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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. Clients include integrated oil companies, upstream exploration & production and oil field service companies, midstream companies involved in transportation and processing, and downstream clients involved in refining and marketing.
The Oil & Gas Group leverages its in-depth industry and capital markets knowledge to provide clients with the highest quality strategic and financial advisory services across the breadth of banking products, including investment-grade and high-yield debt offerings, IPO and equity follow-on offerings, structured products (including forex, interest rate products, commodity hedging), and M&A / strategic advisory work.
Credit Suisse has consistently ranked as one of the top investment banks in the oil and gas sector. Recent notable transactions include:
- Lead left bookrunner on the $1 billion IPO for Cobalt International Energy, the largest E&P IPO in U.S. history (2009)
- Financial Advisor on $600 million financing for Kosmos Energy (2009, Euromoney and PFI African Oil & Gas Project Finance Deal of the Year awards)
- Advisor to Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation on its $9.0 billion acquisition of all outstanding shares of Addax Petroleum Corporation (2009)
- Advisor to TEPPCO special committee on its $6.0 billion merger with Enterprise Products Partners (2009)
- Advisor to Global Infrastructure Partners on its $588 million joint venture on a portion of Chesapeake Energy’s midstream assets (2009)
- Active bookrunner on $6.0 billion senior notes offering for ConocoPhillips (2009)
- Financial advisor to ConocoPhillips on $8.0 billion investment in its Australasian natural gas JV with Origin Energy (2008)
- Advisor to Grant Prideco on its $7.6 billion sale to National Oilwell Varco (2008)
- Lead left bookrunner on $4.1 billion initial public offering for OGX, an independent pure-play Brazilian E&P company (2008)