Matthew Lea

Background

About Matthew Lea

My practice focuses on representing lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of conventional and mezzanine energy financing and related secured transactions, including reserve-based lending and revolving and term credit facilities. My practice spans multiple industries in connection with a broad range of secured and unsecured commercial finance transactions, such as syndicated financings, asset-based financings, bilateral loans and loan workout and restructuring transactions, including debtor-in-possession and exit credit facilities. I also advise clients on energy commodity and other hedging transactions, including secured hedging transactions and structured commodity transactions. I am experienced with negotiating, drafting and assisting in-house counsel with intercreditor agreements, hedging agreements (including ISDA Master Agreements and NAESBs), netting agreements, guarantees, and trade confirmations. In addition, I provide counsel to clients regarding Dodd-Frank compliance issues relating to swaps, including the ISDA Dodd-Frank Protocols. I also have experience with other types of energy-related transactions such as acquisitions and divestitures and the preparation and negotiation of production payments (whether volumetric or dollar denominated), oil and gas leases, seismic permits, operating agreements, participations agreements, asset acquisition agreements, easement agreements and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management qualifications and operating right and record title assignments. I was editor-in-chief of the South Texas Law Review. Views expressed are my own and not those of Morgan Lewis.