Brandan Still is a Partner in the Houston office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Brandan regularly represents lenders and borrowers in banking and credit transactions spanning multiple industries. His work includes advising some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated financial institutions including JPMorgan Chase, Mizuho Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Capital One, as well as advising a host of companies in and adjacent to the energy sector, such as ARM Energy Holdings, Civeo Corporation, Oil States International and Abaco Energy Technologies. His experience ranges across financing products and situations including asset-based lending, reserve-based financings, leveraged and acquisition finance, bridge loans, refinancings, restructuring and rescue financings, as well as debtor-in-possession and exit loans. Brandan has advised on transactions in a number of industries including retail, manufacturing, oil and gas exploration and production, compression, oilfield services and utilities. He also has significant experience advising hedge providers and counterparties in connection with commodity hedging transactions.
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Work Highlights
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- Royal Bank of Canada, PNC and Mizuho as joint lead arrangers and initial lenders in connection with commitments to provide to EQT a $1.25 billion unsecured bridge loan facility and a $1.25 billion unsecured term loan facility in connection with the acquisitions of THQ Appalachia I Midco, LLC and THQ-XcL Holdings I Midco, LLC
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent under a $90 million asset-based revolving loan facility for Myriad Genetics.
- Asset Risk Management, as borrower, in connection with its $110 million inaugural commodity finance borrowing base facility with Rabobank.
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent and collateral agent, in connection with Conn’s, Inc.’s $650 million asset-based revolving credit facility
- Lead arrangers in a $1.6 billion senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility for USA Compression in an acquisition-related financing and subsequent financings for USA Compression
- JPMorgan, as ABL administrative agent, in committed financing for Rent-a-Center’s acquisition of Acima, including a new $875 million senior secured term loan credit facility and $550 million ABL facility
- JPMorgan, as ABL and Term Loan Administrative Agent in connection with Nordam’s exit financing from its Chapter 11 cases.
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent to Clearwater Paper Corporation in connection with its asset-based credit facility and subsequent amendment and extension of its ABL facility
- Lead Arrangers and Administrative Agents for financings totaling over $5 billion for Centerpoint Energy and its subsidiaries.
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent, in connection with Nine Energy’s asset-based revolving lending facility.
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent in connection with KLX Energy Services’ asset-based lending facility.
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent, in connection with an RBL facility for Citizen Energy’s $1 billion facility acquisition of Red Bluff Resources and Bricktown Energy
- Oil States International, Inc. in connection with the amendment and restatement of its credit agreement contemporaneously with the closing of its private offering of $200 million principal amount of 1.50% convertible senior notes
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent for the ABL lenders, in Superior Energy Services’ Chapter 11 cases and its subsequent asset-based revolving exit financing
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent, in connection with Hi-Crush Inc.’s Chapter 11 restructuring, including in connection with a $25 million senior secured DIP ABL credit agreement and its exit financing.
- Civeo Corporation in connection with $1.425 billion U.S. credit facilities, including a $650 million revolver and a $775 million term loan, related to its spin-off from Oil States International, as well as Oil States International in connection with a $600 million revolving credit facility
- Civeo Corporation in its redomestication in Canada and the related financing arrangements including amendments to its existing financing and $450 million in new Canadian Revolving and Term Loans
- JPMorgan, as lender and administrative agent, in California Resources Corporation’s Chapter 11 cases, include in connection with a $483 million senior secured superpriority DIP credit facility
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent for Ascent Resources Utica Holdings, LLC’s $2 billion reserve-based revolving credit facility
- The lead arrangers in connection with a senior secured revolving reserve-based credit facility for SandRidge Energy, with an initial borrowing base of $500 million and a maximum facility size of $1 billion
- A private-equity portfolio company in connection with a senior secured revolving reserve-based credit facility and second lien term loan in order to finance its acquisition of assets in the Marcellus and Utica shale basins
- WindMW GmbH, a Blackstone portfolio company, in a €978 million nine-tranche U.S. dollar and euro-denominated project bond offering
Accolades
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Texas Lawyer, "On the Rise" (2021)
Education
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Harvard University, 2009 J.D.
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Lamar University, 2006 B.B.A.
summa cum laude
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University College Cork, Ireland, 2005 Diploma of Common Law
Admissions
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Texas 2014
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New York 2010
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Massachusetts 2009
Brandan Still is a Partner in the Houston office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Brandan regularly represents lenders and borrowers in banking and credit transactions spanning multiple industries. His work includes advising some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated financial institutions including JPMorgan Chase, Mizuho Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Capital One, as well as advising a host of companies in and adjacent to the energy sector, such as ARM Energy Holdings, Civeo Corporation, Oil States International and Abaco Energy Technologies. His experience ranges across financing products and situations including asset-based lending, reserve-based financings, leveraged and acquisition finance, bridge loans, refinancings, restructuring and rescue financings, as well as debtor-in-possession and exit loans. Brandan has advised on transactions in a number of industries including retail, manufacturing, oil and gas exploration and production, compression, oilfield services and utilities. He also has significant experience advising hedge providers and counterparties in connection with commodity hedging transactions.
Brandan was recognized by Texas Lawyer among the lawyers “On The Rise” as part of the Texas Legal Excellence Awards for 2021.
Transactions on which Brandan has worked include the representation of:
- Royal Bank of Canada, PNC and Mizuho as joint lead arrangers and initial lenders in connection with commitments to provide to EQT a $1.25 billion unsecured bridge loan facility and a $1.25 billion unsecured term loan facility in connection with the acquisitions of THQ Appalachia I Midco, LLC and THQ-XcL Holdings I Midco, LLC
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent under a $90 million asset-based revolving loan facility for Myriad Genetics.
- Asset Risk Management, as borrower, in connection with its $110 million inaugural commodity finance borrowing base facility with Rabobank.
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent and collateral agent, in connection with Conn’s, Inc.’s $650 million asset-based revolving credit facility
- Lead arrangers in a $1.6 billion senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility for USA Compression in an acquisition-related financing and subsequent financings for USA Compression
- JPMorgan, as ABL administrative agent, in committed financing for Rent-a-Center’s acquisition of Acima, including a new $875 million senior secured term loan credit facility and $550 million ABL facility
- JPMorgan, as ABL and Term Loan Administrative Agent in connection with Nordam’s exit financing from its Chapter 11 cases.
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent to Clearwater Paper Corporation in connection with its asset-based credit facility and subsequent amendment and extension of its ABL facility
- Lead Arrangers and Administrative Agents for financings totaling over $5 billion for Centerpoint Energy and its subsidiaries.
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent, in connection with Nine Energy’s asset-based revolving lending facility.
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent in connection with KLX Energy Services’ asset-based lending facility.
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent, in connection with an RBL facility for Citizen Energy’s $1 billion facility acquisition of Red Bluff Resources and Bricktown Energy
- Oil States International, Inc. in connection with the amendment and restatement of its credit agreement contemporaneously with the closing of its private offering of $200 million principal amount of 1.50% convertible senior notes
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent for the ABL lenders, in Superior Energy Services’ Chapter 11 cases and its subsequent asset-based revolving exit financing
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent, in connection with Hi-Crush Inc.’s Chapter 11 restructuring, including in connection with a $25 million senior secured DIP ABL credit agreement and its exit financing.
- Civeo Corporation in connection with $1.425 billion U.S. credit facilities, including a $650 million revolver and a $775 million term loan, related to its spin-off from Oil States International, as well as Oil States International in connection with a $600 million revolving credit facility
- Civeo Corporation in its redomestication in Canada and the related financing arrangements including amendments to its existing financing and $450 million in new Canadian Revolving and Term Loans
- JPMorgan, as lender and administrative agent, in California Resources Corporation’s Chapter 11 cases, include in connection with a $483 million senior secured superpriority DIP credit facility
- JPMorgan, as administrative agent for Ascent Resources Utica Holdings, LLC’s $2 billion reserve-based revolving credit facility
- The lead arrangers in connection with a senior secured revolving reserve-based credit facility for SandRidge Energy, with an initial borrowing base of $500 million and a maximum facility size of $1 billion
- A private-equity portfolio company in connection with a senior secured revolving reserve-based credit facility and second lien term loan in order to finance its acquisition of assets in the Marcellus and Utica shale basins
- WindMW GmbH, a Blackstone portfolio company, in a €978 million nine-tranche U.S. dollar and euro-denominated project bond offering
Brandan received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2009 and a B.B.A. in Management and a B.B.A. in Economics each from Lamar University, summa cum laude, in 2006. He received a Diploma of Common Law from University College Cork, Ireland in 2005. Brandan is admitted to practice in Texas, New York and Massachusetts.