stake in a joint venture in Haynesville Shale, a shale-gas field in Louisiana, for $1.2 billion in cash.
Blackstone will make the investment through Vine Oil & Gas, a new Dallas-based exploration and production company established by the private equity firm earlier this year, and its Blackstone Energy Partners.
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