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Biography
Robert has a diverse practice in commercial and capital markets financing transactions representing corporate borrowers and issuers, institutional investors and insurance companies, and foreign and domestic commercial banks and underwriters. As a significant part of that practice, Robert negotiates and documents derivative agreements.
Robert’s commercial finance practice has centered on the energy industries and related service and marketing businesses, including reserve based lending for multi-national oil and gas companies, project and off-balance sheet financings, and derivative linked, structured financings. Robert's experience, however, also includes financing transactions with maritime and consumer products companies.
Robert’s derivative experience includes advising clients on legal issues pertaining to derivatives, and negotiating and documenting on behalf of financial institutions and corporate and municipal end-users currency exchange agreements, interest rate swaps, commodity price swaps, and swap options using both standard ISDA documentation and non-standard forms. Robert also has advised numerous clients on forward sale transactions and related Commodity Exchange Act issues.
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Experience
- Represented Purchasers consisting of various insurance companies, hedge funds, private equity funds and other financial institutions in Private Placement of $70 million of Fixed and Variable Rate Senior Subordinated Second Lien Notes due 2007 of an independent oil and gas exploration company
- Represented a specialty and safety products manufacturing company and its subsidiaries, as debtors in possession, in exit financing to effect Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization in a recapitalization consisting of $42 million Senior First Lien Revolving Credit Facility and Term A Loan from a major asset-based lender, $43 million Senior Second Lien Term B Loan from a private equity fund and affiliated accredited investors, $20 million Senior Subordinated Third Lien Term C Loan from a consortium of insurance companies and private equity funds, and the sale of $14 million of shares of new common stock to various private equity funds
- Represented Investors consisting of various insurance companies and hedge/private equity funds in Private Placement of $185 million of 9-3/4% Convertible Senior Notes due 2010 of independent oil and gas exploration company
- Represented Initial Purchaser in Rule 144A sale of $130 million of 12-1/2% amortizing senior second lien notes due 2006 and shares of common stock issued by debtor in possession as part of exit financing to effect Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization for independent oil and gas exploration company
- Represented Initial Purchaser and certain secondary investors consisting of private equity funds in sale of $71 million of Escalating Rate Senior Second Lien Notes due 2007, related common stock purchase warrants, related $9 million Term B Loan and Credit Agreements, and related common stock purchase warrants of a major regional cafeteria chain
- Represented a major multi-national corporation in a $2 billion fully defeased, tax advantaged, cross-border structured financing
- Represented a major automotive consolidator in negotiating its $1 billion secured senior credit facility with a syndicate of commercial banks and trade creditors; the security package involved both real and personal property in more than 12 states
- Represented a major independent exploration and production in their short-term and long-term debt facilities, aggregating approximately $750 million
- Represented a major independent exploration and production company in their $700 million, multi-currency, secured acquisition financing; the transactions involved oil and gas properties in approximately 7 states as well as Canada
- Represented a major commercial lender in a $250 million reserve based, secured, syndicated financing for an independent oil and gas exploration and production company and convertible preferred stock
- Represented a leading US and European pet food manufacturer in negotiating its approximately $450 million and E80 million secured senior, acquisition facility with a syndicate of commercial banks and institutional investors; the security package involved both real and personal property in more than 12 states and various European jurisdictions
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Activities and Affiliations
- Listed: The Best Lawyers in America in banking law, 2006; Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers in banking and finance law, 2005-2006; "Texas Rising Star" and "Texas Super Lawyer" in securities and corporate finance, Texas Monthly, 2005; "Lawyers on the Fast Track," H Texas, 2004
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Education and Professional Background
- Louisiana State University, B.S. in political science and philosophy, 1986
- Herbert Law Center at Louisiana State University, J.D., 1989 (Louisiana Law Review; Order of the Coif)
- Admitted to practice: Louisiana, 1989; Texas, 1990
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