Nate Christensen
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Related services and key industries
Biography
Nate Christensen has a broad corporate practice that leverages his experience both as lead outside counsel and as former general counsel of Hunt Consolidated, Inc., one of the largest private international energy, infrastructure, real estate and alternative investment firms, where he led sophisticated transactions involving some of the world’s foremost investors and capital providers. He has over 20 years of experience advising clients across a broad spectrum of complex transactions and capital structures in numerous industries, including energy (conventional, renewables, power infrastructure and energy transition), real estate, professional sports, financial services, professional services and consumer goods.
Nate represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, family offices and other alternative asset managers, public and private companies, project developers and entrepreneurs in a broad range of strategic, transactional and operational matters. He has extensive experience across business lifecycles and sophisticated transactions, including partnerships and joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, private placements and other equity and debt financings, fund formation, direct investing, project development and commercial transactions.
Professional experience
Collapse allJD, cum laude, Duke University School of Law, 2002
BA, cum laude, University of Washington, 1999
- Colorado State Bar
- Texas State Bar
Energy
- Represented a private energy company in its acquisition of an independent oil and gas exploration and development company.
- Represented the management team of a private equity portfolio company in connection with a restructuring.
- Represented a family office in its formation of an energy-focused investment platform.
- Represented a family office in its acquisition of an oilfield services company.
- Represented a private equity firm in its sale of royalty and mineral interests to a Nasdaq-listed master limited partnership.
- Represented a private hydrogen developer in its restructuring and growth equity financing.
- Represented a private electric transmission company in its public-private partnership with the US Department of Energy.
- Represented a private energy company in a strategic investment in a global energy fund.
- Represented a private regulated utility in its joint venture with a NYSE-listed energy company.
- Represented a private energy company in multiple joint ventures with strategic partners in Latin America and the development of renewable energy projects.
- Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition of assets in Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings.
- Represented a private equity firm in its investment in a midstream natural gas services provider.
Real estate
- Represented a family office in the acquisition of a real estate development in Frisco, Texas.
- Represented a real estate fund manager in its sale of a multi-strategy real estate fund.
- Represented a real estate developer in its strategic partnership with a commercial real estate firm.
- Represented a private equity firm in its joint venture with a real estate development company to restore a historic hotel in Hudson, New York.
- Represented a private equity firm in its recapitalization of a luxury boutique hotel in Dallas, Texas.
- Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition and refinancing of a luxury boutique hotel in Dallas, Texas.
- Represented a private equity firm in its joint venture with a family office to acquire and develop commercial real estate in Dallas, Texas.
- Represented a private equity firm in its investment in a luxury boutique hotel in Los Angeles, California.
Financial services
- Represented a Nasdaq-listed insurance company in its acquisition of an insurance book.
- Represented a global financial services company in its acquisition and disposition of private-label credit card portfolios.
- Represented a global financial services company in its acquisition of a lending and leasing business.
- Represented a NYSE-listed financial services company in its sale of venture capital funds.
Other sectors
- Represented a family office in its acquisition of an executive search firm.
- Represented a family office in its growth equity investment in a spirits distributor.
- Represented a family office in connection with investments in hedge funds, private equity funds and early-stage companies.
- Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition of a platform company and subsequent add-on transactions.
- Represented the television network division of a NYSE-listed global company in connection with multiple joint ventures.
- Represented a private equity group in its sale of a professional baseball franchise.
- The Best Lawyers in Dallas, Corporate Law: Private Equity, D Magazine, 2024
- Speaker, "Generational Entrepreneurship," Family Business Legacy conference, Dallas, September 2023
- Speaker, "Encouraging Generational Entrepreneurship," Family Business Magazine webinar, May 2023
- Panelist, "Dallas Dealmakers," Association for Corporate Growth, November 2022
- Family Office Committee, DFW ACG (Association for Corporate Growth)
- President, Genesis HeROs (Men’s Auxiliary of Genesis Women’s Shelter)
- Board of Directors, Community Partners of Dallas
- Board of Sponsors, Lumin Education
- Education and Workforce Council, Dallas Regional Chamber, 2018-2020
- Leadership Dallas, Dallas Regional Chamber, 2017; Class Advisor, 2018
- Adjunct Professor, Daniels College of Business at University of Denver, 2005-2007
- Member, State Bar of Texas
- Member, Dallas Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association