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Ed’s practice focuses primarily on structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex commercial and real estate lending transactions, as well as distressed debt refinancings and workouts. He has extensive experience representing private and financial institution lenders, borrowers, and special assets groups in syndicated and single lender loan facilities, including asset-based lending structures involving receivables, inventory, and other working-capital collateral. His work spans senior and subordinated debt facilities, debt restructurings and workouts, and remedy enforcement matters.

Ed also frequently assists clients in navigating financial downturns by negotiating and documenting loan modification and forbearance agreements and overseeing collateral collection and liquidation activities. He regularly advises on security and collateral issues under the Uniform Commercial Code and handles a range of general corporate matters, including acquisitions, governance, and compliance.

Ed is a military veteran, having served in the United States Navy and participated in Operation Desert Storm aboard the fast attack submarine, USS Pittsburgh, SSN-720 as a “nuke” and Navy scuba diver.

Other Info About Ed

Experience

Legal Work Highlights

Represented administrative agent in a $100,000,000 loan to a premium finance group

Represented financial institution in $70,000,000 of real estate and commercial credit facilities of various types

Represented administrative agent in a $65,000,000 loan for the construction of medical facilities

Represented financial institution in the workout of $17,000,000 of distressed construction loan debt

Represented financial institution in connection with a $100,000,000 syndicated acquisition loan

Represented private lender in connection with a $15,175,000 construction loan

Represented financial institution in a $30,000,000 loan to a heavy equipment dealer

Represented financial institution in a workout of a $16,300,000 lien priority dispute

Represented private lender in connection with a $16,590,000 construction loan

Represented financial institution in a $7,500,000 loan for the construction of a gun range facility

Represented borrower in a $19,500,000 syndicated loan facility

Represented financial institution in connection with the bankruptcy of a borrower and preference litigation

Education

Law School

Oklahoma City University School of Law, J.D., 1996
summa cum laude

Undergraduate School

University of the State of New York, B.S., 1993

Navy Diving and Salvage Training Center, Scuba, Panama City, Florida, 1990

Naval Nuclear Power Group Training, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho, 1989

Naval Nuclear Power School, Orlando, Florida, 1988

Bar Memberships

Ed is licensed to practice in the following state(s):

Texas

Oklahoma

Recognition

Local & National Recognition

Selected to Texas Super Lawyers, 2023-2025

D Magazine, Best Lawyers, 2021

The Best Lawyers in America®, Banking and Finance, 2023-2026; Corporate, 2022-2026; Real Estate, 2023-2026

Professional Affiliations

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Editor in Chief, Law Review, Oklahoma City University School of Law

UNT Dallas School of Law, Adjunct Professor, Legal Writing

American Bar Association, Business Law-Banking Law Committee

Texas Bar Association

Oklahoma Bar Association, Financial Institution and Commercial Law Section

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