Benjamin R. Wills

Significant transactional representations include:

Energy M&A

• Buckeye Partners in its sale of South Texas Gateway Terminal, which is jointly owned with affiliates of Marathon Petroleum and Phillips 66 and is the second largest crude export facility in North America and operates out of a deep-water marine terminal in Ingleside, Texas, to Gibson Energy Inc. for $1.1 billion
• HollyFrontier Corporation in its $1.8 billion acquisition of Sinclair Oil
• Buckeye Partners in the $73.5 million sale of a heating oil terminal located in the Bronx, New York, to affiliates of Hartree Partners
• Buckeye Partners in its acquisition of Magellan’s independent terminals network comprising 26 refined petroleum products terminals with approximately 6 million barrels of storage located primarily in the southeastern United States for $435 million
• Buckeye Partners in its $250 million acquisition of marine terminals in New Haven, Connecticut, Wilmington, Delaware, and Marrero, Louisiana from Magellan Midstream
• HollyFrontier in its $350 million acquisition of the Puget Sound refinery from Shell
• Buckeye Partners in its $1.7 billion acquisition and development of condensate splitters and a high-volume marine crude terminal from Trafigura, including the negotiation of numerous long-term tolling, storage, throughput, and dock services agreements
• Buckeye Partners in the formation of a joint venture with Phillips 66 Partners and Marathon to develop the $300 million deep-water, open access South Texas Gateway marine terminal in Ingleside, Texas
• HollyFrontier in its $1.25 billion IDR elimination transaction with Holly Energy Partners, including the acquisition of common units of Holly Energy Partners
• HollyFrontier in its $845 million acquisition of Suncor Energy's Petro-Canada lubricants business

General M&A

• HF Sinclair Corporation in its $38 million acquisition of Industrial Oils Unlimited, LLC, an industrial lubricants and specialty fluids company 
• Nebius Group N.V. in its acquisition of Tavily, an agentic search provider serving Fortune 500 enterprises and top AI companies
• Fagron in its $34 million acquisition of Letco Medical, a supplier of pharmaceutical raw materials, supplies and equipment for compounding
• Trecora Resources, a provider of specialty hydrocarbons and specialty waxes, in its $247 million sale to an affiliate of Balmoral Funds, LLC
• A subsidiary of KIRKBI A/S in its acquisition of FWD Media, Inc. d/b/a/ BrainPOP, a provider of an online educational platform that can be found in more than two-thirds of US school districts as well as schools internationally
• Tucows in the sale of Ting Mobile to DISH Network Corporation and the entry into complex Mobile Services Enabler Agreements
• Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation in the $240 million sale of its global Extremity Orthopedics business to Smith+Nephew
• Pennsylvania Trust Company in its sale to Fiduciary Trust International, a subsidiary of Franklin Templeton
• HollyFrontier in its $655 million acquisition of Sonneborn, a specialty producer of white oils, petrolatums, and waxes
• Pearson plc in the multibillion-dollar formation of the Penguin Random House joint venture, resulting in the largest English language publisher in the world
• CornellCookson, a manufacturer of custom closure solutions, in its $180 million sale to Clopay Buildings Products, a subsidiary of Griffon Corporation