Alison Chen

About Alison Chen

I advise clients on the federal income tax aspects of business transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other partnership arrangements; recapitalizations; restructuring (in- and out-of-court); and other financing transactions, with a focus primarily in the energy sector.I frequently serve as tax counsel in capital markets transactions, advising public companies (including MLPs) and underwriters in connection with initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-on equity and debt offerings, public mergers, and spin-offs.I am the partner-in-charge for the Houston office. In addition, I am a member of the firm’s partnership admission committee and firmwide diversity & inclusion council, and chair the Houston office women’s professional development initiatives.Recent Representative Experience:Represented the Ad Hoc Group of First Lien Lenders of Foresight Energy LP in the chapter 11 cases of Foresight Energy LP and its affiliated debtors and debtors in possession.Represented Sanchez Energy Corporation, a publicly owned independent exploration and production company, and certain of its direct and indirect subsidiaries in its chapter 11 cases pending before Judge Marvin Isgur the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.Counseled Cimarex Energy Co. on the tax aspects of its $1.6 billion cash and stock acquisition of Resolute Energy Corp.Served as tax counsel to GSO Capital Partners in the formation of, and in its role as a member of, GEP Hayneville LLC, in the $850 million acquisition of its Haynesville Shale assets from Encana Corporation\'s subsidiaries.Provided tax and structuring advice to an ad hoc group of unsecured noteholders of EV Energy Partners, L.P, an independent oil and gas MLP, in its successful financial restructuring and emergence from Chapter 11 as a new corporation under the name Harvest Oil & Gas Corp.Served as tax counsel to Stone Energy Corporation in its all-stock merger with Talos Energy LLC, a transaction that created Talos Energy, Inc.Represented 7-Eleven, Inc, the largest chain in the convenience retailing industry, with regard to the tax aspects of its acquisition of more than 100 gasoline and convenience store locations.Advised an upstream oil and gas MLP of its $915 million merger with an affiliated public corporationan international oil and gas trading and marketing company in connection with the sale of its west Texas assets totaling over $750 million.

Experience

1. Partner, Tax Section of Akin Partner in Charge, Houston Office

   Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

   Apr 2015 — Present · Houston, TX, US

Education

• University of Houston Law Center

  JD, Law

• New York University School of Law

  LLM, Taxation

• The University of Texas at Austin

  BA, Government

Skills

• Mlp
• Taxations
• Executive Compensation Planning
• Federal & State Income Tax Compliance