Davis Polk advised the joint book-running managers in connection with an SEC-registered common stock offering of 45,000,000 shares of common stock of Synergy Resources Corporation. The net proceeds from the offering were approximately $251.8 million, which Synergy Resources Corporation intends to use to finance a portion of its contemplated acquisition of additional assets in the Wattenberg Field in Colorado.

Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Synergy Resources Corporation is a domestic oil and natural gas exploration and production company. Its core area of operations is in the Denver-Julesburg Basin, which encompasses Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska.

The Davis Polk capital markets team included partner Richard D. Truesdell Jr., counsel Derek Dostal and associates John H. Runne and Brian Fox. Partner David H. Schnabel and associate Anne L. Doherty provided tax advice. Counsel David A. Zilberberg and associate Michael Comstock provided environmental advice. All members of the Davis Polk team are based in the New York office.