Stephen Chan ✯ Deal Lawyer Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Managing Member/attorney negotiates and drafts legal documents for commercial, real estate, and financing transactions. Advise clients in the oil and gas production and energy service industries and in the real estate developers in urban revitalization by providing guidance on matters including (i) the preparation of a response to a U.S. Congressional.

Chicago, IL, US

Advised corporate and cross-border clients on secured and unsecured credit facilities, joint venture arrangements, trust indentures and finance and interest rate swap management tools in treasury operations, and project financing on acquisitions and divestitures of oil and gas properties and real estate portfolios. Negotiated joint venture transactions.

US

Completed a six-month project on-time and within budget. As a key member of a litigation team, I helped conduct due diligence/discovery in the successful defense of Union Oil of California (Unocal) to a U.S. Department of Interior lawsuit alleging underpayment of royalty payments based on oil, natural gas and condensate production from Outer Continental.

Conducted legal and business matters for a privately owned, large-format digital equipment seller (Xerox’s fastest growing dealership in the Western Region USA). Advised on leases, confidentiality agreements, employment and labor issues, credit finance, tax issues and corporate governance. Managed outside counsel on litigation of intellectual property.

London, England, GB

On behalf of Coral Energy Company (a/k/a Shell Power and Trading), I successfully worked off a back log of swaps, options, collars and other financially settled transactions with counterparties of various financial standing, including 55 International Swap Dealers Association (ISDA) agreements and related confirmations. I advised client on Edison Electric.

Chicago, IL, US

Developed the firm’s practice in representing corporate clients in asset based borrowings, offshore oil and gas loans, secured transactions, interest rate swaps, deposit accounts and cash management agreements, securitizations, usury laws, guarantor and surety law, subordinated debt structuring, and letters of credit.

Created a new transactional boutique law firm, with two former Andrews & Kurth LLP partners joining, in providing legal advice on corporate, finance and trust matters, including joint venture agreements, operating agreements, pipeline acquisitions, tax incremental reinvestment zones, city construction contracts. Representative clients included Shell.

Houston, TX, US

Represented lead banks and other lenders in syndicated facilities by structuring transactions which included complex financings, cross-border financings with currency exchange, workout and bankruptcy matters, leveraged buyout and acquisition financings, real estate finance, equipment leasing, bulk transfers, renegotiation of problem loan workouts.

M.B.A., Finance And International Business

J.D., Law

B.S., Petroleum Engineering