Pete Bowden

Peter Bowden is a Managing Director and Global Head of Industrial, Energy & Infrastructure Investment Banking at Jefferies. Mr. Bowden has acted as lead advisor on over $257Bn of energy M&A over the course of his 27-year career, including several of the highest profile transactions in the industry. Transactional highlights include advising Kinder Morgan Energy Partners and Kinder Morgan Management in the $140Bn amalgamation of the various Kinder Morgan entitles, MarkWest in its $20Bn merger with MPLX (Marathon Petroleum’s captive MLP), Plains GP Holdings in its $7.2Bn simplification transaction with Plains All American Pipeline, Chesapeake Energy in its $5Bn exit from midstream, Copano Energy in its $5Bn sale to Kinder Morgan, Inergy in is $7.3Bn merger with Crestwood, SemGroup in its $5.1Bn sale to Energy Transfer, Blackstone in the $7Bn sale of its interests in Cheniere to Brookfield and Chevron in its divestiture of ten midstream asset packages for total consideration of over $3Bn. Mr. Bowden has also advised private equity clients on the sale of over $18Bn of operated businesses in the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeast New Mexico. Mr. Bowden was The Deal magazine’s 2020 Energy & Industrials Dealmaker of the Year and was named Top M&A Investment Banker in the 2022 M&A Atlas Awards. He received an AB, with honors, from Harvard University and a JD from the University of Virginia.

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