Charles "Charlie" Harris
Charles “Charlie” Harris is a partner in the Finance Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Charlotte office.
His practice focuses on secured and unsecured credit facilities (syndicated and bilateral) involving companies in a broad range of industries, including health care, media and communications, financial services, utilities, gas and oil and manufacturing.
- Represented a US$640,000,000 (Comprised of a US$380,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility and a US$260,000,000 Term Loan Facility), Senior Secured Credit Facility in favor of a privately-held fixed base of operations operator for private aviation. Charlie represented the Lead Arranger and Administrative Agent in this syndicated credit facility. This credit facility involved complications arising with dozens of locations of operations, interaction with governmental aviation boards and documentary and intangibles taxation.
- Represented a US$1,256,250,000 (Comprised of a US$800,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility, a US$206,250,000 Term Loan A and a US$250,000,000 Delayed Draw Term Loan) Senior Unsecured Credit Facility in favor of a public company manufacturer of fuselages and cockpit components incorporated into Boeing and Airbus aircraft. Charlie represented the Lead Arranger and the Administrative Agent in this syndicated credit facility.
- Represented a Senior Secured Credit Facility in favor of entities comprising a for-profit university. Charlie represented the Lead Arranger and Administrative Agent in this syndicated credit facility. This credit facility involved complications arising in connection with lending to a for-profit educational institution, which is heavily regulated by the United States federal government.
- Represented a US$125,000,000 (comprised of a US$50,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility and a US$75,000,000 Term Loan) Senior Secured Credit Facility in favor of a public insurance company that primarily provides personal and commercial residential insurance in the coastal United States. Charlie represented the Lead Arranger and Administrative Agent in this syndicated credit facility.
- Represented a US$1,050,000,000 (comprised of a US $450,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility and a US $350,000,000 Term Loan B), with an additional advance under the Term Loan B of US$250,000,000, Senior Secured Credit Facility in favor of a Canadian multinational electronic manufacturing services company. Charlie represented the Lead Arranger and Administrative Agent in this syndicated credit facility.
Some of these representations were handled by Charlie prior to joining Haynes Boone.
- Executive Leadership Team – Heart Ball, American Heart Association, 2016-2017
- North Carolina Bar Association
- Child Care Resources, Inc., Chair of the Board
- Chambers USA, Chambers and Partners, North Carolina – Banking & Finance, 2014-2015, 2018-2019 and 2021-2023
- Named a “Key Lawyer,” Commercial Lending, Legal 500 US, 2021
- Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc., Banking and Finance Law, 2020-2024; Commercial Finance Law, 2023-2024
- IFLR1000, Highly Regarded – Banking and Finance, 2018-2022
Education
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2002, Articles Editor, Virginia Tax Review; Editorial Board Member, Journal of Law & Politics
B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998, Morehead Scholar
Admissions
North Carolina
Partners Laura Whitley, Charlie Harris and Ben Owens authored an article in Bloomberg Law discussing some of the more common constructs for restrictions on a lender's ability to sell its interest in a credit facility to a competitor of the borrower. For borrowers under all types of credit facilities, the identity of the institutions providing credit, and those entities’ access to the borrower's co [...]
