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John Reynolds

Co-founder and Managing Director, Lime Rock Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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Before co-founding Lime Rock Partners in 1998, Reynolds was an oilfield services research analyst at Goldman Sachs. He led Lime Rock's investment in CrownRock, an oil and gas venture that delivered substantial gains upon its sale to Occidental Petroleum in 2024.

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Disclosure
Reynolds: CrownRock used mutual ownership rather than tiered PE waterfalls
“This was not a term sheet that said, hey, under certain circumstances, the management team take is X percent of the profits, and above that level, it's Y percent of the profits. It was a mutual ownership structure from day one, where the management team and th…”
John Reynolds Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 31:21 Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428)
Assertion Partly supported
Reynolds: In May 1997, Santa Fe's $1B IPO overshadowed Amazon's debut
“We had just taken public Santa Fe drilling, which was a billion dollar IPO that Goldman Sachs was the lead manager of. Two weeks prior, Amazon had gone public. No one paid attention to Amazon in May of 97. Everybody paid attention to Santa Fe.”
John Reynolds Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 10:35 Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428)
Insight
Reynolds: Energy volatility demands long-term private capital over quarterly public equity
“There was just far too much cyclical volatility that you needed to invest through cycles with long-term capital. Think long-term, not think about the next quarter.”
John Reynolds Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 11:24 Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428)
Insight
Reynolds: CrownRock's success cannot be replicated across standard energy PE deals
“There are attributes of the people, the Midland Basin, that you just don't replicate. It's a very special case, and there's probably some danger in thinking there's an application in a postmortem for everything we do going forward, because there's certainly no…”
John Reynolds Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 53:48 Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Reynolds: Fled institutional shale capital will not return anytime soon
“That capital's all fled. It just did not perform well in aggregate, and it doesn't look like it's coming back anytime soon.”
John Reynolds Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 1:00:52 Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428)
Assertion Partly supported
Reynolds: Lime Rock exited two early investments that went bankrupt within five years
“We owned an oil sands company in Canada, first deal we did. We owned a shallow water jackup drilling company in the Gulf of Mexico, and our second fund outsized ROIs in both cases. In both cases, within five years of our exit, those companies were bankrupt.”
John Reynolds Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 44:06 Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428)

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Assertion Supported
Sernovitz: Lime Rock founders had zero buy-side experience before managing $10B
“They started the firm when they were 28 and 30. They had never worked in private equity. They never worked on the buy side. So to see how you invent a culture, invent a private equity firm, it's amazing you're allowed to do that in this world, and ten billion …”
Gary Sernovitz Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 48:25 Gary Sernovitz - Inside the CIO Seat (EP.357)

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428) Jan 20, 2025 13m
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