James Chenoweth is a partner and a member of the firm’s Tax, Private Equity and Energy and Infrastructure practice groups. He structures partnership and corporate transactions, including M&A, joint ventures, simplifications, acquisitions and dispositions, and those involving special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”), publicly traded partnerships, and capital markets activities.

Chambers USA ranked Mr. Chenoweth in band 3 in Texas for the category of Tax, noting sources hail him as “very intelligent, very energetic and a good advocate for tax,” as well as “very knowledgeable in partnership and M&A matters, and very responsive” (2019) and having “extraordinary technical knowledge” and “incredibly attentive client service“ (2018). He has also been recognized in Texas Super Lawyer – Rising Stars (2008-2009, 2014-2019).

Practitioners regard Mr. Chenoweth as an expert in oil and gas and partnership taxation, where he has presented on the topics this year with Kevin Richards of EY at Practising Law Institute’s Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances (New York, Chicago, and San Francisco) and Mike Nydegger at BP at the Tax Executive Institute’s Tax School (Houston).

Representative Matters

• Sophisticated real estate joint venture agreements developing California, Tennessee, and Florida projects and related credit facility agreements
• Investment firm’s partnership merger acquisition with a New York investment advisory firm
• Intrepid Partners, financial advisor to the conflicts committee of PBF Logistics LP in its $215 million IDR simplification
• Evercore, financial advisor to the boards of (i) Enbridge Energy Partners L.P. in its proposed acquisition by Enbridge Inc. and (ii) EQT Midstream, in EQT Midstream’s merger with Rice Midstream
• Piper Jaffray & Co., financial advisor to Select Energy Services, in its Up-C merger with Rockwater Energy Solutions
• ArcLight Capital Partners in its $1.12 billion acquisition of Enbridge Inc.’s U.S. midstream business
• EnerVest in its $2.66 billion SPAC related Up-C transaction with Magnolia Oil & Gas
• Privately held partnerships controlled by Jerry Jones in their $620 million in oil and gas combination for control of Comstock Resources, Inc.
• American Midstream Partners, LP – $278 million going private transaction with ArcLight; $815 million proposed acquisition of Southcross Energy Partners, L.P. and substantially all of its sponsor’s assets; and $170 million sale of propane marketing and services business to SHV Energy N.V.
• Private equity fund’s purchase of $300 million of 7% Series B Cumulative Preferred Units issued by Black Stone Minerals, L.P.
• Penn Virginia Corporation’s $205 million acquisition of certain Eagle Ford assets from Devon Corporation

Mr. Chenoweth earned his J.D. in 2004 and LL.M. in taxation in 2005 from New York University School of Law. He graduated in 2001 with Honors from The University of Texas at Austin, where he earned Phi Beta Kappa and a B.A. in government.