Practical Considerations in Structuring Alternative Financing Transactions for Upstream Producers
Webinar begins at 12:00 pm Central
Duration: 1 hour
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Overview
This webinar will provide an overview of alternative financing transactions. The three panelists will discuss best practices in documenting alternative financing transactions and the importance of mitigating associated insolvency risk and commodity price volatility. They will also cover an examination of VPPs, ABS and ORRIs as well as the treatment of such instruments in a bankruptcy proceeding involving the grantor, particularly an action in bankruptcy to recharacterize the transaction.
Webinar begins at 12:00 pm Central
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers
Omar J. Alaniz
Reed Smith LLP
Dallas, TX
Omar Alaniz is the Managing Partner of Reed Smith’s Dallas office. Omar represents distressed companies in out of court workouts and chapter 11 restructurings and regularly advises boards of directors in developing liability management solutions. He also represents other key stakeholders in distressed situations. His industry experience includes energy, industrial, real estate, financial services, utilities, aviation, and health care. He has appeared in bankruptcy and appellate courts throughout the country, including the Texas and U.S. Supreme Courts.
Kim Mai
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Houston, TX
Kim Mai is a member of the Energy Practice Group in the firm's Houston office. Her practice focuses on complex upstream and midstream oil and gas transactions, including financing, acquisitions and dispositions and hedging transactions. Kim has advised a wide variety of clients, including oil and gas companies and financial institutions.
Rahul D. Vashi
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Houston, TX
Rahul D. Vashi is a partner in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Co-Chair of the firm’s Oil and Gas practice group and a member of the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure and Mergers and Acquisitions practice groups. Rahul’s practice focuses on acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic joint ventures involving a broad range of energy assets, with an emphasis on the upstream and midstream sectors. Rahul’s practice includes advising clients with the formation of drilling partnerships, joint development arrangements, farmout and participation agreements and other joint venture arrangements, the acquisition and divestiture of upstream and midstream oil and gas assets and companies, and oil and gas special situations and alternative financing transactions.
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