简介
Luckey McDowell is Team Leader of the Financial Restructuring & Insolvency practice.
With particularly deep experience representing energy sector clients, he focuses on capital restructuring for highly leveraged companies, out-of-court workouts, insolvency-specific guidance to boards, and all aspects of bankruptcy cases throughout the country. He also has extensive experience representing buy-side clients negotiating with financially distressed companies.
Within the energy industry, his clients include companies involved conventional and renewable power generation, as well as oil and gas exploration and production and oilfield services.
经验
Corporate Restructurings
- Southland Royalty Company – lead debtor’s counsel for a private-equity sponsored E&P oil and gas company with interests in over 8,000 wells throughout Wyoming, New Mexico, and Colorado
- GenOn Energy – counsel to parent company, NRG Energy, in the restructuring of its wholly-owned subsidiaries (with approximately $4 billion of debt)
- West Virginia oil & gas producer – representation of large producer in out-of-court restructuring
- New Gulf Resources, LLC – lead debtor's counsel for an E&P oil and gas company in its pre-negotiated chapter 11 bankruptcy case
- Hercules Offshore, Inc. – debtor's counsel for an offshore contract drilling and liftboat services company in the oil and gas industry in its prepackaged chapter 11 bankruptcy case
- Global Geophysical Services – lead debtor's counsel for seismic-services companies in the oil and gas industry, including the first foreign-recognition proceeding of a chapter 11 restructuring case in Colombia
- The Pacific Lumber Company – lead debtor's counsel for a timber harvesting and milling company
- ASARCO LLC – debtor's counsel for a large copper producer in connection with its complex chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Halliburton Company – representation of parent company in its prepackaged bankruptcy to isolate asbestos and silica-related liabilities
Acquisitions
- Sun Edison – representation of buyer in its acquisition of renewable energy projects both within and outside of Sun Edison's bankruptcy case
- Energy Future Holdings – representation of Hunt Power Holdings L.L.C. in pursuit of $12 billion acquisition of Oncor Electric Delivery Company
- Edison Mission Energy – representation of NRG Energy, Inc. in its $2.6 billion acquisition of more than 200 entities, including debtors and non-debtor affiliates
- Australis Aquaculture Limited – representation of an institutional investor in the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of a publicly-traded Australian company under the control of an administrator
- Cobalis Corp – representation of competing plan proponent in pharmaceuticals case
Strategic Counterparty Representations
- PG&E – representation of PPA counterparties holding approximately 2,000 MWh in long-term power purchase agreements
- Peabody – representation of counterparties in forward-contract termination dispute related to coal supply agreement
- Sherwin Alumina – counsel to cogeneration power plant in connection with the bankruptcy filing, and subsequent liquidation, of its on-site host company
- MLB Players Association – representation of players' association in connection with the bankruptcy case of the Texas Rangers baseball team
- SemGroup Energy Partners, L.P. – representation of a publicly traded MLP in connection with the bankruptcy case of its ultimate parent company, SemGroup, L.P.
资格
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教育
杜克大学法学院
Baylor University
B.B.A. in Economics and Insurance, cum laude
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律师执业许可
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有资格出庭的法院
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
- 美国联邦第九巡回上诉法院
- 美国联邦第五巡回上诉法院
个人成就
Professional Affiliations
- Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
- Dallas Bar Association
- DFW Association of Young Bankruptcy Lawyers
Awards & Accolades
- Recognized by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in Bankruptcy/Restructuring – Texas (2019-2022)
Speaking Engagements
- Buying Assets Out of Bankruptcy,” panelist for IPAA’s Industry Insights Webinar (July 29, 2020)
- “Proactively Navigating Distress in the Oil & Gas Industry,” panelist for IPAA’s Industry Insights webinar (April 29, 2020)
- Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law Symposium (February 21, 2020)
- Debtwire Distressed Energy Forum, Houston, (November 2, 2016)
- Debtwire Investors Summit, New York, (May 24, 2016)
News
- “Is the Regulated Utility Business Model Ultimately to Blame for PG&E Chapter 11 Filing?”, S & P Global, February 1, 2019
- “Ch. 11 Filing Gives PG&EChance to Douse Future Fire Claims”, Law360, January 29, 2019
- “California Shouldn’t Waste a PG&E Bankruptcy”, Bloomberg News, January 17, 2019