Haynes and Boone, LLP

Haynes Boone's energy finance practice illustrates the firm's connection to financial institutions, investors, and operating businesses. It represents lenders and borrowers in transactions involving oil and gas, electric power, natural resources, and renewable or alternative energy. The work combines financing law with an understanding of the assets and revenue streams supporting a transaction.

In oil and gas, its published capabilities include reserve-based loans, production payment financings, and commodity hedging. Clients include banks, investment banks, private equity and hedge fund investors, non-bank lenders, and energy companies. These matters can involve private credit as well as institutional and public financing markets.

The firm's energy and projects services also address limited-recourse and non-recourse financing. For students interested in this work, the practice offers a concrete example of how lawyers connect loan structures, commercial risk, and industry operations. The underlying project or resource is part of the legal analysis, rather than simply the backdrop to a financing document.