Partner, Dallas

Practice Description

James W. McKellar advises clients in structuring, negotiating, and documenting business transactions with an emphasis on capital markets, energy, and financial transactions. His experience includes counseling clients in connection with workouts, restructurings, bankruptcy, and creditors' rights; energy commodity purchases and derivative transactions; and general corporate matters.

Representations

• Acted as primary counsel for the lead arranger or the issuer in capital markets transactions aggregating in excess of $8 billion in 2006 involving financings for merger and acquisition transactions, midstream and upstream master limited partnerships, holding companies of master limited partnerships, energy investment funds and other investment vehicles, senior, second lien and subordinate debt structures, hedging lines of credit, and general corporate purpose credit

• Represented a public company in the restructuring of $150 million of debt involving the exchange of subordinated debt for equity and the restructure of senior bank debt

• Represented a private company in the restructuring of $65 million of existing debt and raising of $70 million of new financing in a non-bankruptcy workout

• Advised a client in the restructuring of debt of a South American energy project involving private capital and governmental credit agency

• Represented the agent under a $300 million credit facility in a bankruptcy resulting in a reorganization and replacement credit facility

Distinctions/Honors

• The Best Lawyers in America^® by Woodward/White Inc. (Banking Law, Structured Finance Law); 2001-present

• Chambers USA by Chambers & Partners (Banking & Finance); 2006-present

Press Releases/In the News

• "New Deals" section, Texas Lawyer; August 02, 2010
  

• T&K Assists Alfa in $1.3 Billion Eagle Ford Shale Joint Venture; July 09, 2010
  

Presentations/Publications

• Oil and Gas Hedging: How Will It Change?, June 28, 2010
  

• "Oil and Gas Financing 'How it Works'," 32nd Annual Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas, and Mineral Institute, Houston, Texas, March 31, 2006
  

Activities

• Member, Texas Association of Bank Counsel

• Member, American College of Investment Counsel