John Goodgame

Practice Areas

John Goodgame helps clients navigate strategic transactions, primarily in the energy business. He advises public and private companies and private equity funds in initial public offerings (IPOs) and other public and private equity and debt offerings, as well as complex joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, John counsels public companies, their boards of directors and board committees in strategic and governance matters, including mergers, sales of control and conflict situations, as well as Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and compliance.

Recently, among other high-profile transactions, he advised Talos Energy Inc. in its $1.29 billion agreement to acquire QuarterNorth Energy; Viper Energy, Inc. in its $1 billion acquisition of Permian Basin mineral and royalty interests, $264 million secondary common stock offering and $400 million senior notes offering; and Diamondback Energy, Inc. in its joint venture with Five Point Energy to form Deep Blue Midland Basin LLC.

John was the partner in charge of the Houston office and the co-head of Akin’s global corporate practice until 2022.