Eric regularly represents borrowers and issuers in corporate financing matters, guiding them through syndicated loans, high-yield debt offerings, bridge financings, acquisition financings, asset-backed loans, project financings, hedging transactions, and private credit transactions. He also works with direct lenders, private capital providers, and institutional investors on complex transactions, helping clients structure and execute deals efficiently while navigating practical business considerations.
His experience includes secured and unsecured debt financing, syndicated, bank, and private credit facilities, and derivative transactions, including commodity and interest rate swaps. Eric advises clients on acquisition financings and recapitalizations to reduce debt and extend maturities, while supporting project financings and private debt investments that align with broader strategic objectives.
Eric’s clients include borrowers, issuers, developers, and institutional investors across industries such as oil and gas, renewable energy, and technology. He regularly works with upstream and midstream energy companies, oilfield services providers, renewable energy developers, direct lenders, and private capital providers, helping them manage complex financing structures and achieve their commercial goals.
Representative Experience
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- Represented an upstream oil and gas company as borrower in securing a $2.5 billion bridge loan commitment and as issuer in a $4 billion senior notes offering.
- Represented a Native American tribe in connection with a $295 million credit facility, which included a revolving facility of $100 million and term loans of $195 million.
- Represented a geothermal energy company as borrower in $100 million term loan project finance transaction.
- Represented a midstream company as issuer in $400 million securitization transaction.
- Represented a private credit lender in a $60 million secured loan to a software company.
- Represented investors in $400 million second lien subordinated debt transaction.
- Represented ad hoc group of lenders in exit financing of oil field services company.
- Represented noteholders in restructuring of an oil and gas company, including issuance of $225 million of second lien notes and a $400 million revolving credit facility.
- Represented an oil and gas company as borrower in connection with a $1 billion secured credit facility.
- Represented an electric power company as borrower in connection with refinancing of a $180 million secured term loan agreement.
- Represented a renewable energy company as borrower in a $118 million secured construction loan agreement.
- Represented development company as borrower in $115 million solar power project finance transaction.
- Represented a diversified midstream master limited partnership in the refinancing of its revolving credit facility with $950 million in new commitments, including a $650 million revolving credit facility and a $300 million Term Loan A.
- Advised an independent oil and gas company, in connection with its senior secured credit facility and the $405 million sale of proved developed producing reserves in Reagan and Glasscock counties, Texas.
- Represented a private equity-backed processor of organic and conventional fruits in a revolving credit facility, an amendment to a term loan facility, and an intercreditor agreement.
- Represented a private-equity backed waste management company as borrower in $85 million acquisition finance transaction.
- Represented an upstream oil and gas company in the restructuring of its secured indebtedness to address liquidity needs, including negotiating finance and security documents and coordinating complex hedging-related security arrangements with separate counsel.
- Advised an upstream oil and gas company on a secured term loan and hedging facility to fund capital expenditures and support cash flow following its acquisition of oil and gas properties in the Permian Basin.
- Advised institutional investors, private equity firms, and other investors on secured debt financings and restructuring transactions.
- Represented trustees in various public and private debt offerings by issuers across industries, including energy, hospitality, and business services.
Professional & Civic Engagement
- Hispanic Bar Association of Houston, Officer
- Texas Appleseed, Board of Directors
- University of Houston Law Center, Alumni Board
- Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
- American Bar Foundation, Fellow
Honors & Awards
- Recognized by Texas Lawyer as a Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Finalist, 2025
- Recipient of the University of Houston Law Alumni Association’s Diversity & Inclusion Award, 2024
- Recipient of the Houston Bar Association (HBA) Diversity Award – Individual, 2023
- Named an Outstanding Diversity Champion by the Houston Business Journal, 2022
- Recognized by Latino Leaders as a Top Latino Lawyer, 2021
- Named a Diversity & Inclusion Champion by Texas Lawyer, 2020
