Brandon Barton is a Partner in the Firm’s Banking and Credit practice. Based in Houston, he advises private equity and infrastructure sponsors, banks, direct lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of complex corporate finance transactions, as well as in connection with workout and restructuring situations, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure industries.
Brandon regularly advises clients in connection with backleverage financings, bank and bridge loan financings, acquisition financings, project and energy finance transactions, working capital and asset-based facilities, liability management, and direct-lending transactions.
Brandon’s recent clients have included BlackRock, Blackstone, Citi, EIG, JPMorgan, KKR, PGIM, PNC, TD, Wells Fargo and financing parties of NextEra Energy.
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Work Highlights
- JPMorgan, as lead arranger, in connection with $2.349 billion of debt financing for Crucible Metals, LLC, a subsidiary of Korea Zinc Company, Ltd, in support of a $7.4 billion advanced critical minerals and metals project in Tennessee, as part of JPMorgan’s $1.5 trillion Security and Resilience Initiative
- KKR in connection with financing matters related to its acquisition, with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, of a 45% equity interest in Sempra Infrastructure Partners, as part of a broader $31.7 billion transaction upon the closing of which a KKR-led consortium will become the majority owner of Sempra Infrastructure Partners
- JPMorgan, as lead arranger and administrative agent, in connection with VoltaGrid LLC’s $3.0 billion asset-based revolving credit facility and a related $1.2 billion bridge credit facility provided by JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs
- KKR and PSP Investments in connection with financing matters related to their $2.82 billion acquisition of a 19.9% interest in American Electric Power’s Ohio and Indiana & Michigan transmission companies
- Financing parties in connection with over $9 billion of financings of renewable power and transmission assets for subsidiaries of NextEra Energy
Education
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UCLA School of Law, 2016 J.D.
Order of the Coif; Articles Editor, UCLA Law Review
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UCLA, 2009 B.A.
magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
Admissions
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Texas 2019
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California 2016
Brandon Barton is a Partner in the Firm’s Banking and Credit practice. Based in Houston, he advises private equity and infrastructure sponsors, banks, direct lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of complex corporate finance transactions, as well as in connection with workout and restructuring situations, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure industries.
Brandon regularly advises clients in connection with backleverage financings, bank and bridge loan financings, acquisition financings, project and energy finance transactions, working capital and asset-based facilities, liability management, and direct-lending transactions.
Brandon’s recent clients have included BlackRock, Blackstone, Citi, EIG, JPMorgan, KKR, PGIM, PNC, TD, Wells Fargo and financing parties of NextEra Energy.
Brandon's representative transactions include:
- JPMorgan, as lead arranger, in connection with $2.349 billion of debt financing for Crucible Metals, LLC, a subsidiary of Korea Zinc Company, Ltd, in support of a $7.4 billion advanced critical minerals and metals project in Tennessee, as part of JPMorgan’s $1.5 trillion Security and Resilience Initiative
- KKR in connection with financing matters related to its acquisition, with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, of a 45% equity interest in Sempra Infrastructure Partners, as part of a broader $31.7 billion transaction upon the closing of which a KKR-led consortium will become the majority owner of Sempra Infrastructure Partners
- JPMorgan, as lead arranger and administrative agent, in connection with VoltaGrid LLC’s $3.0 billion asset-based revolving credit facility and a related $1.2 billion bridge credit facility provided by JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs
- Wells Fargo and other arrangers in connection with Weatherford International plc’s upsized $1.15 billion revolving credit facility
- KKR and PSP Investments in connection with financing matters related to their $2.82 billion acquisition of a 19.9% interest in American Electric Power’s Ohio and Indiana & Michigan transmission companies
- KKR in connection with financing matters related to its acquisition of The Parking Spot, the nation’s leading owner and operator of near-airport parking properties, from an affiliate of Green Courte Partners, LLC, a private equity real estate investment firm
- KKR in connection with financing matters related to its acquisition of an indirect minority interest in Labrador Island Link, a 1,100 km high voltage transmission line that delivers renewable energy to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and beyond, from Emera Inc.
- KKR in the financing of its acquisition of an indirect, non-controlling interest in the Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project in Jefferson County, Texas from Sempra Infrastructure
- Financing parties in connection with over $9 billion of financings of renewable power and transmission assets for subsidiaries of NextEra Energy
- JPMorgan and MUFG, as administrative agent and joint lead arrangers, in connection with $515 million credit facilities for The Energy & Minerals Group, supporting a $1.1 billion continuation vehicle and related infrastructure investments
- JPMorgan, as lead arranger and administrative agent, in the refinancing of TechnipFMC plc’s $1.25 billion senior secured multicurrency revolving credit facility
- Group 1 Automotive, Inc. in connection with refinancing and upsize of its $3.5 billion revolving credit facility
- Prepetition ABL agent and DIP agent in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Conn’s, Inc., a retailer of home goods with stores across 15 states
- Aqua America, Inc. (n/k/a Essential Utilities, Inc.) in a $700 million revolving credit facility used in connection with Aqua America’s acquisition of Peoples Natural Gas and for working capital and general corporate purposes
- Administrative agent in Vencer Energy, LLC’s reserve-based $800 million financing used, in part, to finance Vencer’s previously announced acquisition of Midland Basin assets from Hunt Oil Company
- Underwriters in connection with Excelerate Energy’s $202.46 million common stock offering and $800 million senior notes offering, as well as commitments for up to an $850 million bridge loan facility