Nicholas (Nick) Peters focuses his practice on equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture agreements, and other complex business transactions. His clients include private equity sponsors, investment funds, energy transition investors, operating companies, startup ventures, executives, investors, and upstream and midstream oil and gas companies. Nick is based in the firm’s Dallas office where he is a partner in the firm’s Transactions Practice and Energy Sector and is leading the Firm’s hydrogen practice team.

While Nick is a generalist who prides himself on serving his clients as “outside general counsel,” he focuses his efforts on energy-related matters, including upstream and midstream oil and gas, acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, and operating contracts. Nick also works on a number of energy transition matters, with experience in renewable natural gas and hydrogen projects.

Prior to Foley, Nick served as in house counsel for two upstream oil and gas companies. Most recently, Nick was general counsel and director of land and business development functions for a private equity-backed upstream oil and gas company managing over US $500 million of equity capital deployed. He also managed the company’s acquisition and divestiture activities spanning over 30,000 acres located in multiple counties in the states of New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas and was responsible for managing land and business development teams in all matters associated with the acquisition, management, and disposition of company assets.

Prior to his private equity experience, Nick served as in house counsel and land manager for a large, Dallas-based upstream oil and gas company focusing on acquiring, operating, and divesting conventional oil and gas properties throughout numerous states in the continental United States.