Paul Heath > Vinson & Elkins LLP > Dallas, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Paul Heath
Work Department
Restructuring & Reorganization
Position
Partner
Career
An accomplished lawyer with more than 30 years of experience, Paul is a partner in the Restructuring and Reorganization practice group. During his career, Paul has handled a multitude of complex chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and out-of-court restructuring matters. He regularly represents public and private companies, and advises their respective board of directors and senior management on developing solutions for reorganizing capital structures and business operations. His clients include companies in a range of industries, including energy, distribution, manufacturing, and retail.
Paul also devotes a significant portion of his practice to the representation of senior secured lenders (both individual lenders and agented lender groups). In addition, he represents strategic and financial purchasers of assets from financially distressed companies.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
David Meyer and Bill Wallander, in New York and Dallas respectively, head Vinson & Elkins LLP’s restructuring and reorganization practice, which is best known for its work in the energy sector, and also represents companies, institutional and alternative lenders, private equity sponsors, distressed purchasers, and other interested parties in relation to in- and out-of-court restructuring matters in a variety of industries. Meyer has recently led a team, alongside Paul Heath in Houston, advising Riverstone Holdings LLC and certain of its funds as equity owners of Talen Energy Corporation in connection with the Chapter 11 case Talen Energy Supply. Wallander has considerable experience representing creditors, syndicated bank groups, bondholder groups, non-bank lenders, private equity funds, and debtors.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Government > Government relations
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Government > Government contracts
- Finance > Project finance
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Real estate > Land use/zoning