Julia Pashin is a senior associate in the Tax practice.

She provides tax advice to clients on a broad range of M&A and private equity transactional matters with a particular focus on energy transactions. Julia has advised on various structuring aspects of upstream oil and gas asset acquisitions and divestitures, drilling joint venture transactions, midstream joint ventures and like-kind exchanges.

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Devon Energy in the $2 billion sale of certain non-core upstream assets to multiple buyers in east Texas, the Anadarko Basin, the northern and central Midland Basin, and northern Oklahoma
• Flywheel Energy Operating, a portfolio company of funds managed by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, in its $1.86 billion acquisition of all Fayetteville Shale and ARKOMA upstream and midstream assets of Southwestern Energy Company via the acquisition of 100% of the issued and outstanding securities in SWN Production (Arkansas), LLC and DeSoto Gathering Company, LLC
• Osaka Gas USA Co. in the acquisition from, and joint venture with, Sabine Oil & Gas relating to oil and gas properties located in Harrison and Panola Counties, TX
• SandRidge Energy in $1.12 billion sale of its Gulf of Mexico offshore and Gulf Coast assets to Fieldwood Energy, LLC
• Ascentium Capital in the sale of the company, the third largest private-independent equipment finance company in the U.S. by volume, to Warburg Pincus
• Fiesta Mart in the sale of the company, one of largest international and Hispanic grocery chains in the United States, to ACON Investments
• The Grocers Supply Company in the sale of the company’s wholesale grocery business to C&S Wholesale Grocers
• Mitsui & Co., Ltd. in its agreement with DuPont to purchase DuPont’s global Kocide and ManKocide copper fungicide assets
• Trafigura AG in the sale of a majority stake in its Corpus Christi Terminal and associated Eagle Ford assets in South Texas, and related joint ownership arrangements

Joint Ventures

• The Carlyle Group in the $300 million definitive drilling agreement to fund the development of Diamondback Energy's oil and gas assets in Pecos County, Texas
• Continental Resources in its $220 million sale of mineral rights in the SCOOP and STACK oil and gas plays and formation of a joint venture with Franco-Nevada Corporation
• Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. in the 50/50 joint venture with Noble Midstream Partners LP to acquire Advantage Pipeline, L.L.C. for $133 million
• The Carlyle Group in the $400 million definitive drilling agreement to fund the development of EOG's oil and gas assets in Ellis County, Oklahoma
• OCI N.V. in a joint venture with Dakota Gasification Company to form N-7 LLC, a jointly owned company that will market, distribute and sell nitrogen fertilizers, industrial ammonia and diesel exhaust fluid in North America
• A drilling joint venture between a subsidiary of EP Energy Corporation and an affiliate of Apollo to fund the drilling of up to 150 wells
• TPG Special Situations Partners (TSSP) in its agreement between the operating subsidiary of Legacy Reserves LP and funds managed by TSSP to jointly fund horizontal development of certain of Legacy's Spraberry, Wolfcamp and Bone Spring rights in the Permian Basin

Private Equity

• Stellus Capital Management in the $30 million investment, and commitment to fund up to an additional $45 million, in Matrix Revolution
• Austin Ventures in its acquisition of SAM, Inc., a surveying, mapping and engineering company
• Lime Rock partners in the $35 million acquisition of a 60% equity interest in KSW Environmental, provider of crystalline silica dust control solutions to the hydraulic fracturing sector of the oil and natural gas industry

Speaking Engagements

• Independent Petroleum Association of America – Oil & Gas Investment Symposium Panelist – 2019
• North American Petroleum Accounting Conference – Structuring Oil & Gas JV Arrangements – 2018
• Tax Executives Institute – Houston Chapter Tax School – Upstream Oil and Gas Like-Kind Exchange Transactions after Tax Reform - 2018

Other

• Member, Attorneys Serving the Community
• Member, Women’s Energy Network – North Texas Chapter
• Volunteer, Big Brothers Big Sisters