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Edโ€™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 facility transactions, senior and subordinated debt facilities, debt restructurings and workouts, and remedy enforcement matters. This experience also includes working with clients during financial downturns to negotiate and document loan modification agreements and forbearance agreements and engage in collateral collection activities. Ed also assists clients with security/collateral issues under the Uniform Commercial Code and general corporate matters consisting of acquisitions, governance, and compliance.

Ed is an adjunct legal writing professor at The University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law and 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 Universityย 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 Groupย 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

Texas Super Lawyer, 2023

D Magazine, Best Lawyers, 2021

The Best Lawyers in Americaยฎ, Banking and Finance Law, 2023-2024; Corporate Law, 2022-2024; Real Estate Law, 2023-2024

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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