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“Amanda is a fierce advocate who handles client business with the personal touch of a longtime friend.”

— Kenneth R. Batson, III, Senior Vice President, Amegy Bank

Jackson Walker
Amanda Shaw-Castro

Amanda L. Shaw-Castro

Partner, Houston
713-752-4528
ashaw@jw.com
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Areas of Focus Practice Experience Recognition & Accolades Publications & Speeches Community Involvement Client Results Areas of Focus

Practice Areas

  • Energy
  • Finance & Banking

Experience

  • Energy Finance
  • Lodging & Accommodations Real Estate
  • Real Estate Portfolio Transactions | Large Scale
  • Upstream Oil & Gas

Biography

Amanda Shaw-Castro has extensive experience assisting clients with a broad range of commercial transactional matters. Amanda’s real estate practice includes representation of multinational private and public companies in the acquisition of hotel, multi-family, retail, office, mixed-use industrial and life science portfolio transactions. Her finance practice includes representation of both borrowers and lenders in the negotiation, structuring, and documenting of various commercial finance transactions.

Amanda assists a number of national banks with all aspects of energy based lending, including ongoing due diligence in connection with revolving lines of credit and letter of credit facilities. Amanda regularly assists private and national banks restructure oil and gas loans with the goal of maximizing recovery.

Education

B.S., summa cum laude, Lamar University

J.D., summa cum laude, South Texas College of Law Houston

Bar Admissions

Texas, 2009

Areas of Focus Practice Experience Recognition & Accolades Publications & Speeches Community Involvement Client Results Areas of Focus
Real Estate
  • Portfolio Acquisitions
  • National Title and Survey Diligence
  • Efficient Issue Resolution
  • Purchase and Sale Agreements
  • Local Counsel
Finance
  • Commercial Loans
  • Syndications and Participations
  • Legal Opinions
  • Debt Restructuring
  • Loan Workouts
  • Forbearance Agreements
Energy
  • Reserve Based Energy Lending
  • Syndicated Credit Facilities
  • Oil and Gas Title Diligence
  • Maximizing Recovery
  • Representation of a multinational private equity company in an 8.2 billion dollar acquisition of more than 140 life science properties located across 14 states, with specific emphasis on diligence analysis and curative action, including all aspects of title, survey, and zoning matters.
  • Representation of a multinational company in a 4.5 billion dollar acquisition and financing of over 295 industrial assets located across 18 states in the U.S., with specific emphasis on all aspects of title, survey, and zoning matters and role as local counsel in connection with financing of 31 properties located in Texas.
  • Representation of a multinational private equity company in a multi-million dollar acquisition and finance of several luxury hotels located across 4 states, with specific emphasis on diligence analysis and curative action, including all aspects of title, survey, and zoning matters.
  • Representation of an investment bank as agent and lender in connection with a 50 million dollar advancing credit facility secured by oil and gas assets located in California and Utah.
  • “Texas Rising Star,” Super Lawyers – Rising Stars by Thomson Reuters, 2018-2019
  • Author, “Op-Ed: Banks With Diversified Portfolios Have Potential to Survive,” Houston Business Journal (November 2020) (Subscription required)
  • Speaker, “Legal Lessons Learned from the 2020 Oil Crisis,” Jackson Walker webinar (June 2020)
  • State Bar of Texas
    • Real Estate Law Section
    • Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law Section
  • Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
  • Houston Bar Association
    • Minority Opportunities in the Legal Profession Committee, Past Member
  • United Way of Greater Houston, Young Leader
  • Association of Women Attorneys, Houston Chapter
  • Women’s Energy Network, Houston Chapter
Jackson Walker Advises Whataburger in Sale of Majority Interest to BDT Capital Partners

June 14, 2019

Jackson Walker Represents Abraxas Petroleum in Public Offering and Debt Refinancing

July 3, 2014

Real Estate
  • Portfolio Acquisitions
  • National Title and Survey Diligence
  • Efficient Issue Resolution
  • Purchase and Sale Agreements
  • Local Counsel
Finance
  • Commercial Loans
  • Syndications and Participations
  • Legal Opinions
  • Debt Restructuring
  • Loan Workouts
  • Forbearance Agreements
Energy
  • Reserve Based Energy Lending
  • Syndicated Credit Facilities
  • Oil and Gas Title Diligence
  • Maximizing Recovery

Practice Experience

  • Representation of a multinational private equity company in an 8.2 billion dollar acquisition of more than 140 life science properties located across 14 states, with specific emphasis on diligence analysis and curative action, including all aspects of title, survey, and zoning matters.
  • Representation of a multinational company in a 4.5 billion dollar acquisition and financing of over 295 industrial assets located across 18 states in the U.S., with specific emphasis on all aspects of title, survey, and zoning matters and role as local counsel in connection with financing of 31 properties located in Texas.
  • Representation of a multinational private equity company in a multi-million dollar acquisition and finance of several luxury hotels located across 4 states, with specific emphasis on diligence analysis and curative action, including all aspects of title, survey, and zoning matters.
  • Representation of an investment bank as agent and lender in connection with a 50 million dollar advancing credit facility secured by oil and gas assets located in California and Utah.

Recognition & Accolades

  • “Texas Rising Star,” Super Lawyers – Rising Stars by Thomson Reuters, 2018-2019

Publications & Speeches

  • Author, “Op-Ed: Banks With Diversified Portfolios Have Potential to Survive,” Houston Business Journal (November 2020) (Subscription required)
  • Speaker, “Legal Lessons Learned from the 2020 Oil Crisis,” Jackson Walker webinar (June 2020)

Community Involvement

  • State Bar of Texas
    • Real Estate Law Section
    • Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law Section
  • Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
  • Houston Bar Association
    • Minority Opportunities in the Legal Profession Committee, Past Member
  • United Way of Greater Houston, Young Leader
  • Association of Women Attorneys, Houston Chapter
  • Women’s Energy Network, Houston Chapter

Areas of Focus

Real Estate
  • Portfolio Acquisitions
  • National Title and Survey Diligence
  • Efficient Issue Resolution
  • Purchase and Sale Agreements
  • Local Counsel
Finance
  • Commercial Loans
  • Syndications and Participations
  • Legal Opinions
  • Debt Restructuring
  • Loan Workouts
  • Forbearance Agreements
Energy
  • Reserve Based Energy Lending
  • Syndicated Credit Facilities
  • Oil and Gas Title Diligence
  • Maximizing Recovery

Practice Areas

  • Energy
  • Finance & Banking

Experience

  • Energy Finance
  • Lodging & Accommodations Real Estate
  • Real Estate Portfolio Transactions | Large Scale
  • Upstream Oil & Gas

News

  • Op-Ed: Banks With Diversified Portfolios Have Potential to Survive | Houston Business Journal (Subscription Required)
  • Banks Eye Energy Loan Sell-Off Amid Oil Downturn | Law360
  • “Legal Lessons Learned From the 2020 Oil Crisis”
  • Jackson Walker Advises Whataburger in Sale of Majority Interest to BDT Capital Partners
  • Up and Coming: 34 Jackson Walker Attorneys Named to 2019 “Super Lawyers – Rising Stars” List
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