About Catherine
Cathy has extensive experience advising public utilities and competitive energy issuers on securities offerings. She represents issuers, underwriters and institutional investors in the full range of debt, equity and hybrid securities offerings by such issuers, including offerings of first mortgage and collateral trust bonds, green bonds, unsecured notes, tax-exempt debt, debt for projects, high-yield debt, and common and preferred equity. She also represents energy and utility companies in commercial lending transactions.
Cathy is ranked Band 1 in Energy: Electricity (Finance) in both Chambers USA (2019-2020) and Chambers Global (2019-2021). She has also been recognized by The Legal 500 United States for Project Finance (2019) and Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power (2019). Cathy is a fellow and trustee of the American College of Investment Counsel, as well as a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Experience
Recent Notable Matters
Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank — as agent to the lenders in the $2.44 billion letter of credit facility and approximately $544 million in funded debt for McDermott International in the successfully completed emergence from bankruptcy
Kentucky Utilities Company — $500 million offering of first mortgage bonds
PPL Capital Funding Inc. and PPL Corporation — $400 million in multiple term loans to PPL Capital Funding Inc., as borrower, and PPL Corporation, as guarantor
Darden Restaurants, Inc. — underwriters counsel in offering of 9,000,000 shares of common stock
PPL Electric Utilities Corporation — $400 million first mortgage bond offering
DTE Electric Company — underwriters counsel in two offerings of $1.7 billion of mortgage bonds
DTE Energy Company — underwriters counsel in offering of $2.4 billion of securities, including equity units, common stock and senior notes, to fund the acquisition of midstream natural gas assets
Crédit Agricole — $1.7 billion new financing for McDermott International which includes immediate access to $650 million of financing comprised of $550 million under a term loan credit facility and $100 million under a letter of credit facility, as lead arranger and revolving administrative agent
PPL Corporation subsidiaries — $1.1 billion of mortgage bond transactions*
DTE Electric Company — underwriters counsel in connection with $650 million green bond offering. The bond sale was among the first wave of offerings in the United States by an investor-owned utility to specifically support “green” investments*
DTE Energy Company — underwriters counsel in $800 million senior notes offering*
DTE Energy Company — underwriters counsel in $600 million senior notes offering*
DTE Gas Company — represent purchasers in private placement of $320 million of DTE Gas Company first mortgage bonds*
DTE Energy — underwriters counsel in offering of $675 million of equity units and $1 billion of senior notes to fund purchase of midstream natural gas gathering assets*
Darden Restaurants, Inc. — underwriters counsel in $500 million senior notes offering to fund purchase of Cheddar’s Restaurant Holding Corp.**
PPL Corporation subsidiaries — $2.9 billion Rule 144A/Reg. S offerings of secured and unsecured debt, including preparation of two new utility mortgage bond indentures*
DTE Electric Company — underwriters counsel in connection with $525 million green bonds offering*
DTE Energy Company — underwriters counsel in connection with $300 million of junior subordinated debentures*
Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities — registered offerings of more than $1.5 billion of first mortgage bonds
Talen Energy Supply — remarketing of $230.57 million of tax-exempt bonds issued on its behalf*
PPL Energy Plus LLC and affiliates — $800 million secured energy trading facility to provide credit support for trading operations*
Dealer managers — tender for senior notes of Darden Restaurants, Inc.*
DTE Electric Company and DTE Gas Company — represent purchasers in private placements of first mortgage bonds*
Darden Restaurants, Inc. — designated purchasers’ counsel in private placement of $300 million of senior notes*
PPL Electric Utilities — $223.75 million tax-exempt bond offering*
PPL Capital Funding Inc. — represent issuer in $500 million junior subordinated debenture offering*
* Work completed prior to Bracewell