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Biography
Kevin is a partner in Vinson & Elkins' Houston office, and is an active member of the firm's Corporate Finance and Securities Group. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the firm's Corporate Governance and Compliance Group, and also participates as a member of the firm's Project Finance and Development Practice Group. Prior to relocating to Houston, Kevin practiced for many years in Singapore and in New York City, and he currently serves as the liaison partner for the firm's Asian offices and the firm's lateral hiring partner.
Kevin's clients have included boards of directors and audit committees, major commercial airlines, large electric retail providers, oilfield service companies, venture capital firms and their portfolio investment companies, investment banking houses, developers and owners of infrastructure projects, and other financial institutions and energy industry companies. He has significant experience in capital markets financings, including IPOs, ADRs, 144A and Reg S securities, equipment pass-through certificates, mortgage-backed securities and other asset securitizations. He also has extensive experience in venture capital transactions, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, e-commerce startups, and other structured financings (including aircraft sale-leaseback and other leveraged lease transactions). He has represented developers and lenders in numerous Asian infrastructure projects, including the Corridor Project, Project Finance magazine's 1997 Indonesian Deal of the Year.
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Experience
Capital markets and corporate finance
- Represented numerous public company boards of directors and audit committees in connection with Sarbanes-Oxley Act matters, board and committee structure and other corporate governance issues
- Represented major commercial airline in IPO (largest ever equity offering for US airline)
- Represented an international infrastructure company in connection with the acquisition and disposition of companies and assets
- Represented the underwriters in connection with the issuance of utility regulatory asset-backed transition bonds for a domestic utility
- Represented venture capital investors and their portfolio investment companies
- Represented a major commercial airline in connection with the repurchase and recapitalization of its securities in a transaction with a major stockholder
- Represented a major commercial airline in connection with the structuring of a capacity purchase arrangement with an affiliate airline
- Represented several e-Commerce companies in various stages of development
- Represented the Indonesian subsidiary of an international energy company in connection with its initial public offering in the U.S. capital markets
- Represented the first Fortune 500 company to list its shares on the Stock Exchange of Singapore
- Worked closely with the Indonesian securities regulatory administration to develop rules, recently adopted, to permit non-Indonesian companies to list Indonesian depositary receipts on the Jakarta Stock Exchange
- Represented the issuer of more than US$700 million of variable-rate mortgage-backed securities
- Represented numerous issuers and underwriters in connection with equity and debt offerings, including ADRs, 144A securities, and U.S. domestic offerings
Project and structured finance
- Represented developers and lenders in international project finance transactions, including the sponsors of a large international offshore gas development and cross-border pipeline transaction, including the structuring and financing aspects of the project
- Represented the issuer of equipment pass-through certificates to refinance approximately US$400 million of bridge debt incurred in connection with the leveraged lease of aircraft
- Represented international commercial banks in connection with the proposed syndicated project financing of power plants in Indonesia and Thailand
- Worked extensively on behalf of the project sponsor in connection with the development and financing of a gas processing facility in Vietnam, and has represented developers of large and small power projects (including gas, coal and hydroelectric projects) in Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines and various provinces in China
- Represented a large Indonesian energy company in connection with a variety of projects in Indonesia, including the successful development of a large integrated gas/pipeline/power project in Indonesia and the current development of gas/pipeline feedstock project in Southeast Asia
- Represented the underwriter of a proposed U.S. capital markets issue for an Asian power plant, and the developer of a large refining and petrochemical complex in India
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Activities and Affiliations
- Chair of the Board: Interfaith CarePartners
- Member, Board of Directors and Executive Committee: Asia Society Texas
- Member, Board of Trustees and Executive Committee: Shlenker School
- Member, Board of Advisors: Anti-Defamation League, Southwest Region
- Member, Board of Trustees: Congregation Beth Israel
- Listed: The Best Lawyers in America in corporate law, international trade, and finance law, 2006-2007; Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Project Finance Lawyers, 1999, 2001, 2004 and 2006; Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Energy and Natural Resources Lawyers, 1997; Global Law & Business, January 1996 review of lawyers in Singapore considered expert in their field; "Texas Super Lawyer" in securities and corporate finance law, Texas Monthly, 2005
- Speaker: "Transforming the Role of General Counsel and Legal Departments," Texas General Counsel Forum, Houston, Texas, November 2003; speaker on corporate governance issues and Asian energy industry topics
- Co-author: "The Qualified Legal Compliance Committee: A Practical Choice?" Securities Regulatory Update, Vol. 6, Issue 11, June 9, 2003; "Capital Markets Financing for Emerging Country Infrastructure Projects," Project Finance Monthly, September 2000
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Education and Professional Background
- Yale University, B.A. magna cum laude in history with honors and in economics with honors, 1983
- Harvard Law School, J.D. cum laude, 1986
- Law clerk to Judge Jerre S. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1986-1987
- Admitted to practice: Texas, 1986; New York, 1988
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