Waveland Oil and Gas Private Placements Loss Recovery

shutterstock_20354401The investment attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP are investigating the potential unsuitable sales of securities sponsored by Waveland Capital Group LLC (Waveland), a purported merchant bank with a core investment focus in the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Waveland claims on its website that it invests in oil and gas exploration and development throughout the Mid-Continent and Permian Basin regions. In addition, Waveland invests capital to special private equity opportunities in select sectors such as medical device, health sciences, technology and manufacturing. Waveland has sponsored the following investments:

  • Waveland Drilling Partners Series III
  • Waveland Resource Partners II, L.P.
  • Waveland Energy 2011 Drilling Program
  • H2X Acquisition Partners, LLC
  • Waveland Drilling Partners 2011-A, L.P.
  • Waveland Resource Partners I, L.P.
  • Waveland Drilling Partners 2010-A, L.P.
  • Venture Aircraft, Inc.
  • Endoscopic Technologies, Inc.
  • Waveland Ventures V, LLC (Sonim Technologies)

Investors often do not understand the substantial risks of oil and gas limited partnerships and private placements. As recently reported in Reuters, when offerings by Atlas Energy LP, another issuer of oil and gas private placements were analyzed, investors only get to see 65-70% of their capital actually put to work on oil and gas projects. Further, the returns on these projects had more in common with running profitable casinos than investments. Reuters found that slightly more than half of 43 private placements Atlas issued over the past three decades investors lost money or just broke even. While investors lost in more than half of the deals in 29 or 67% of those deals, Atlas actually out-performed their own investors.

The costs and structures of many oil and gas private placements are very similar which cause these programs to fail at alarming rates even when oil and gas values trade favorable. Before recommending investments in oil and gas and commodities related investments, brokers and advisors must ensure that the investment is appropriate for the investor and conduct due diligence on the company in order to understand the risks and prospects of the company. Oil and gas and commodities related investments have been recommended by brokers under the assumption that commodities prices would continue to go up. However, brokers who sell oil and gas and commodities products are obligated to understand the risks of these investments and convey them to clients.

Our firm is investigating potential securities claims against brokerage firms over sales practices related to the recommendations of oil & gas and commodities products such as exchange traded notes (ETNs), structured notes, private placements, master limited partnerships (MLPs), leveraged ETFs, mutual funds, and individual stocks. Investors who have suffered losses may be able recover their losses through securities arbitration. Our consultations are free of charge and the firm is only compensated if you recover.

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