Jackson Walker L.L.P. :: Monica L. Pace
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Practice Areas
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Biography
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Monica L. Pace focuses her practice primarily on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), business entity formation and governance, contract negotiations, general corporate work, and energy lending transactions.
As part of Ms. Pace's M&A practice, she has represented several small to mid-sized clients in asset and entity sales, both on the purchasing side and the selling side, and is also experienced in mergers and other investment-related transactions. Among her general corporate undertakings, she has managed the formation of over 50 new business entities, has drafted numerous partnership agreements, limited liability company agreements, bylaws, stockholders agreements, and other governing documents for new entities. She has also assisted clients with entity dissolutions. Related, she has extensive experience in advising clients and other attorneys regarding Texas' adoption of the Texas Business Organizations Code and governance matters arising under the Code.
Ms. Pace's finance practice consists of representation of regional and national banks in lending transactions ranging in value from $250 thousand to $65 million and secured primarily by oil and gas properties. She has represented banks in both single-lender transactions and those acting as agents for multiple lenders in agented credit facilities. As part of this practice, Ms. Pace is experienced in drafting and negotiating loan agreements, intercreditor agreements, subordination agreements, guaranties, mortgages, and other security documents and in advising clients with respect to perfection and usury matters.
While in law school, Ms. Pace served as an intern for Senior District Judge Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr. with the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, for the Honorable Robert Wedemeyer with the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Nashville Metropolitan Public Defender. She received multiple Scholastic Excellence Awards for achievements in her business law curriculum. As an undergraduate, she studied comparative law and criminology abroad at Magdalen College of Oxford University.
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Representative Matters
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Represented purchaser of credit card processing-related assets
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Represented purchaser of a Dallas-based wine business
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Represented seller of a Texas-based manufacturing and distribution company
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Represented sellers of a Dallas-based company that provided accounting, human resources, information technology, and other administrative services to health care companies
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Represented two health care services companies in connection with formation of joint ventures in multiple states
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Represented issuer in connection with a private placement of up to $2 million worth of equity interests
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Represented client with investment in entertainment services company
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Represented oil and gas company in connection with acquisition of new properties, consolidation of existing properties and subsidiaries, and simultaneous third party investment in resulting entity
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Formed over 50 new entities, including corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies; coordinated foreign qualifications for business entities; and drafted governing agreements for such entities
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Represented national bank, acting as lead administrative agent and a lender in $65 million agented revolving credit facility secured by oil and gas properties
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Represented national banks in over a dozen other revolving credit facilities and term loans ranging in value from $250 thousand to $13.5 million secured by various forms of collateral including oil and gas properties, other real property, and personal property
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Represented regional bank in multiple revolving credit facilities of up to $10 million
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Negotiated ISDA Master Agreements with swap counterparties
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Drafted and negotiated intercreditor agreements among lenders and swap counterparties
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Memberships
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Ms. Pace is a member of the American Bar Association, State Bar of Texas, and Dallas Bar Association.
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Admitted
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Education
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B.B.A., summa cum laude, Stetson University (FL)
J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School
- Articles Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law and Practice (n/k/a Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law)
Ms. Pace studied abroad at Magdalen College of Oxford University.
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Publications & Speaking Engagements
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Discussion Panel Speaker, "Thrill of the Practice: Corporate Law," Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law (February 21, 2008)
"How Real Estate Deals Are Affected by the Texas Business Organization Code," Texas Advanced Paralegal Seminar, Paralegal Division of the State Bar of Texas (September 22, 2006
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