Ana Sanchez

Ana Sanchez is Counsel in the Firm’s Houston office, focusing her practice on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions across the energy and infrastructure sectors. She represents a broad range of investors and companies in upstream and midstream oil and gas, fiber, telecommunications and digital infrastructure, transportation, renewable and conventional power and energy storage.

Ana’s recent representations include advising:

• KKR in its agreement with Telefónica Hispanoamérica and Entel Perú to acquire a majority interest in PangeaCo and the existing fiber optic networks of Telefónica del Perú and Entel Perú to build Perú’s first nationwide open access wholesale fiber optics company
• GI Partners in the announced acquisition of DQE Communications LLC from its parent company, Duquesne Light Holdings, Inc.
• Transaction Data Systems, Inc. in its merger with the Outcomes™ business of Cardinal Health
• KKR in its acquisition of a majority stake in Telefónica Chile’s existing fiber optic network to establish Chile’s first open access wholesale fiber optics company
• KKR in its acquisition of Boasso Global, the premier provider of depot, maintenance, cleaning and transportation services for ISO tank containers in North America, and in Boasso Global’s subsequent merger with Q Super Holdings, Inc.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its $3 billion recapitalization of Cologix, Inc. 
• CIM Group, L.L.C., as co-lead investor alongside Aravaipa Ventures, in funding for Bolder Industries, Inc.
• Digital Colony in its acquisition of Landmark Dividend LLC
• Riverstone Credit Partners, in its investment in Imperium3 New York, Inc. to fund the development and construction of a lithium-ion battery Gigafactory
• KKR in its acquisition of a majority stake in a joint venture with Telefónica Colombia to establish Colombia’s first independent nationwide open access wholesale digital infrastructure company
• A special committee of the board of directors of Keane Group, Inc. in Keane’s definitive agreement with C&J Energy Services, to combine in an all-stock merger of equals
• Global Infrastructure Partners in its $1.375 billion acquisition of NRG Energy’s renewable energy business
• BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Fund in its acquisition of Glass Mountain Pipeline
• Navigator Energy Services, LLC in its sale to NuStar Energy L.P. 
• KKR in its $1 billion capital commitment acquisition of commercial aircraft in partnership with Altavair AirFinance, as well as in KKR’s related acquisition of a 50% interest in Altavair

Ana received her J.D., cum laude, from the Baylor University School of Law where she was a member of the Baylor Law Review, and her B.B.A., cum laude, from Texas A&M University. She is admitted to practice in Texas.