Winthrop & Weinstine offers a comprehensive suite of legal services to owners, distributors, and others in the downstream energy industry. Our extensive industry knowledge and depth of experience in the multi-unit retail and fuel distribution spaces gives us a full appreciation of the issues facing your business and the insight to resolve them quickly.
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Winthrop’s Downstream Energy Legal Team represents gas and convenience store owners and fuel distributors in significant and complex business transactions throughout the United States. Our attorneys understand the pressures that our clients face in building their businesses, financing their operations, navigating commercial disputes, and succeeding in an ever-evolving energy landscape. We have decades of experience representing buyers and sellers in M&A transactions involving the purchase and sale of petroleum, propane and heating oil distribution businesses, and multi-unit retail operations, including convenience stores and quick-service restaurants; counseling clients in the energy and utilities industries on complex recapitalization, restructuring and financing transactions, including senior secured debt facilities, acquisition, construction and development facilities, equipment leasing, subordinated debt and mezzanine capital, and sale/leasebacks; drafting and negotiating fuel supply agreements; and advising owners in ownership, contract and other business disputes, including mediation and litigation.
We add value for our clients by quickly focusing on the meaningful issues in a transaction or dispute and efficiently guiding the process to a successful conclusion.
