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xperience across the asset life cycle combined with a differentiated approach gives Kayne a competitive advantage in investing in the complex and cyclical upstream oil and gas industry.

Providing capital to fund the acquisition and development of producing oil and gas properties across North America.

Investing with Kayne

Focusing on growth-oriented, middle-market assets allows our portfolio companies to source under-exploited niche opportunities overlooked by larger players, often negotiated off-market.

Kayne’s ability to quickly and effectively apply new technology and identify upside potential across basins creates a larger basket of high-quality resources with the potential to yield highly economic drilling opportunities.

Appropriately Value

Ability to understand asymmetric risk/return profile and appropriately value acquisition opportunities.

Substantial Capital

Opportunity to deploy substantial capital through a series of middle-market acquisitions and subsequent development.

Active Role

Investment size of $50 to $200 million with an active, often majority controlling role and a typical holding period of 3 to 5 years.

Since 1992

Engaged in private energy investing since 1992.

Knowledge Transfer

Our highly experienced in-house technical team and reservoir engineers transfer knowledge and technology across the portfolio to identify opportunities.

Value Creation

Engineering-centric approach to capital allocation and value creation.

Successful Teams

High concentration of successful repeat management teams.

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Responsibility

As responsible stewards of capital, Kayne believes that the integration of material ESG risks and opportunities is an important consideration in the selection of both public and private market investment opportunities. ESG integration goes hand in hand with good business, will help generate a­ttractive risk-adjusted returns for our clients and contribute to sustainable development globally. Accordingly, it is our fiduciary duty to incorporate these factors into our investment and decision-making processes.

Investing with Kayne

Targeting opportunistic acquisitions of mature, longer-life, low-risk onshore E&P assets

Focused on backing management teams to acquire and develop large, legacy, producing assets with shallow decline rates and a significant number of low-risk, development upside opportunities.

Strategy Highlights

  • Partnering with high-caliber management teams to build large, scalable E&P companies across North America through sizable acquisitions.
  • Targeting large, long-life assets with a significant portion of value attributable to proven, developed producing reserves combined with lower-risk development drilling upside.
  • Assets are cash-flow positive, providing for regular distributions to equity investors during expected hold periods of 6 to 8 years.
  • Investments generate attractive risk-adjusted returns through a combination of current income and long-term capital appreciation.
  • Conservative focus on risk management and capital preservation; commodity hedging is core to the investment strategy.
  • Our team is well-versed in the market for PDP-weighted assets, having transacted on more than $5 billion worth of acquisitions since 2016.
Investing with Kayne

Responsibility

Public infrastructure companies own long-term, durable assets that underpin global economic growth and are central to meeting the world’s energy needs. Infrastructure investing, by its nature, is compatible with environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and has long been a focus of managers as they make investment decisions regarding return on investment. ESG risks are also increasingly becoming a more important consideration for investors and infrastructure companies have responded through enhanced ESG disclosure.

Our People

Energy-focused investment team with expertise in both finance and engineering allows for hands-on involvement with management teams. Then the current investments module.