Trent Bridges is a partner in the Paul, Weiss Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Bridges’s practice includes a wide range of energy-related transactions, infrastructure development projects and investments. He has significant experience advising on acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, greenfield projects and commercial agreements across the oil & gas value chain, notably within the midstream space. He also advises clients on energy transition and data center-related projects, including renewable fuels matters and the development of natural gas pipelines and power facilities to support data center operations.
Prior to joining Paul, Weiss, Bridges served as an officer and in managing legal roles for Magellan Midstream Partners, where he worked directly with its board of directors and executive management team on numerous material midstream M&A transactions, joint ventures and projects.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2027 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers | 2027 | M&A, Energy |
Bridges’s representations have included:
MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS AND DIVESTITURES
- Magellan Midstream Partners in its:
- $435 million sale of 26 refined products inland terminals located primarily in the Southeastern United States to Buckeye Partners
- acquisition of the West Columbia crude oil pipeline system in the Houston, TX Gulf Coast area from Shell Midstream
- The Oklahoma Publishing Company in its acquisition of a controlling equity interest in Pavestone Company
- A food industry company in the acquisition of all assets associated with two large food processing plants
JOINT VENTURES AND UNDIVIDED JOINT INTEREST TRANSACTIONS
- Magellan Midstream Partners in:
- its BridgeTex Pipeline joint venture with Occidental Petroleum to construct, own and operate a 440-mile crude oil pipeline from the Permian Basin in Texas to the Houston, TX Gulf Coast area
- its HoustonLink Pipeline joint venture with TransCanada to construct, own and operate an approximately $50 million crude oil pipeline in Houston, TX Gulf Coast area
- A public university in a public-private partnership (PPP) to implement a long-term operations and management arrangement for its utilities assets
MIDSTREAM COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS
- Buckeye Partners in the commercial contracting of U.S. Gulf Coast crude oil and condensate storage and processing assets with a global commodity trading and logistics firm
- Magellan Midstream Partners in:
- its construction of an approximately $300 million condensate splitter and related terminal assets in Corpus Christi, TX, supported by a long-term Tolling Agreement with Trafigura AG as sole off-take counterparty
- its agreement with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to establish a crude oil storage futures program and a crude oil physical futures contract (HOU) deliverable at Magellan’s East Houston (MEH) terminal
ENERGY TRANSITION PROJECTS AND JOINT VENTURES
- Enbridge in:
- an infrastructure development agreement with Divert to develop wasted-food-to-renewable natural gas (RNG) projects across the U.S. for up to more than $1 billion of capital investments underpinned by long-term, take-or-pay contracts
- an approximately $100 million project with Divert to build a wasted-food-to-RNG facility in Longview, Washington, which is the first project between the parties under their $1 billion infrastructure development agreement
- United Airlines Ventures in its joint venture with Tallgrass Energy and Green Plains to develop and commercialize a novel sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology that uses ethanol as feedstock
CAPITAL MARKETS TRANSACTIONS
- An Oklahoma-based oil and gas production and exploitation company in over $2 billion of public debt offerings and related exchange offers, tender offers and redemptions
- An Oklahoma-based publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company in debt and equity financing matters