Our banking and finance lawyers represent financial institutions, corporate borrowers, securities issuers and other users of capital, intermediaries and other participants in a wide variety of financing transactions and financial restructurings. Institutional clients include banks, insurance companies and other institutional investors as well as commercial financing and leasing companies. Our lawyers help clients provide or obtain financing through such vehicles and structures as syndicated credit facilities, private placements, mezzanine financings, high-yield debt offerings, asset-based loans, asset securitizations and other structured financings, leasing transactions, and hedging and other derivatives transactions. We also advise institutional clients in federal and state regulatory matters.

Baker Botts consistently ranks among the leading firms in the world in financing transactions in the energy industry. One of our recent representations, Mariner Energy's acquisition of the Gulf of Mexico assets of Forest Oil, was named by Oil and Gas Investor in their 2006 Excellence Awards as "Financing of the Year." Our lawyers have substantial experience in many other industries: manufacturing; real estate; transportation; chemicals; computers; information technology; outsourcing; media and telecommunications; retail and consumer services; restaurants; and sports and entertainment.