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Mr Kevin Brophy

Work Department
Energy & Project Finance
Position
Kevin Brophy focuses his practice on energy related matters, including the upstream and midstream sectors. He regularly advises on investments in and financings of energy projects and assets, including, mergers, joint ventures and acquisitions and dispositions of assets and equity of energy companies. He has extensive experience preparing and negotiating purchase and sale agreements (asset and equity), joint venture agreements, joint operating agreements, partnership agreements, limited liability company agreements, employment and consulting agreements, credit and security agreements and other agreements and contracts related to the energy industry.
Prior to joining the Firm, Kevin was general counsel for the Kayne Anderson Energy Funds. In this role, he advised the Funds and their portfolio companies on the structuring of investments, acquisitions and disposition of assets and equity, financing transactions, litigation, employment issues and various other matters. He also advised on the formation, structuring and governance of private equity funds with commitments exceeding $7 billion.
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Lawyer Rankings
United States > Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
McDermott Will & Emery LLP continues to advise major oil and gas clients across the full spectrum of traditional energy transactions, including upstream assets, midstream gas gathering and processing assets, and chemical and fuel storage terminals. The team routinely handles complex M&A between large oil majors, joint venture agreements, service contracts as well as acquisitions and divestitures. From the Houston office, team lead Jack Langlois is regularly sought out by a number of both public and private companies, private equity investors, lenders and national oil companies for his knowledge of energy-related investments and financing, while Kevin Brophy‘s focus is on the upstream and midstream oil and gas industry. Parker Lee departed the firm in March 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Tax > Financial products
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Government > Government contracts
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Fintech