Arturo Cavazos

Corporate Finance

• Represented BBVA Compass Bank, as lender, in connection with $45 million revolving loan and $5.3 million term loan credit facility for building materials supply company borrower.
• Represented Texas Capital Bank, N.A., as lender, in connection with amendment and restatement of multiple credit facilities secured by commercial real estate for group of affiliated borrowers.
• Represented Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, in connection with $725 million revolving credit facility to Memorial Resource Development Corp.
• Represented oil and gas exploration and production company, as borrower, in connection with $500 million revolving credit facility and $125 million second lien term loan facility.
• Represented Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, in connection with distressed workout of $200 million revolving credit facility to Emerald Oil, Inc., as borrower, and subsequent bankruptcy financing.
• Represented major institutional lender, as administrative agent, in connection with $75 million second lien term loan facility to oil and gas exploration and production company.

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Represented a public mobile advertising solutions provider in its transformative acquisitions of three international mobile advertising companies valued in excess of $1 billion.
• Represented Abraxas Petroleum Corporation in connection with the exchange of $3.2 million in cash, 2 million shares of Abraxas Petroleum Corporation stock and certain surface estate real estate for certain oil & gas assets from Blackbeard Resources, LLC.
• Represented matchmaking company with operations in Austin and San Antonio, as seller, in connection with the purchase of substantially all of its assets by Dallas-based matchmaking company, as buyer.
• Represented regional owner-franchisee of national fast food chain, as seller, in connection with the purchase of substantially all of the equity in its operating company.

Financial Derivatives

• Represented oil and gas exploration and production company, as a counterparty, in connection with nine ISDA Master Agreements and schedules, each with a major institutional swap dealer.
• Represented multinational automatic teller machine operator, as a counterparty, in connection with four ISDA Master Agreements and schedules, each with a major institutional swap dealer.

Securities Transactions

• Represented technology startup, as issuer, in connection with $2 million second-round secured notes offering.
• Represented fund, as purchaser, in connection with the purchase of $5 million notes from technology startup, as issuer.

Intellectual Property

• Represented microwave radiation pathogen sterilization company, as licensee, in connection with the licensing of its technology to multinational baked goods company.

• Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (Woodward/White Inc.)
  • Banking and Finance Law, 2022-2023
  • Corporate Law, 2022-2023
• Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation – Corporate, Finance, 2023
• “Best S.A. Lawyers” List, San Antonio Scene, 2018-2023
  • Banking
  • Business & Corporate
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
• “Rising Star Lawyers” List, San Antonio Scene, 2018, 2020-2022
  • Business & Corporate
  • Securities and Corporate Finance

• San Antonio Bar Association
• Columbia Law School, Reunion Committee Co-chair
• U.S. Green Building Council, LEED Accredited Professional (Building Design and Construction)
• Advisory Board Member, Justice Technology Association