Dewey J Gonsoulin Jr

Leads a team that effectively and efficiently represents commercial lenders, mezzanine lenders, corporate borrowers and other financial institutions in all types of financing transactions. For more than three decades, has devoted a significant portion of his practice to energy financing. Widely recognized for his expertise in upstream finance and also has extensive experience in oilfield service and midstream pipeline financings. Focuses primarily on credit facilities in the upstream energy sector, including traditional borrowing base credit facilities provided by senior bank lenders to independent producers as well as more complex mezzanine and development financing transactions. During periods of economic downturn, works alongside the firm’s restructuring practice, serving as lead transaction counsel on numerous workouts and restructurings involving energy companies. Partnering with his major banking clients, he has been instrumental in assisting clients with reserved based loans, senior secured revolving credit facilities and other financing arrangements pertaining to both foreign and domestic assets.

Chair, Finance Department

State Bar of Texas, Houston Bar Association

The University of Texas School of Law, J.D., 1991; The University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of Business Administration, 1988, with honors