Caitlin Lawrence advises publicly and privately held corporate borrowers and issuers, credit funds, private equity funds and commercial banks in commercial financing, direct lending and other complex financial transactions. Her experience includes back-leverage and tax equity financings, reserve-based and asset-based facilities, project financings, acquisition financings, mezzanine facilities, direct lending, restructurings and other structured financings.
Caitlin has significant energy, power and infrastructure financing experience, including matters in the renewable and energy transition space, the oil and natural gas markets, the power sector and infrastructure financings. Caitlin has energy and power-industry experience, including matters involving residential, commercial and industrial and utility scale solar, utility and transmission infrastructure, manufacturing facilities, oil and gas exploration and production, midstream, oilfield services, distribution, storage, transportation, sustainability and retail.
Related Experience
- Renewable energy equipment manufacturing company in a project financing for the development of a solar panel manufacturing facility
- Solar developer in a development financing for a utility-scale solar facility in Texas
- CVR Energy, Inc. in a $325.0 million senior secured term loan B
- Private equity backed upstream company in a $75.0 million reserve-based secured credit facility
- U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office in a $15.0 billion loan guarantee to Pacific Gas and Electric Company to support a portfolio of projects to expand hydropower generation and battery storage, upgrade transmission capacity through reconductoring and grid enhancing technologies, and enable virtual power plants
- U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office in a conditional commitment for a loan guarantee of up to $4.9 billion to Grain Belt Express LLC, a high-voltage direct current interregional transmission line
- Private equity backed midstream company in an acquisition financing to fund the purchase of certain pipeline and terminals systems
- Sunnova Energy International Inc. in a $1.575 billion back-leverage solar asset warehouse credit facility
- Sunnova Energy International Inc. in a $1.0 billion revolving solar loan warehouse credit facility
- Sunnova Energy International Inc. in a $400 million offering of green bonds
- Cactus, Inc. in a $350 million secured asset-backed credit facility
- CVR Energy, Inc. in a $600 million offering of senior notes
- Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. in a $300 million offering of senior notes
- Martin Midstream Partners in a $200 million secured revolving credit facility
- Martin Midstream Partners in a $400 million offering of senior secured notes
- A commercial lender in project financing to fund the construction and development of an e-recycling facility
Education
J.D., University of Chicago Law School 2013
B.A., Political Science, University of Notre Dame 2010magna cum laude
Admissions & Affiliations
State Bar of Texas
Houston Bar Association