Catherine Ozdogan, a partner in the Houston office of Latham & Watkins and former Chair of the firm’s Houston Finance Department, represents financial institutions and corporate borrowers in connection with a wide variety of commercial lending transactions in the oil and gas exploration and production, midstream, and service-related sectors.

Catherine has particular knowledge in:

  • Reserve-based lending transactions
  • Sponsor-backed underwritten acquisition financings
  • Asset-based loans
  • First and second lien financings
  • Debt restructurings
  • Derivative arrangements

Catherine has been recognized:

  • As one of the leading Banking and Finance lawyers in Texas in Chambers USA Guide America’s Leading Business Lawyers 2008-2022
  • For her work in Banking & Finance in The Best Lawyers in America 2012-2024 (Best Lawyers is by BL Rankings)
  • For her work in Finance & Bank Lending by The Legal 500 US 2009-2013
  • For her work in Project Finance in The Legal 500 US 2010 and 2011

Catherine's representative finance transactions include advising:

  • Great Western Petroleum, LLC in connection with a US$600 million senior secured reserve based revolving credit facility agented by MUFG Union Bank, N.A.
  • UGI Energy Services, LLC in connection with an underwritten US$700 million senior secured term loan facility, the proceeds of which were used to finance the acquisition of Columbia Midstream Group, LLC
  • BJ Services LLC in connection with a US$200 million senior secured term loan facility secured by machinery and equipment
  • UGI Corporation in connection with US$850 million senior unsecured revolving credit and term loan facilities, the proceeds of which were used to finance the acquisition of a portion of the issued and outstanding public common units of AmeriGas Partners, L.P. and to finance the acquisition of Columbia Midstream Group, LLC
  • UGI Corporation, the global natural gas distribution company, in connection with its €800 million syndicated revolving credit and term loan facilities, in order to refinance its existing capital structure
  • EQM Midstream Partners, LP in a US$1.4 billion senior unsecured term loan facility agented by Toronto-Dominion (Texas) LLC
  • Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. in connection with a US$111.8 million second lien term loan facility secured on US flagged offshore service vessels, the proceeds of which were used to repurchase and/or exchanged for the company’s outstanding convertible notes
  • MUFG Union Bank, N.A. in a US$3 billion senior secured reserve based revolving credit facility for Chesapeake Energy Corporation
  • A Morgan Stanley Investment Management portfolio company in an underwritten US$950 million senior secured super-priority revolver and term loan credit facilities agented by Jefferies Finance LLC, the proceeds of which were used to acquire Brazos Midstream
  • Bruin E&P Partners, LLC, an ArcLight Capital Partners portfolio company, in a US$1.5 billion senior secured first lien reserve based revolving credit facility agented by Bank of Montreal
  • Southwestern Energy Company in a US$2 billion senior secured reserve based credit facility agented by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
  • Centennial Resource Production, LLC in a US$1.5 billion senior secured reserved based revolving credit facility agented by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Bar Qualification

  • New York
  • Texas

Education

  • JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 1994
  • BA, Rice University, 1991