Brian Minyard

Practice Areas

BRIAN MINYARD’s practice focuses principally on debt financing transactions, including syndicated bank loans, lending facilities for direct lenders and private credit funds, and the private placement of debt securities by direct and mezzanine lenders. He has extensive experience with financing in all aspects of the energy industry, including both the renewables, infrastructure and energy transition sectors and the oil and gas exploration and production, midstream and oilfield services sectors. In addition, Brian has been involved in a wide variety of energy restructurings and debtor-in-possession financings, representing both debtors and financial institutions.

Brian represents and advises both capital providers and borrowers in structuring, negotiating and documenting complex financing transactions, including acquisition and committed financings, reserve-based lending facilities, direct and credit fund lending facilities, uni-tranche and second lien credit facilities and holding company and other mezzanine financings. He also has experience with industry specific structured finance transactions, including the conveyance of volumetric production payments, overriding royalty interests and net profits interests.