Andy Chen is of counsel in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he is a member of the Finance, Private Equity, and Oil and Gas Practice Groups. Andy advises clients on debt financings, including corporate lending transactions and leveraged acquisition financings in the oil and gas exploration and production, midstream, and oilfield services sectors, as well as the renewable and clean energy sectors. He represents both capital providers and borrowers in connection with credit facilities and note purchase facilities, including acquisition financings, reserve-based lending facilities, second lien credit facilities and cash flow loans. In addition, Andy has experience with debtor-in-possession financings, exit financings, workouts and restructurings, and complex cross-border transactions.
Andy earned his Juris Doctor from University of Virginia School of Law, during which he was a member of the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology and interned for The Office of Virginia Attorney General and on Capitol Hill for the Senate Judiciary Committee. Andy graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Biological Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania.
While attending university, Andy co-founded a summer science camp for underprivileged middle school students in the Philadelphia area. He is a member of the Houston Bar Association.
Representative Experience*
Lender Representations
- JPMorgan Chase Bank, as administrative agent – $1.5 billion unsecured revolving credit facility for Coterra Energy Inc.
- Mercuria Investments US, Inc., as arranger and administrative agent – $20 million secured term loan credit facility for American Battery Technology Company
- Administrative Agent – $40 million revolving credit facility and separate $35 million term loan credit facility for solar panel installation company
- MUFG Union Bank, N.A., as administrative agent – secured $1.75 billion revolving credit facility and separate $750 million term credit facility in connection with the exit financing for Chesapeake Energy Corporation
- SunTrust Bank, as administrative agent – secured $750 million revolving credit facility in connection with the acquisition of Landmark Infrastructure Partners LP
- Ares Capital Corporation, as administrative agent – secured $155 million unitranche credit facility, including a $25 million delayed draw feature, extended to a privately held exploration and production company with acreage and producing assets located in Texas and Oklahoma
- JPMorgan Chase Bank, as administrative agent – pre-petition asset-based loan facility in connection with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of BJ Services, LLC and its affiliates
- Administrative Agent – $1.38 billion senior revolving credit facility, $500 million senior secured term loan facility and $317 million 364-day senior secured second lien term loan facility for Weatherford International
- Energy-focused investment firm – $100 million second lien term loan facility for acquisition by DJR Energy LLC's of Encana's San Juan Basin assets located in northern New Mexico
- Administrative Agent – $250 million senior secured reserved-based revolving credit facility with an initial borrowing base of $40 million for a privately held oil and gas company with assets concentrated in the Eagle Ford Basin
- Various arrangers and administrative agents in reserve-based revolving credit facilities for exploration and production companies with assets in basins throughout the United States
Borrower/Sponsor Representations:
- Presidio Investment Holdings LLC (Presidio Petroleum) – a portfolio company of Morgan Stanley Energy Partners, in the largest to date by value securitization of oil and gas proved develop producing (PDP) assets
- Sponsor-backed biofuels company – $80 million senior secured term loan and separate $50 million unsecured term loan in connection with the conversion of an oil refinery to a renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel production facility
- Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC – $1 billion senior secured revolving credit facility to support company’s continued expansion
- Represented client on subscription facility with Citibank for EMG Fund V
- Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners – $1.5 billion senior secured term loan B facility and separate senior secured revolving credit facility' in connection with Oryx Midstream Services
- CITGO Petroleum Corporation – $1.2 billion senior secured term loan B facility
- CITGO Holding. Inc. – $500 million senior secured term loan B facility
- Amcor plc – $4.5 billion multi-tranche senior revolving and term loan credit facilities in connection with Amcor's acquisition of Bemis Company Inc
- Archrock Partners – $1.1 billion secured revolving credit facility
- Energy-focused sponsor – $100 million secured revolving credit facility in connection with the acquisition of a water supply company
- Energy-focused sponsor – $285 million secured revolving credit facility in connection with the acquisition of oil and gas assets located in the Western Anadarko Basin
- Privately held upstream exploration & production company – $5 billion senior secured term loan B facility
* Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- University of Virginia - 2014 Juris Doctor
- University of Pennsylvania - 2009 Bachelor of Applied Science
- University of Pennsylvania - 2009 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- Texas Bar