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Jeris Brunette
Work Department
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
Position
Jeris Brunette focuses her practice on commercial lending and project finance in a variety of industries with an emphasis on the renewable energy sector. She advises, structures and negotiates a range of secured and unsecured financial transactions, including structuring and negotiating senior and subordinated debt financings, acquisition and project financings, structured financings, securitizations and physical and financial commodity hedges. Jeris’ clients include financial institutions, private equity funds and other energy-sector borrowers.
Notably, Jeris represented Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank as collateral agent to the revolving debtor-in-possession lenders in the $2.81 billion prepackaged Chapter 11 restructuring transaction for McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE:MDR) approved January 23, 2020 and as lead arranger, revolving agent and collateral agent in the $1.7 billion superpriority rescue financing for MDR closed October 21, 2019.
She has been recognized by The Legal 500 United States for Commercial Lending (2018-2019, 2023) and Project Finance (2018-2019). Jeris has also been named to list of Rising Stars by IFLR1000 Financial & Corporate and M&A Guide in Banking (2016-2023), Law360 Banking Rising Star (2021), as well as the New York Super Lawyers Rising Stars list for Securities & Corporate Finance (2017-2019).
Education
New York University School of Law, J.D.
2008
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Commercial lending
Based in Texas, the finance team at Bracewell LLP is active on both the borrower and lender sides of financing. The team is experienced at representing large energy companies and private equity funds investing in energy. Clients include foreign banks, US money center banks, large midstream companies and regulated utilities. The team is jointly led by practice heads Dewey Gonsoulin Jr who is active in energy financing, specifically credit facilities in the upstream energy sector; Heather Brown who is adept at handling restructurings and loan workouts in the energy sector; G Alan Rafte and Robin Miles . Another notable mention in the team is Jeris Brunette , whose expertise lies in corporate and project finance in the energy and power sectors.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Government > Government relations
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense