Mr Charlie Ofner > Akin > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Akin Offices
111 LOUISIANA STREET, 44TH FLOOR
HOUSTON, TX 77002
TEXAS
United States
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Mr Charlie Ofner
Work Department
Partner, Energy & Infrastructure
Position
Charlie Ofner’s practice encompasses a broad range of energy & infrastructure transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, project development and corporate finance matters. He has extensive experience in the negotiation of asset and equity purchase and sale agreements, joint venture and related corporate agreements, joint development agreements, farmout agreements, joint operating agreements, marketing agreements, gathering and transportation agreements, terminal agreements and other energy-related matters.
Charlie regularly advises companies across the energy sector (including majors, independents, private equity (PE) funds and PE-backed portfolio companies in the upstream, midstream, downstream, infrastructure, power and related sectors) in acquisitions and divestitures of assets and equity interests, strategic joint ventures and investments, energy trading transactions, negotiation and implementation of commercial contracts, and corporate governance.
Prior to private practice, Charlie served as senior counsel at Oasis Petroleum Inc., a publicly traded E&P company, where he was integral in the legal functions of multiple company divisions, including operations, land, midstream, marketing, finance and accounting.
To learn more about Charlie, please visit his profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/charlie-ofner.
Education
J.D., University of Texas School of Law, 2007
B.A., Vanderbilt University, cum laude, 2004
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Industry focus > Sport
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)