Oil & Gas

The Oil & Gas Group provides a broad array of investment banking services to clients involved in every aspect of the oil and gas business. The clients include upstream companies involved in exploration, production and oil field services, midstream companies involved in transportation and processing, and downstream clients involved in refining and marketing.

The Oil & Gas Group is organized to take advantage of decades of investment banking experience, ensuring that all clients benefit from the group's in-depth industry and capital markets knowledge.

The Oil & Gas Group strives to provide its clients with the highest quality of financial advice possible, including helping clients with investment-grade and high-yield debt offerings, M&A and strategic advisory work, and equity issuances, including IPO's and secondary offerings.

Credit Suisse is ranked #1 in North American Oil & Gas M&A and leveraged finance in 2006.

Recent notable transactions include:

  • Advisor to Anadarko Petroleum on its simultaneous $17.8 billion acquisition of Kerr-McGee and $5.2 billion acquisition of Western Gas Resources, and bookrunner on its $5.5 billion senior notes offering
  • Advisor to Hanover Compressor Company on it $3.5 billion merger of equals with Universal Compression Holdings
  • Advisor to leading French oil service company, CGG on its $3 billion acquisition of Veritas DGC and bookrunner on CGG Veritas' $600 million senior notes offering and $1 billion term loan
  • Advisor to EnCana on it multibillion oil sands/refining JV with ConocoPhillips, creating the first large integrated oil sands company
  • Bookrunner Chesapeake Energy's €600 million European senior notes offering
  • Bookrunner on Complete Production Services' $718 million IPO and $650 million senior notes offering, both the largest ever IPO and high yield offering for an oil service company
  • Advisor to Woodside Petroleum on hostile bide for Energy Partners, Ltd.
  • Advisor to Energy Transfer Partners on its $1.5 billion acquisition of Transwestern Pipeline from GE Financial and Southern Union Company
  • Advisor to ConocoPhillips on $2.4 billion strategic alliance with Lukoil, including participation in Russian privatization auction and the formation of two joint ventures.