Overview

Tammy is a seasoned corporate finance partner, with a depth of experience and strong commitment to clients. She has a wide-ranging practice that includes the representation of financial institutions, institutional investors, and corporate borrowers in a wide array of secured and unsecured financing transactions, such as acquisition financings, asset-based and reserve-based lending, master limited partnership (MLP) financing, multi-currency credit facilities, floor plan financing, first lien/second lien transactions, and complex debt restructuring.

Tammy routinely represents leading commercial banks in structuring and negotiating syndicated credit facilities for both public and private borrowers in a diverse range of industries, such as upstream and midstream energy and oil field services, technology, construction, automotive, death care, financial products and services, and real estate. She also has extensive experience in derivative transactions, regularly advising clients on a broad spectrum of derivative products, including interest rate and commodity swaps, caps, options, and other hedging arrangements.

Tammy regularly partners with business executives and their teams to navigate complex transactions under intense deadlines. She is distinguished by her responsiveness and accessibility to clients. Tammy is adept at maximizing efficiencies and seamlessly leveraging a network of professionals with a goal of delivering optimal results. Clients value her deep understanding of their business objectives, which enables her to provide pragmatic guidance and steer them through legal and commercial challenges, ensuring objectives are met on schedule.

Tammy has served as the firm’s Houston office Managing Partner since 2018. She also serves as an ex officio member of the firm's Executive Committee and as a member of the firm’s Opinion Committee. She previously served as the firmwide hiring partner and was a member of numerous firm committees, including the Policy Committee, Associates Committee, Business Intake Committee, Diversity Committee, Partners Committee, and Women’s Initiative Team.

Experience

Tammy’s recent representative experience includes:

  • Represented the world’s largest retailer in connection with $16 billion of credit facilities.
  • Represented an offshore exploration and production company in connection with its $350 million 144A offering and a $50 million first lien revolving line of credit. Additionally advised on the intercreditor agreement concerning the relationship between the notes offering and the first lien revolving line of credit and on security matters related to a second lien secured notes offering.
  • Represented an offshore exploration and production company in connection with $135 million of financings, including a credit facility, a revolving line of credit, and an affiliate’s revolving credit facility.
  • Represented a midstream company in connection with approximately $1.1 billion of financings, including revolving lines of credit and term loans.
  • Represented the administrative agent in connection with a $900 million upsized credit facility for one of the largest death care companies in the United States.
  • Represented the administrative agent in connection with a $1 billion revolving credit facility to a leading building and service provider for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing building systems.
  • Represented a global insurance and reinsurance platform in connection with a cross-boarder term loan and revolving loan.
  • Represented an upstream oil and gas company in connection with a $1.3 billion revolving line of credit.
  • Represented an offshore marine company in its revolving credit facility.
  • Represented an infrastructure-focused private equity firm in its $3.6 billion acquisition of assets.
  • Represented the secured creditor and DIP lender in connection with prepackaged bankruptcy filing of smart glass manufacturer.
  • Represented a dual-listed (NYSE/TSX) retail energy provider as US counsel in connection with its US$250 million (approximately C$325 million equivalent) non-revolving multi-draw senior unsecured term loan facility. In connection with the loan, the issuer issued an aggregate of 7,462,561 warrants to the lenders, with each warrant being exercisable for one common share of the issuer.
  • Represented the administrative agent in a $300 million revolving credit facility to holding company for the largest publicly traded partnership and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products, and petrochemicals.
  • Represented one of the largest, privately-held exploration and production companies in the United States in a $1.4 billion reserve based credit facility.
  • Represented the administrative agent in a $550 million secured revolving credit facility for a privately-held company comprised of the nation's most esteemed funeral homes, cemeteries, crematories, and permanent memorialization properties.
  • Represented a provider of compression services and equipment for natural gas and oil production, gathering, transportation, processing, and storage in a $315 million asset based credit facility.
  • Represented a publicly-traded, geographically diversified oil and gas services company, focused on completion fluids and associated products and services, water management, frac flow back, production well testing, offshore rig cooling, compression services and equipment, and selected offshore services in a $250 million secured credit facility.   
  • Represented a CMBS servicer in mortgage loan defeasances totaling in excess of $200 million.
  • Represented one of the world’s largest producers of natural soda ash in a $225 million unsecured credit facility.
  • Represented the owner of one of the largest interstate pipeline systems in the country in a $150 million secured credit facility.
  • Represented offshore drilling company in a $1 billion first lien revolving credit facility and a $480 million second lien term loan facility.
  • Represented a privately-held acquisition, exploration and production company in a $1.025 billion high yield notes facility and a $1.5 billion reserve based credit facility.

Accolades

Honors & Recognitions

  • Recognized in Top 500 Leading US Energy Lawyers, Lawdragon (2025)
  • Recognized as a 2022 HBJ Women Who Mean Business honoree, Houston Business Journal (2022)
  • Named one of the 2021 Top Women Lawyers, The Texas Diversity Council (2021)
  • One of Houston's 50 Most Influential Women of 2018,” Houston Woman Magazine (2019)
  • Named one of the "Houston Top 50 Women in Law," The National Diversity Council (2017)
  • Named a Top Lawyer in Houston, Houstonia Magazine (2016)

Affiliations

Professional

  • Greater Houston Partnership, Board of Directors, 2021
  • NALP, National Advisory Board Member
  • Houston Bar Association
  • South Texas College of Law Alumni Association, Board of Directors

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Education

JD, South Texas College of Law, cum laude, Order of the Lytae, 1992

BBA, Lamar University, magna cum laude, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Iota Epsilon, 1990

Admissions

Texas

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