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Ellen Gibson McGinnis of Haynes and Boone to Receive Yale Medal

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) has named Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Ellen Gibson McGinnis a recipient of the Yale Medal, the highest award presented by the association to recognize and honor outstanding individual service to the university.

The award will be presented to McGinnis and five other alums by the Chair of the AYA and the President of Yale at an awards dinner on Nov. 9. >>



Ellen Gibson McGinnis

Partner

Washington, D.C.


1615 L Street, NW
Suite 800
Washington, District of Columbia 20036-5610
T +1 202.654.4512
F +1 202.654.4242

Areas of Practice

Education

  • J.D., New York University School of Law, 1985
  • B.A., Yale University, 1982, cum laude

Bar Admissions

  • District of Columbia, 1996
  • New York, 1986
  • New Jersey, 1986
  • Texas, 1986
Ellen Gibson McGinnis

Ellen McGinnis is a partner in the Finance Group of Haynes and Boone.

Ellen works with financial institutions to structure, negotiate, and document complex loans to corporations, opportunity funds, and other commercial borrowers. With our team of finance and tax lawyers, she provides solutions that help our lending clients meet the business needs of their customers while facilitating the clients' credit and security goals. Ellen represents both foreign and domestic banks in transactions in the United States and around the world, often involving multi-currency and multiple option bid facilities, syndicated to groups of lenders.

In 2012, the Association of Yale Alumni presented Ellen with the Yale Medal, the highest award presented by the association to recognize and honor outstanding individual service to the university.

Selected Client Representations

  • Represented major U.S. and foreign banks as lead agents and arrangers to structure, negotiate and document more than $30 billion of syndicated credit facilities and commercial paper facilities to real estate opportunity funds and other investment entities, secured by the capital commitments of fund investors.

  • Represented lead agents and arrangers in multi-currency, multi-jurisdictional credit facilities to U.S. and non-U.S. borrowers.

  • Represented issuers to negotiate and document multi-currency letter of credit facilities for U.S. and foreign account parties.

  • Advised leading rail transportation company in Mexico on legal issues relating to a $250 million bank facility consisting of a commercial paper program backed by a letter of credit, and a term loan facility.

  • Represented lead agent and arranger in a $2 billion multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction credit facility for a global data systems company.

  • Represented U.S., British and Japanese lending group in $50 million secured multi-currency credit facility to affiliated U.S. and foreign borrowers.

Selected Representative Experience


$2 Billion Revolving Multi-Currency Credit Facility - Global Company Information Technology and Outsourcing Company
Advised the lead agent and arranger in a $2 billion multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction credit facility for a major data systems company.

Restructuring of Letters of Credit Securing Tax Exempt Bonds - Real Estate Developer
Represented a lender in connection with its numerous loans to a major Dallas real estate developer, including many letters of credit issued to enhance tax exempt bonds issued on behalf of the developer. The workout spanned a number of years and a number of loans, many of which were refinanced by other lenders, and some of which involved conveyance of certain properties by deed in lieu of foreclosure to an affiliate of the lender.

$575 Million Unsecured Facility - Publicly Traded REIT
Provided counsel to a money center bank in the syndication of a $575 million unsecured credit facility to a publicly traded real estate investment trust consisting of a revolving credit facility, competitive bid subfacility, swingline subfacility, and subfacility for taxable REIT subsidiaries.

Formation of Acquistion Vehicle
Advised a real estate company on formation of partnership to acquire $300 million office portfolio to acquire properties outside Texas.

Hotel Portfolio Acquisition
Advised a real estate company on acquisition of several hundred million dollars of partners' interests in a six-property hotel portfolio located in Texas, California, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas.

Multi-Currency Facility
Represented U.S. Bank as lead agent in multi-currency facility to multiple joint venture borrowers in Mexico and Asia.

Revolving Credit Agreement
Represented lender in $250 million syndication.

Revolving Credit Facility - Publicly Traded REIT
$150 million revolving line of credit (with letter of credit sub-facility) to publicly-traded real estate management services company.

Sale of Industrial Property Portfolio
Advised a real estate company on the sale of $471 million industrial portfolio of 23 properties, containing over 10 million square feet, in the following: Columbus, Ohio; Memphis; Nashville and Woodland, California.

Secured Revolving Credit Facility - Hotel Properties
$100 million revolving credit facility secured by three hotel properties located in Illinois and California.

Secured Multi-Facility Credit Agreement - Hotel Properties
Provided counsel to a national bank regarding a $675 million facility comprised of a $300 million revolving credit loan and $375 million term loan (participated in by various financial institutions and fund investors) secured by 16 hotel properties located in various states including New York, Florida, Illinois, Arizona, California, and Virginia.

Secured Multi-Currency Syndicated Facility - Real Estate Opportunity Fund
Provided counsel to a money center bank in the syndication of a $400 million senior secured revolving credit facility to a real estate opportunity fund, providing multi-currency options (Euros, Pounds Sterling, Yen), secured by capital commitments of public and governmental pension plans, insurance companies, and other institutional investors.

Syndicated Financing - Publicly Traded REIT
Provided counsel to a money center bank in the syndication of a $550 million unsecured revolving line of credit and $150 million bridge loan to publicly traded real estate investment trust.

Term Loan to Swedish Company
DM 360 million term loan to Swedish owner of refrigerated warehouse facilities and logistics services.

Unsecured Term Loan - Refrigerated Warehouse Facilities
$105 million unsecured term loan to a company that acquires and manages refrigerated warehouse facilities.

Memberships

  • Immediate-Past Chair, Board of Governors of the Association of Yale Alumni
  • Member, Council of Advisors of Women's Health Research at Yale
  • American Bar Association (International Law and Practice; Business Law; Law Practice Management)
  • Partner, Commission on Women in the Profession
  • New York State Bar Association
  • District of Columbia Bar
  • State Bar of Texas

Online Publications

01/18/2006 - Location for National Bank for Diversity Jurisdiction
On January 17, 2006, a unanimous United States Supreme Court held in Wachovia Bank, N.A. v. Schmidt that, for purposes of accessing federal courts under the current diversity jurisdiction statute, 28 U.S.C.§1348, a national bank is a citizen only of the state in which its main office, as set forth in its articles of association, is located.
 

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