Joseph McKernan

• Represented a telecom company in a $300 million financing transaction to fund a factoring program.
• Represented a telecom company in a $150 million financing transaction to fund a working capital facility.
• Represented a metals trading firm in a $100 million refinancing of a working capital facility.
• Represented a bank as the arranger in a $100 million senior-secured credit facility for an NBA franchise.
• Represented a power-generation company as the sponsor in a $500 million acquisition financing of a portfolio of peaking generation facilities.
• Represented a power-generation company as the sponsor in a $1.165 billion acquisition financing of a power plant.
• Represented a bank as the senior lender in a three-tier mezzanine financing of a portfolio of real properties.
• Represented an oil and gas services company as the borrower in a $375 million senior-secured revolving credit facility.
• Represented a bank in a loan to a U.S. nuclear fuel enrichment company in connection with overall financing that includes financing under a U.S. Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program.
• Represented a wind-turbine manufacturer in an investment of an offshore wind-farm project.

Joe McKernan counsels lenders, administrative agents, borrowers, investors, sponsors, financial institutions, hedge funds, and private equity funds on a variety of syndicated and single-lender credit facilities. He has extensive transactional experience representing an assortment of secured and unsecured senior and mezzanine financing transactions and also represents clients in a wide range of energy derivative transactions and other energy transactions.

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• Fordham University (J.D., 1997)
• University of Texas at Austin (M.S., 1994)
• Cornell University (A.B., 1988)