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About Andrew

Andrew represents both lenders and borrowers in a variety of traditional and creative secured and unsecured credit transactions. He advises clients in connection with leveraged and investment grade credit facilities, including reserve based loans, acquisition financings, multi-currency facilities, and cross-border facilities, as well as distressed credits in restructuring and workout situations. A large portion of Andrew’s practice consists of representing large commercial banks, both domestic and international, in connection with syndicated credit facilities to exploration and production companies, midstream companies, oilfield services companies, and commodity trading and storage companies.

Andrew has advised clients involved in distressed credits proceeding through bankruptcy, and he has worked on a number of debtor-in-possession credit facilities and exit credit facilities.

Experience

Recent Notable Matters

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association — as lender, administrative agent and collateral agent in the successfully completed exit financing for Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. and certain affiliates. The exit financing included approximately $400 million in a revolving credit facility, $100 million in a term loan and over $85 million in privately placed notes.

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association — as administrative agent to the senior lien bank group in connection with the pre-arranged bankruptcy filing of Penn Virginia Corporation and its subsidiaries, including the debtor-in-possession facility and exit facility, which exit facility is currently a first lien secured, $1 billion oil and gas reserve based revolving credit facility

Macquarie Bank Limited — as administrative agent in connection with the documentation and restructuring of 1st and 2nd lien cross-collateralized facilities to a privately held agricultural commodities company, including a revolving credit facility, hedging facility, and inventory repurchase facility

Sysco Corporation — as borrower in its multi-currency $2 billion unsecured revolving credit facility

Multinational investment bank and financial services company — as administrative agent in a $225 million secured revolving credit facility consisting of a cash flow revolving tranche and an asset-based revolving tranche, to a privately held oil and gas commodities trading and storage company, secured by substantially all assets including an oil and gas storage facility

Multinational investment bank and financial services company — as administrative agent in a $750 million secured revolving reserve based loan to a private equity-backed exploration and production company to finance the acquisition of oil and gas properties in New Mexico and Texas

Multinational investment bank and financial services company — as administrative agent in a $1 billion secured revolving reserve based loan to a private equity-backed exploration and production company to finance the acquisition of oil and gas properties in Wyoming

Multinational investment bank and financial services company — as administrative agent in a $385 million secured revolving credit facility to USD Partners LP, secured by substantially all assets including rail and terminaling facilities in Canada, Oklahoma, and Wyoming

Multinational investment bank and financial services company — as administrative agent in a $500 million secured revolving credit facility to a private equity-backed midstream company, secured by substantially all assets including gathering, processing, and pipeline assets in Wyoming

Multinational investment bank and financial services company — as administrative agent in a $200 million secured revolving credit facility to a private equity-backed midstream company, secured by substantially all assets including gathering, processing, and pipeline assets in Canada

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association — as administrative agent in a $1.75 billion secured revolving credit facility to Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP

Multinational investment bank and financial services company — as administrative agent for a $1.75 billion unsecured revolving credit facility to Enable Midstream Partners, LP

Multinational investment bank and financial services company — as administrative agent for a $1 billion unsecured term loan facility to Enable Midstream Partners, LP

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association — as administrative agent in a $750 million unsecured revolving credit facility to Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

Credentials

Education

University of Houston Law Center,
J.D.
2014
cum laude
University of Denver,
B.S.B.A.
2008

Bar Admissions

Texas

Languages

Spanish

Affiliations

Houston Bar Association

News

Noteworthy

Noteworthy

BL Rankings
Best Lawyers
Ones to Watch, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2024
Thomson Reuters
Super Lawyers
Texas Rising Star, 2023-2024
Lawdragon Inc.
Lawdragon 500 X - The Next Generation
Finance & Restructuring, especially Energy, 2023
University of Houston Law Center
Order of the Barons
University of Houston Law Center
Houston Journal of International Law
Business Editor
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Judicial Intern for the Honorable Nancy F. Atlas