Practice Expertise

  • Banking and Finance
  • Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ ...
  • Energy
  • Chemicals, Petrochemicals and Refining

Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Finance
  • Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ ...
  • Chemicals, Petrochemicals and Refining
  • Energy
  • Energy Services
  • Financial Services
  • Health Care
  • Health Care and Life Sciences
  • Natural Gas
  • Oil, Gas and LNG
  • Pipeline
  • Project Finance and Development
  • View More

Profile

Gail has extensive experience in a variety of corporate transactions with a particular emphasis on corporate finance. Gail's practice has included syndicated and single-lender loan and letter of credit facilities, debt restructures, project financings, leveraged and synthetic lease transactions, structured financings, asset securitizations, cross-border and multi-currency financings, taxable and tax-exempt public debt issuances, private placements, commercial paper programs, collateralized mortgage obligations, venture capital investments and lender liability counseling.

Gail has represented a wide range of participants in these matters, including national, state and foreign banking institutions, insurance companies, trustees, asset-based and other lending institutions, underwriters, venture capital investors, securities issuers, borrowers and other corporate clients. A significant portion of her practice has also been devoted to transactions related to the health care industry. Gail also has extensive experience in handling secured transactions, including under both Articles 8 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Gail has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America for each year since 1995, as published by Woodward/White Publications. Among her professional honors, she has been elected a Fellow of The American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.

Bar Admissions

    Education
    JD, Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, 1977

    PhD, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, National Science Foundation Fellow, 1974

    BS, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, valedictorian, 1969

    Areas of Practice

    • Banking and Finance
    • Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights
    • Chemicals, Petrochemicals and Refining
    • Energy
    • Energy Services
    • Financial Services
    • Health Care
    • Health Care and Life Sciences
    • Natural Gas
    • Oil, Gas and LNG
    • Pipeline
    • Project Finance and Development

    Professional Career



    Articles

    • Legal Opinions in Business Transactions: Statement on Entity Status, Power and Authority Opinions Regarding Pre-Code Texas Entities and Pre-Code Registered Foreign Entities under the Texas Business Organizations Code,” Supplement No. 5 to the Report of the Legal Opinions Committee, Texas Journal of Business Law
    • Rethinking the Opinion Giver of the Remedies Opinion, The Business Lawyer of the American Bar Association
    • Legal Opinions in Business Transactions," Supplement No. 6 to the Report of the Legal Opinions Committee, Texas Journal of Business Law
    • Legal Opinions—Who May Rely? The Business Lawyer of the American Bar Association
    • Working Group on Legal Opinions Fall and Spring Seminar Handbooks
    • Legal Opinions in Business Transactions: Statement on Changes to the Procedure for Good Standing Certificates Issued by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Supplement No. 6 to the Report of the Legal Opinions Committee, Texas Journal of Business Law 
    • Legal Opinion Risk Seminar Handbook
    • Fuld @ 40: A Group Project on Common Qualifications to a Remedies Opinion in U.S. Commercial Loan Transactions, The Business Lawyer of the American Bar Association
    • Common Qualifications to a Remedies Opinion in U.S. Commercial Loan Transactions, The Business Lawyer of the American Bar Association
    • “Legal Opinions in Business Transactions: Statement on ABA Principles and Guidelines,” Supplement No. 4 to the Report of the Legal Opinions Committee, Texas Journal of Business Law
    • Legal Opinions in Business Transactions," Supplement No. 5 to the Report of the Legal Opinions Committee, Texas Journal of Business Law
    • AK Migration: Amendments to Chapter 9 of the Texas UCC
    • AK Migration: Legal Opinions on Usury," Supplement No. 1 to the Report of the Legal Opinions Committee, Co-Author,
    • AK Migration: Legal Opinions as to Securities and Other Investment Property," Supplement No. 2 to the Report of the Legal Opinions Committee, Co-Author,
    • AK Migration: Statement on Legal Opinions Regarding Indemnification and Exculpation Provisions Under Texas Law," Co-Author,
    • AK Migration: The Protection of Individual Choice: A Consistent Understanding of Religion Under the First Amendment" (co-authored)
    • AK Migration: Texas Legislature Amends Statute on Choice of Law

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