M. Scott Helbing

Corporate and Real Estate Finance

• Represented a financial institution as administrative agent, in a $162.4 million real estate secured term loan facility to large Texas based beverage distributor.
• Represented a financial institution as administrative agent, in a $40 million revolving credit facility to manufacturing company to support working capital and tuck in acquisitions.
• Represented a financial institution as administrative agent and co-lead arranger, in a $90 million term loan and $10 million revolver to finance a leveraged acquisition of a valve manufacturing company.
• Represented a financial institution as joint lead arranger and administrative agent, in a $50 million revolving credit facility and a $80 million term facility for a provider of bundled voice and data communications services to educational institutions.
• Represented a financial institution, as lender, in a $5 million revolving credit facility to a Delaware media corporation.
• Represented a financial institution as joint lead arranger, joint bookrunner and administrative agent, in a $500 million revolving credit and $984.375 million term loan facility to a premier mountain resort company.
• US $2.6 billion equivalent global credit facility to publicly traded REIT involving U.S., Canada, Euro, Japan, Korea, and China tranches.
• Real estate development, sale-leaseback, subleasing, acquisition and disposition of income producing properties and corporate headquarters.
• $1.5 billion revolving credit and letter of credit facilities to publicly traded national homebuilder.
• $1.21 billion revolving credit facility to publicly traded national homebuilder.
• $1.1 billion credit facility to publicly traded resort management company.
• Structuring and negotiating, on behalf of individual lenders and multi-jurisdictional bank syndicates, credit facilities to private equity funds, real estate development companies, and real estate investment trusts (REITs), and advising on related issues.
• $450 million revolving credit facility to publicly traded national homebuilder.
• $400 million multi-year revolving credit facility and $100 million 364-day multicurrency revolving credit facility to publicly traded real estate investment trust.
• $320 million advancing term loan facility to facilitate acquisition financing and refinancing of publicly traded senior notes secured by multiple hotel properties.
• Representation of borrowers and lenders in dozens of commercial and industrial middle market revolving and term loan facilities ranging from $3 million to $100 million.
• Representation of real estate partnership in the acquisition of multiple commercial properties and the assumption of multiple conduit loans secured thereby.

Energy Finance

• Represented a financial institution as administrative bank, issuing bank and lead arranger in a $250 million senior revolving credit facility secured by oil and gas reserves.
• Represented a financial institution as administrative bank, issuing bank and lead arranger in a $65 million senior revolving credit facility secured by oil and gas reserves.
• Represented a financial institution as administrative agent, in a $15 million revolving credit facility and a $42.5 million term facility to provide acquisition financing for private equity sponsor to acquire a majority interest in a leading manufacturer of pressure control connection products for the downstream, natural gas distribution, LNG, upstream, and general industrial market.
• Represented a financial institution as administrative agent and joint lead arranger, in a revolving secured reserve-based oil and gas credit facility to a privately held oil and natural gas company with borrowing base of $400 million; maximum credit amount of $500 million.
• Representation of administrative agent in $250 million facility secured by producing properties in Kansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota and Texas.
• Representation of energy lenders in bank facilities ($5 million to $150 million) in connection with secured reserve based oil and gas production loans.
• Represented a financial institution in connection with the bankruptcy exit financing of an oil and gas company operating in the Eagle Ford.
• Representation of agent in revolving credit and term facility for the roll up of multiple Texas based oil field service companies.
• Representation of lender in multiple reserve based credit facilities to independent producers of oil and gas properties in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, New York, and North Dakota.
• Representation of corporation engaged in the drilling and completion of offshore oil and gas wells in connection with its $150 million senior credit facility.