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Austin Paalz is an associate in the Corporate, Finance and Investments Practice Group of King & Spalding’s Houston office. Austin counsels clients on a variety of topics, including mergers, acquisitions, project development, joint ventures, commercial transactions and corporate governance. Austin has extensive experience representing clients on acquisitions and sales of private companies and representing energy companies on acquisitions, development and divestments of energy infrastructure projects.

Before joining King & Spalding, Austin graduated with High Honors from Emory University School of Law in 2020 and was invited to join the Order of the Coif. While in law school, he was an Executive Managing Editor on the Emory Law Journal. Austin also had his work, Patent Wars: The Attack of Blockchain, published in the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal in 2020.

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J.D., Emory University School of Law, with high honors, Order of the Coif

B.A. Political Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Business Law Certificate, with Honors

Texas

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Represented CENTAURI Technologies, LP, a technology-driven manufacturer of specialty materials and chemical formulations, in its sale to Aurorium (formerly Vertellus), a portfolio company of Pritzker Private Capital.

Represented a US development company on the sale of various battery energy storage projects totaling approximately 2.65 gigawatts of anticipated operational capacity.

Represented The Carlyle Group and its portfolio company, Cogentrix Energy Power Management, LLC, on the sale of a 600 MW portfolio of six operating wind projects in New York.

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Represented CENTAURI Technologies, LP, a technology-driven manufacturer of specialty materials and chemical formulations, in its sale to Aurorium (formerly Vertellus), a portfolio company of Pritzker Private Capital.

Represented a US development company on the sale of various battery energy storage projects totaling approximately 2.65 gigawatts of anticipated operational capacity.

Represented The Carlyle Group and its portfolio company, Cogentrix Energy Power Management, LLC, on the sale of a 600 MW portfolio of six operating wind projects in New York.

Represented ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC in connection with the acquisition of a natural gas gathering system in the Haynesville basin of Louisiana and Texas.

Represented Kraton Corporation in its $2.5 billion sale to DL Chemical Co.

Represented Sunny Sky Products, LLC, a portfolio company of Seidler Equity Partners, on its sale to a subsidiary of The Jordan Company.

Represented a Houston based producer and midstream services company on its sale and related joint venture arrangement with a major Mexican private investment company.

Represented a Houston-based investment firm and its portfolio company in a merger with and into a technology-based provider of security and automation services.

Represented Shell New Energies US LLC, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, on the purchase of Inspire Energy Capital LLC, a renewable energy residential retailer serving approximately 235,000 residential customers across the U.S.

Represented Amarillo Midstream, LLC & Rattler Ajax Processing LLC on the divestment of the Amarillo Rattler, LLC joint venture to EnLink Midstream Operating, LP.

Represented Kinder Morgan, Inc. on its acquisition of Indianapolis-based Kinetrex Energy, a rapidly growing renewable natural gas player, from an affiliate of Parallel49 Equity.

Matters

Represented CENTAURI Technologies, LP, a technology-driven manufacturer of specialty materials and chemical formulations, in its sale to Aurorium (formerly Vertellus), a portfolio company of Pritzker Private Capital.

Represented a US development company on the sale of various battery energy storage projects totaling approximately 2.65 gigawatts of anticipated operational capacity.

Represented The Carlyle Group and its portfolio company, Cogentrix Energy Power Management, LLC, on the sale of a 600 MW portfolio of six operating wind projects in New York.

See more

Close

Matters

Represented CENTAURI Technologies, LP, a technology-driven manufacturer of specialty materials and chemical formulations, in its sale to Aurorium (formerly Vertellus), a portfolio company of Pritzker Private Capital.

Represented a US development company on the sale of various battery energy storage projects totaling approximately 2.65 gigawatts of anticipated operational capacity.

Represented The Carlyle Group and its portfolio company, Cogentrix Energy Power Management, LLC, on the sale of a 600 MW portfolio of six operating wind projects in New York.

Represented ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC in connection with the acquisition of a natural gas gathering system in the Haynesville basin of Louisiana and Texas.

Represented Kraton Corporation in its $2.5 billion sale to DL Chemical Co.

Represented Sunny Sky Products, LLC, a portfolio company of Seidler Equity Partners, on its sale to a subsidiary of The Jordan Company.

Represented a Houston based producer and midstream services company on its sale and related joint venture arrangement with a major Mexican private investment company.

Represented a Houston-based investment firm and its portfolio company in a merger with and into a technology-based provider of security and automation services.

Represented Shell New Energies US LLC, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, on the purchase of Inspire Energy Capital LLC, a renewable energy residential retailer serving approximately 235,000 residential customers across the U.S.

Represented Amarillo Midstream, LLC & Rattler Ajax Processing LLC on the divestment of the Amarillo Rattler, LLC joint venture to EnLink Midstream Operating, LP.

Represented Kinder Morgan, Inc. on its acquisition of Indianapolis-based Kinetrex Energy, a rapidly growing renewable natural gas player, from an affiliate of Parallel49 Equity.

Credentials

J.D., Emory University School of Law, with high honors, Order of the Coif

B.A. Political Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Business Law Certificate, with Honors

Texas