“Smart, practical, business-oriented and commercial.”
Chambers USA 2022
"She is very good to deal with, very smart and a careful lawyer."
Chambers USA 2021
Profile
Catherine Ozdogan, a partner in the Houston office of Latham & Watkins and former Chair of the firm’s Houston Finance Department, represents financial institutions and corporate borrowers in connection with a wide variety of commercial lending transactions in the oil and gas exploration and production, midstream, and service-related sectors.
As one of the leading Banking and Finance lawyers in Texas in Chambers USA Guide America’s Leading Business Lawyers 2008-2022
For her work in Banking & Finance in The Best Lawyers in America 2012-2024 (Best Lawyers is by BL Rankings)
For her work in Finance & Bank Lending by The Legal 500 US 2009-2013
For her work in Project Finance in The Legal 500 US 2010 and 2011
Experience
Ms. Ozdogan’s representative finance transactions include advising:
Great Western Petroleum, LLC in connection with a US$600 million senior secured reserve based revolving credit facility agented by MUFG Union Bank, N.A.
UGI Energy Services, LLC in connection with an underwritten US$700 million senior secured term loan facility, the proceeds of which were used to finance the acquisition of Columbia Midstream Group, LLC
BJ Services LLC in connection with a US$200 million senior secured term loan facility secured by machinery and equipment
UGI Corporation in connection with US$850 million senior unsecured revolving credit and term loan facilities, the proceeds of which were used to finance the acquisition of a portion of the issued and outstanding public common units of AmeriGas Partners, L.P. and to finance the acquisition of Columbia Midstream Group, LLC
UGI Corporation, the global natural gas distribution company, in connection with its €800 million syndicated revolving credit and term loan facilities, in order to refinance its existing capital structure
EQM Midstream Partners, LP in a US$1.4 billion senior unsecured term loan facility agented by Toronto-Dominion (Texas) LLC
Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. in connection with a US$111.8 million second lien term loan facility secured on US flagged offshore service vessels, the proceeds of which were used to repurchase and/or exchanged for the company’s outstanding convertible notes
MUFG Union Bank, N.A. in a US$3 billion senior secured reserve based revolving credit facility for Chesapeake Energy Corporation
A Morgan Stanley Investment Management portfolio company in an underwritten US$950 million senior secured super-priority revolver and term loan credit facilities agented by Jefferies Finance LLC, the proceeds of which were used to acquire Brazos Midstream
Bruin E&P Partners, LLC, an ArcLight Capital Partners portfolio company, in a US$1.5 billion senior secured first lien reserve based revolving credit facility agented by Bank of Montreal
Southwestern Energy Company in a US$2 billion senior secured reserve based credit facility agented by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Centennial Resource Production, LLC in a US$1.5 billion senior secured reserved based revolving credit facility agented by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
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