• Advised the directors of a privately held petroleum exploration and development company in a fiduciary duty and director liability analysis related to a cross-border restructuring with contingent liabilities.
• Advised the directors of a privately held oil and gas services company in connection with the expulsion of a company owner.
• Represented the founding partners of an electrical services company in a partnership structuring and entity formation and documentation.
• Represented a privately held energy company in negotiating a crude pipeline construction project and related agreements.
• Represented a privately held working interest owner in structuring and negotiating an earning, continuous drilling, and joint development program with a third-party operator, as well as the related capital raise for drilling operations.
• Represented a publicly traded (NYSE) independent oil and gas company in the sale to a third-party operator of plugging and abandonment obligations for shallow water leases and wells.
• Represented a privately held energy company in a joint venture financing of partner equity restructuring.
• Represented the chemicals division of a publicly traded (NYSE) multinational oil and gas company in the structuring and negotiation of a joint venture for the production of surfactants and related agreements.
• Represented a privately held energy company as the purchaser in the negotiation of acquisition documents in anticipation of an option exercise for the acquisition of crude pipeline assets.
• Represented a publicly traded (NYSE) multinational oilfield services company in the acquisition of fluid inclusion analysis technologies and related laboratory assets.
• Represented a privately held energy company in a bid to acquire multiple hundreds of fuel service stations and related fuel supply contracts as well as the structuring of the joint venture proposal for the acquisition.
• Represented a publicly traded (NYSE) multinational oil and gas company in the acquisition of a gathering system from a seller in bankruptcy.
• Represented a privately held energy company in the acquisition of crude terminal assets.
• Represented a publicly traded (NYSE) multinational oil company in the acquisition of oil and gas leases from an insolvent seller.
• Represented a privately held trucking company in a bid to acquire commercial trucking assets.
• Served as Texas local counsel to a privately held processor and distributor of steel products in the acquisition of assets from an insolvent seller.
• Represented a financial institution in the disposition of foreclosed healthcare assets.
• Represented a limited liability company member in the redemption of such member’s equity interest.
• Provide ongoing representation of a publicly traded (NYSE) multinational EPC company and its affiliated cross-border joint venture entities in foreign exchange and interest rate derivatives transactions, ISDA documentation negotiation, and regulatory compliance under the Dodd-Frank Act and EMIR.
• Provide ongoing representation of a publicly traded (NYSE) multinational oil and gas company and its affiliated cross-border joint venture entities in ISDA documentation negotiation and regulatory compliance under the Dodd-Frank Act and EMIR.
• Provide ongoing representation of a publicly traded (NASDAQ) pharmaceutical company in derivatives portfolio restructuring, ISDA documentation negotiation, regulatory compliance under the Dodd-Frank Act and EMIR, and a private accelerated share repurchase program.
• Provide ongoing representation of a publicly traded (NYSE) multinational manufacturing company in ISDA and NAESB financial and commodity hedging arrangements and related Dodd-Frank Act matters.
• Represented a privately held pipe manufacturing and logistics company as the borrower for a mezzanine facility.
• Provide ongoing representation for publicly traded and privately held petrochemical companies as the lessee in matters related to leveraged railcar equipment leases and the negotiation of non-leveraged leases.

Other notable engagements include:

• Represented a publicly traded (NYSE) shallow-water drilling company as the seller in a prepackaged bankruptcy sale of its drilling assets.
• Represented a publicly traded (NYSE) drilling company as the purchaser in the acquisition of directional drilling assets.
• Represented a private equity firm as the purchaser in the acquisition of the stock of a manufacturer of mixing and blending products for the energy industry.
• Represented a privately held energy industrial maintenance services company as the seller in the sale of the company to a private equity firm.
• Assisted in representing a publicly traded (NYSE) petrochemical company as the purchaser in multiple auction bids for the acquisition of crude refinery assets.
• Assisted in representing publicly traded (NYSE) chemicals manufacturing and energy companies in joint ventures to develop a soda ash transloading facility and a petcoke terminal facility.
• Represented a publicly traded (NYSE) oil and gas company as the purchaser in negotiating multiple petcoke supply agreements.
• Represented a publicly traded (NYSE) manufacturing company as the purchaser in negotiating sulphur supply and terminaling agreements.
• Provide ongoing representation of a publicly traded (NYSE) multinational drilling company as the borrower in senior secured credit facilities and related amendments and as issuer in multiple domestic and Canadian high-yield debt offerings.
• Represented multiple healthcare institutions as borrowers in secured revolving and term credit facilities, internal financings, and related amendments.
• Represented and assisted in representing privately held and publicly traded (NYSE and NASDAQ) manufacturing, procurement, media and entertainment, sporting goods, and energy companies, as well as a private equity firm, as borrowers in secured credit facilities (revolver and term features) and related amendments.
• Assisted in representing a publicly traded (NYSE) procurement company as the borrower in an unsecured credit facility.
• Represented a publicly traded (NYSE) oil and gas services company as the issuer in establishing and amending its commercial paper programs.
• Assisted in representing multiple healthcare institutions as the issuers of tax-exempt bonds as well as in related bond refinancings and credit matters.
• Represented a publicly traded (NYSE) manufacturing company in its plant shutdown due to a pigging incident on its natural gas pipeline.
• Assisted in representing both an international language learning company in its initial public offering on the NYSE and a global media and entertainment company with the spin-off of its outdoor advertising business as an independent public company listed on the NYSE.

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  Blank Rome Continues Expansion of Corporate, M&A, and Securities Group with Partner in Houston

  March 14, 2022

  Nina Skinner

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• 2006, 2011, Rising Star, Texas, listed in Super Lawyers

Memberships

• American Bar Association
• Hispanic Lawyers Network
• Houston Bar Association
• Institute for Energy Law
• State Bar of Texas

Nina is actively engaged in numerous community organizations, including the Association of Corporate Growth, Houston Chapter and Houston Women’s Forum; National Charity League Texas Sage Chapter; and Memorial Lutheran Church. She was also a founding member of Methodist Hospital Young Leaders for Medicine.

Admissions

• Texas

Education

• Tulane University, BS, magna cum laude
• University of Houston, MBA
• University of Houston Law Center, JD