Shan A. Khan
Partner
Debt Finance
Overview
Shan Khan is a corporate partner in the Dallas office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Shan’s practice focuses on all aspects of debt financing transactions, including the representation of private funds, public and private companies, financial institutions and alternative lenders in secured and unsecured financings, cash-flow and asset-based facilities, acquisition financings, recapitalizations, cross-border transactions, and second-lien, mezzanine and subordinated financings. His experience spans transactions across a range of industries including technology, energy, manufacturing, retail, healthcare and life sciences. Shan’s practice also includes a focus on pro bono projects.
Experience
Representative Matters
While at Kirkland, Shan has been involved in the following representations:
- United Production Partners Resources, LLC in its third amended and restated senior secured reserve-based revolving credit facility, with $325 million of maximum commitments, secured by oil and gas assets in Texas and Virginia
- Cineworld Group plc and 104 of its debtor affiliates in nearly $2 billion in debtor-in-possession financing in connection with their Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, Cineworld, the parent company of Regal Entertainment Group, is the second-largest cinema chain in the world, operating over 9,100 screens at nearly 750 cinemas in 10 countries worldwide
- Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) in $8 billion in credit facilities, including a $3 billion 364-day unsecured revolving facility, a $2.5 billion 4-year unsecured revolving facility and a $2.5 billion 5-year unsecured revolving facility
- Bluescape Energy Partners in its purchase of $60 million of convertible senior secured notes from 5E Advanced Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEAM)
- Warren Equity Partners in connection with financing for its acquisition of MacQueen Equipment, LLC, a heavy environmental equipment dealer, lessor and service provider
- Main Street Capital Corporation in various financings in the software and technology industry
- WPX Energy, Inc. (NYSE: WPX) in its $12 billion all-stock merger of equals with Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE: DVN)
- A Warburg Pincus portfolio company in a $1 billion working capital facility
- Gryphon Partners in financing matters pertaining to Smile Brands
- Industrial Growth Partners (IGP) on its acquisition of APCT, a designer and manufacturer of low volume, high mix advanced technology printed circuit boards, from Angeles Equity Partners
- McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE: MDR) and its affiliates, a leading global provider of integrated engineering, procurement, construction and technology services, in creditor negotiations achieving a prepackaged Chapter 11 filing that deleveraged over $4 billion of funded debt and in securing a $2.81 billion debtor-in-possession financing package from their senior secured lenders
- Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc. (NASDAQ: XOG) in Civitas Resources, Inc.’s $4.5 billion acquisition of Crestone Peak Resources
- Centennial Resource Development in its uptier exchange of $250 million unsecured notes for $130 million second lien notes, related amendment to its $700 million reserve-based credit facility and negotiation of related intercreditor arrangements
- STX Beef Company, an affiliate of JDH Capital, in financing for its acquisition of Kane Beef Processing
- A Vortus Investments portfolio company in a $110 million secured term loan facility
- C&J Energy Services in an approximately $1.8 billion merger-of-equals with Keane Group and the refinancing of the combined company's ABL loan facility
- Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FET), a global oilfield products company, in its issuance of $315 million of Convertible Senior Secured Notes in exchange of approximately $328 million of existing unsecured notes
- Värde Partners in a $150 million secured term loan facility for a private E&P company
- Vanguard Natural Resources, Inc. in its $130 million DIP facility and its $415 million exit facility
- A private company in a $100 million reserve-based working capital facility
- The sponsors and Sable Permian Resources, LLC in the successful completion of AEPB’s $2.1 billion out-of-court recapitalization. The transaction reduced AEPB’s debt obligations by approximately $1.4 billion and reduced upcoming debt maturities over the next four years to approximately $36 million from approximately $2.1 billion. In addition, the transaction eliminated approximately $94 million of annual cash interest expense and simplified AEPB's organizational structure
Prior to joining Kirkland, Shan was involved in the following representations, among others:
- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) in a $40 million revolving credit facility for letters of credit
- Belden, Inc. (NYSE: BDC) in a $400 million syndicated cross-border, secured asset-based revolving credit facility and term loan
- A lead left arranger and administrative agent in a $1.39 billion unsecured revolving credit facility provided to a public natural gas storage, transportation and processing company
- HF Sinclair Corporation (NYSE: DINO) in its $1 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility
- A private debt capital fund and its co-investor in a $65 million second lien term loan to acquire a custom flavor manufacturing business
- A private debt capital fund in a $40 million subordinated term loan to acquire a pharmaceutical technology business
- A private debt capital fund in a $26 million subordinated term loan to acquire a biotechnology development business
- A private equity fund in a $35 million secured revolving and term credit facilities in connection with the acquisition of a manufacturing company
- A mezzanine fund in an $83 million secured second lien term loan facility to finance the acquisition of a software company
- A mezzanine fund in the private placement of $39 million of unsecured senior subordinated notes to a software company
- Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as agent, in a $500 million reserve-based revolving credit facility for an E&P company
- JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in a $150 million revolving credit facility to Vitamin Shoppe Industries Inc.
- JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in a $900 million revolving credit facility to an energy services company
Prior Experience
Vinson & Elkins LLP
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Memberships & Affiliations
Dallas Bar Association
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2015Texas
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Urdu
Education
- Columbia Law SchoolJ.D.2015
Parker School Certificate for Achievement in International and Comparative Law
Submissions Editor, Columbia Journal of Race and Law
- Harvard UniversityA.M., Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations2011Harvard University Teaching Fellowship
- University of Texas at AustinB.A., English & Asian Cultures and Languages2010
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