Nate Bascom

Relevant experience includes:

• USA Rare Earth, LLC in creating a vertically integrated supply chain for rare earth magnets in the United States, in its $870 million business combination with Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. II that resulted in USARE being listed on Nasdaq.
• Gunvor Group Ltd, one of the world’s largest commodities trading houses, in multiple significant minority investments in the acquisition of oil and gas exploration companies.
• EnergySource Minerals LLC: in its development of a lithium processing plant.
• HOBO Renewable Diesel LLC: in its development of a renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel production facility.
• Homer City Redevelopment in its development of a 4.4GW natural gas power plant and 3200-acre data center campus.
• A leading midstream energy company in its development of multiple co-located power plant and data centers in coordination with a large hyperscaler.
• Numerous independent power producers and sponsors in the sale and acquisition of and investment in various energy assets, including power plants.
• Multiple project developers and sponsors with the development of power generation facilities and other energy projects.
• Sixth Street Partners, LLC in its acquisition of oil and gas assets from Laredo Petroleum Inc., for a total consideration of $715 million.
• Sempra Energy on its sale of a 20% equity interest in Sempra Infrastructure Partners, an energy infrastructure company, to KKR for $3.37 billion.
• BlackRock, Inc. in the divestiture by its infrastructure fund of its equity interests in certain natural gas pipelines in Mexico.
• Sibanye Gold Limited, South Africa’s largest individual gold producer, in its $2.2 billion all-cash acquisition of Stillwater Mining Company, including related equity financing.
• Waste Management, Inc. in its acquisition via merger of Advanced Disposal Inc., representing a $4.6 billion total enterprise value. Representation also included divestiture of more than $800 million in assets of Waste Management and Advanced Disposal, as required by the Department of Justice
• Elevance Health, Inc. in its acquisition of BioPlus, a specialty pharmacy company, from Carepath Rx, a portfolio company of Nautic Partners.

Nate Bascom advises clients on a variety of corporate and commercial matters, including mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, project development, financing matters and commercial transactions. Nate particularly focuses on advising clients in the energy and infrastructure sectors, particularly power and renewable energy but also including oil & gas, critical minerals and various infrastructure projects. Nate has represented project developers, private equity funds, private investors, investment banks, commercial banks as well as public and private strategic firms, giving him valuable perspective across a wide variety of market participants and types of transactions. 

Before joining King & Spalding, Nate graduated cum laude from the Duke University School of Law and worked at other distinguished international corporate law firms.