Energy Finance

Lawyers in our Global Finance group have substantial experience representing companies as borrowers, and financial institutions as agents, arrangers, lenders and participants, in virtually every aspect of the energy industry, including financings involving oil and gas companies, oilfield service companies, oil and natural gas, refined product and CO2 pipeline companies, electric utilities, merchant electric transmission companies, independent power producers, alternative energy developers, suppliers and contractors and energy trading companies.

Such financings include:

• Asset-based loans
• Commodity and interest rate swaps and other derivatives transactions
• Cross-border financings
• Equipment financings
• Energy trading company financings
• ESOP loans
• Leveraged acquisition and recapitalization financings
• Letter of credit facilities
• Master limited partnership financings
• Mezzanine and second-lien financings
• Oil and gas securitization
• Project financings
• Reserve-based oil and gas financings
• Spinoff financings
• Sponsor-led financings
• Upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas financings Working capital and fixed asset financings and refinancings
• Workouts and restructurings

Experienced finance lawyers in our offices around the world work together in the representation of agents, arrangers, lenders, participants and borrowers in cross-border financings, including structuring foreign collateral arrangements, and single-currency and multi-currency facilities. Our practice involves a broad range of issues arising out of unsecured and secured financial transactions, from the origination of credits through work-outs and restructurings.