King & Spalding adds Burke, Berry, Cagle to energy finance team

By Marisa Wong

Morgantown, W.Va., June 26 – King & Spalding announced that Carol Burke, Susan Berry and Kimberlee Cagle have joined the firm as partners in the firm’s corporate, finance and investments practice group in its Houston office to advise on a broad range of complex finance matters, including oil and gas financings, project financings, real estate acquisition, development financings and corporate matters.

All three new partners join King & Spalding from Reed Smith.

Burke has over 30 years of experience leading complex domestic and international corporate finance, energy and real estate transactions, according to a press release. Her work includes advising clients on project finance, reserve-based lending facilities, structured finance, asset-backed securitizations, off-balance sheet financing vehicles, leveraged lease transactions, taxable and tax-exempt bond transactions and sale/leaseback facilities.

Berry’s practice focuses on commercial financing and other business transactions with an emphasis on the energy sector, the release noted. She advises financial institutions and corporate borrowers on a variety of complex lending matters, including reserve-based loans to oil and gas companies, asset-based loans involving diverse collateral, syndicated facilities with multiple lien priorities, project finance transactions, unsecured loans and leveraged acquisitions. She also has experience advising clients on loan restructurings and workouts, having been in-house counsel to the special assets energy division of a major U.S. bank.

Cagle represents financial institutions and borrowers in financing transactions with a focus on the energy industry, the release said. Her experience includes advising on reserve-based financings for oil and gas exploration and production companies, revolving and term financings for midstream, downstream and energy service companies, leveraged acquisitions, cross-border project finance transactions and first- and second-lien credit facilities. She also has experience in financing various infrastructure projects, including cross-border, interstate and intrastate pipelines, gas storage facilities, refineries and power plants.

King & Spalding is a law firm based in Atlanta.

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