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Efren Lemus

Associate

Efren Lemus is an associate in the Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions practices. 

His practice focuses on complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures, commercial arrangements and related general corporate counseling.

Experience

Representative matters

SAP in the $12.5 billion sale of Qualtrics International, Inc. to Silver Lake.

Anglo American plc in connection with its business combination between its nuGenTM Zero Emissions Haulage Solution and First Mode Holdings, Inc.

Aegion Corporation, a portfolio company of New Mountain Capital, in its sale of Aegion Energy Services, LLC to Brock Holdings III, LLC, a portfolio company of American Industrial Partners.

J.F. Lehman & Company in connection with:

the sale of Lone Star Disposal to Waste Connections US Holdings Inc.

its proposed acquisition of Heritage-Crystal Clean Inc. in an all-cash transaction for US$45.50 per share that values the company at approximately US$1.2 billion, including net debt.

Community Counseling Service Co. (CCS Fundraising), the world's leading fundraising consulting firm for non-profits, with respect to a strategic investment by ABRY Partners.

Kestra Financial, the parent company of Bluespring Wealth Partners, in several acquisitions by Bluespring of wealth management firms.

Tire Rack in its sale to Discount Tire.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency in its sale to Parthenon Capital Partners.

I-Bankers in connection with several SPAC IPOs.

A New York-based global asset management firm in its acquisition of a healthcare technology company.

J.F. Lehman & Company acquisition of the assets of the Narda-MITEQ division and the stock of Narda Safety Test Solutions, GmbH (Narda-MITEQ) from L3Harris Technologies, Inc.

Hitachi, Ltd. in its acquisition of GlobalLogic Inc. for an enterprise value of $9.5 billion.

Pike Corporation, one of the largest providers of infrastructure solutions to utilities in the United States, in connection with a majority investment by Lindsay Goldberg.*

Salt Creek Midstream in a comprehensive recapitalization, which included additional investments from its existing lender groups and funds managed by Ares Management.*

Affiliates of Magnetar Capital and GSO Capital Partners as lead investors in the simplification merger of EQM Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: EQM) and Equitrans Midstream Corporation (NYSE: ETRN) and the associated redemption and rollover into preferred equity at ETRN of $1.2 billion of the investors' Series A Convertible Preferred Units of EQM.*

KKR, in partnership with XPV Water Partners, in the formation of a wastewater treatment platform that provides end-to-end nutrient management solutions for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities.*

Golden Gate Capital and Hillstone Environmental Partners, LLC in the $600 million sale of Hillstone to NGL Energy Partners LP Kodiak Gas Services, a portfolio company of EQT Infrastructure, in its acquisition of Pegasus Optimization Managers from affiliates of Apollo Natural Resource Partners.*

Hilcorp Alaska in its $5.6 billion acquisition of BP's upstream and midstream business in Alaska BlackRock, GSO Capital Partners and Magnetar Capital as lead purchasers in the $1.2 billion convertible preferred equity investment in EQM Midstream Partners, LP, a growth-oriented master limited partnership operating in the Appalachian Basin.*

Kodiak Gas Services, LLC and The Stephens Group, LLC in the sale of Kodiak to EQT Infrastructure.*

Salt Creek Midstream, LLC in its 50/50 joint venture with Noble Midstream Partners LP to provide crude oil gathering and transportation services in the Delaware Basin.*

*Denotes prior firm experience.

Published Work

  • Efren Lemus, Comment, When Fingerprints Are Key: Reinstating Privacy to the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination in Light of Fingerprint Encryption in Smartphones, 70 SMU L. Rev. 533 (2017)

Qualifications

Admissions

Attorney-at-Law, Texas

Academic

Georgetown University B.A., magna cum laude

Gates Millennium Scholar

SMU Dedman School of Law J.D., magna cum laude

Articles Editor, SMU Law Review

Languages

Spanish, Portuguese

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.