Kirkland & Ellis advised Maverick Natural Resources on the issuance of $640 million of notes in an asset-backed securitization formation secured by Maverick's Western Anadarko Basin producing wells. The notes were issued in three tranches, as part of a master trust, in a private offering to accredited investors under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933. Read Maverick’s press release The Kirkland team was led by real assets partner Chad Smith and associates Isaac Bate and Rizwan Popatia; asset finance & securitization partners Jeffrey O’Connor and Rudgee Charles and associates Casper Howells and David Kobray; debt finance partner Mary Kogut and associates Brittany Taylor, Tommy Kagerer and Thomas Coverdale; capital markets partners Michael Rigdon and Noah Allen and associate Nick Wetzeler; tax partners David Wheat, Thomas Evans and Joe Tobias and associate David Gilbert; and derivatives partners Scott Gordon and Brett Ackerman; with support from corporate partners Sean Wheeler and Zahra Usmani; real asset partner Chris Heasley; and investment funds partners Joseph Lifsics and Christine Matott.