Shubi Arora, P.C.

Kirkland & Ellis counseled Greenbelt Capital Partners on its strategic investment in CTC Global Corporation. Endeavour Capital was also an investor in the transaction. Based in Irvine, California, CTC specializes in engineering and manufacturing advanced conductor cores for high-voltage transmission cables. The company’s cutting-edge ACCC® Conductors have been successfully installed in over 1,250 projects across 60 countries by more than 250 utilities. Read CTC’s press release here The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Jhett Nelson, Shubi Arora and Zahra Usmani with assistance from corporate associates Michael Goodrich, William Kelly, and Pi Praveen; tax partners Vin Thorn and Liam Murphy and associate Christian Ekins; international trade & national security partners Luci Hague and Mario Mancuso and associate Brandon Ricaurte; and executive compensation partners Stephen Jacobson and Jabir Yusoff and associate Dillon Jones.

Feb 12

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Riley Exploration Permian, Inc. (Riley Permian) on its definitive agreement with Conduit Power, LLC to expand the scope of their joint venture, RPC Power, LLC, to build new power generation and storage assets for the sale of energy and ancillary services to ERCOT, the Texas power grid operator. Read Riley Permian’s press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners R.J. Malenfant, Shubi Arora and Patrick Moneypenny and associate Mitch Holliman; and included energy regulatory partner Brooksany Barrowes.

May 22

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Caturus on a definitive agreement with SM Energy Company to acquire SM’s Galvan Ranch assets for a cash purchase price of $950 million. The acquisition includes approximately 60,000 of high quality net acres in South Texas and approximately 250 MMcfe/d of production from 260 producing wells (as of December 2025), with total pro forma net production of approximately 950 MMcfe/d at the time of closing. With Caturus’ acquisition of the Galvan Ranch assets, the company will hold more than 275,000 net acres across the Gulf Coast, and more than 15 years of premium inventory sitting at the front end of the North American cost curve. The Galvan Ranch transaction is expected to close in Q2 2026, subject to customary conditions and regulatory approvals. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Chad Smith, Shawn Beloin, Shubi Arora and Jhett Nelson; debt finance lawyers Rachael Lichman and James Kelly; capital markets lawyer Julian Seiguer; and tax lawyer Mark Dundon.

Feb 18

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis advised Abaco Energy Technologies, a leading global provider of proprietary power section technologies for downhole drilling, completion and remediation operations, on definitive agreements whereby Superior Energy Services, Inc. will acquire Abaco. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2026. Read the transaction press release The Kirkland team included corporate lawyers Stephen Noh, Jack Chadderdon, Shubi Arora, Samantha Siegler, Tyler Ciavarra, Alexa Wachsman, Jon Welfelt and Matt Bartnovsky; tax lawyers Stephen Butler, Brian Senie and Ally Nelson; capital markets lawyers Michael Rigdon, Erin Meziere, Robbie Dillard and Hannah Miller; debt finance lawyers Lucas Spivey, James Bedotto and Jacob Sims; antitrust & competition lawyers Michael Thorpe, Chris Brassfield, Maria Raptis and Nicholas Cagle; environmental transactions lawyers Paul Tanaka and Julie Molina; energy regulatory lawyers Damien Lyster and Ethan Borrasso; employment & labor lawyers Christie Alcala and Frank Policastri; employee benefits lawyers Justin Coddington and Jack Amaro; executive compensation lawyers Stephen Jacobson, Jabir Yusoff and Kristen Tyler; technology & IP transactions lawyers Derek Ventling and Matt Darch; transactional liability lawyers Anna Geml, Jessica Sicsu and Hayley Hollender; litigation lawyer Nick Niles; and real estate lawyers John Goldman, Gina Garcia and Natalia Ortiz.

Jan 21

1 min

Kirkland & Ellis counseled King Street Capital Management, L.P., a leading global investment firm, on acquiring a majority ownership stake in Colovore, a Silicon Valley-based data center operator that specializes in liquid-cooled, high-density colocation for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. The transaction will leverage King Street’s deep real estate platform to support Colovore’s continued growth to meet increased demand for liquid-cooled data center solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read King Street’s press release The Kirkland team was led by corporate partners Jhett Nelson, Shubi Arora and KJ Pedersen and associates Brittany Scheier, William Kelly, Selin Ozaltun and Tristan Prentice; real estate partners Andrew Small and Roberto Miceli and associate TJ Kuban; tax partners Bruce Gelman and Mike Greenberg and associate Rachelle Stapley; technology & IP transactions partners Matthew Lovell and Shellie Freedman and associate Daniel Shin; investment funds partner Ben Briggs and associates Joshua Morgan, Ariela Rivkin and Justin Frumm; and executive compensation partners Stephen Jacobson and Jabir Yusoff and associates Monica Merino and Lanie Halpern.

May 20

1 min