Scott G. Night
Biography
Scott Night represents lenders and borrowers in complex finance transactions, with a focus on structuring and documenting syndicated credit facilities, multi-currency credit facilities, and secured and unsecured financings. His practice includes credit facilities for real estate investment trusts (REITs), real estate investment funds, national homebuilders, hotel owners and operators, and companies in other industries, as well as leveraged financings for private equity sponsors acquiring or recapitalizing portfolio companies.
Scott’s representative matters include global, multi-jurisdictional and multi-currency credit facilities for publicly traded REITs, including facilities involving U.S., Canadian, Euro, Japanese, Korean and Chinese tranches, and large revolving, term loan and letter of credit facilities for publicly traded national homebuilders, hospitality companies and other borrowers. He has also handled real estate finance transactions involving hotel portfolios, self-storage properties, acquisition, construction and development loans, and other secured and unsecured credit facilities.
Clients and peers have recognized Scott for responsiveness, business perspective, and lender-side finance work. Chambers USA has recognized him for Banking and Finance, and his finance background is informed by his prior work as an auditor with a Big Four accounting firm. Scott is also a frequent speaker and author on finance-related issues, including Texas usury laws.
Scott has held leadership roles in Texas business law organizations and is currently serving as a member of the governing council of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas and is an active member of the Opinion Law Committee. He is also a past chair of the Business Law Section and its Commercial Financial Services Committee and a past chair of the Texas Business Law Foundation. Outside of law, Scott is a member of the Board of Directors of Broadway Dallas, an arts organization that promotes musical theater and other Broadway productions in Dallas.
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- US$3.4 billion equivalent global credit facility, US$1.75 billion equivalent global credit facility, and US$487.5 million equivalent term loan facility to publicly traded REIT involving U.S., Canada, Euro, Japan, Korea, and China tranches.
- $1.5 billion revolving credit and letter of credit facilities to publicly traded national homebuilder.
- $1.21 billion revolving credit facility to publicly traded national homebuilder.
- €900 million equivalent senior unsecured credit facility to European property fund.
- $700 million revolving credit and term loan facility secured by 16 hotel properties in multiple states.
- $500 million revolving credit facility for acquisition, construction, and development of multiple real property projects.
- $475 million revolving credit facility to publicly traded REIT.
- $450 million revolving credit facility to publicly traded national homebuilder.
- $320 million advancing term loan facility to facilitate acquisition financing and refinancing of publicly traded senior notes secured by multiple hotel properties.
- $300 million unsecured revolving credit facility to publicly traded real estate investment trust and its operating partnership.
- $300 million multi-currency revolving line of credit to publicly traded oil and gas production and marketing company.
- $200 million revolving credit facility secured by 25 hotel properties in multiple states.
- $140 million term loan facility secured by eight hotel properties in multiple states.
- $135 million revolving line of credit secured by 36 self-storage properties located in multiple states.
- $45 million revolving credit loan and $5 million term loan to National Basketball Association franchise.
- $188.35 million revolving credit and term loan facility in connection with acquisition of wine distribution business.
- $20 million revolving credit facility for working capital and acquisitions for an equipment distributor.
- $40 million credit facility to an oil and gas royalty partnership.
- $39.4 million revolving credit and term loan facility in connection with the acquisition of a rubber compounding business.
- $35 million revolving credit and term loan facility in connection with the acquisition of a distributor of oil and lubricant products.
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- Past Chair: Business Law Section, State Bar of Texas
- Vice Chair: Texas Business Law Foundation
- Member: Commercial Financial Services Committee, Business Law Section, State Bar of Texas
- Member: Opinions Law Committee, Business Law Section, State Bar of Texas
- Member: Texas Association of Bank Counsel
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- AV Peer Review Rated Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc., for Banking and Finance, 2013-2026
- Recognized by Best Lawyers as a 2020 "Lawyer of the Year," Woodward/White, Inc.
- Recognized by Chambers USA, Chambers and Partners, as a leading lawyer in Banking and Finance, 2010-2026
- Listed as one of the Best Lawyers in Dallas by D Magazine, D Magazine Partners, for Banking and Finance, 2005, 2011, and 2015-2020, 2022
- Named in Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2009-2019
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- "The Phase-Out of LIBOR and Its Effect on Credit Agreements and Other Debt Instruments, speaker, 16th Annual Advanced Business Law Course - TexasBar CLE, Dallas, November 8-9, 2018.
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Education
- J.D., Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, 1989, cum laude; Order of the Coif
- B.B.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 1983, with honors
Admissions
- Texas
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What types of finance transactions do you handle?
I represent lenders and borrowers in complex finance transactions, including syndicated credit facilities, multi-currency credit facilities, and secured and unsecured financings. My work includes credit facilities for REITs, real estate investment funds, national homebuilders, hotel owners and operators, and private equity sponsors financing acquisitions or recapitalizations.
How do you support real estate and hospitality finance clients?
I work on credit facilities tied to real estate assets and operating businesses, including facilities for publicly traded REITs, homebuilders, hotel portfolios, self-storage properties, and acquisition, construction and development projects. My representative matters include large revolving, term loan, letter of credit, and multi-currency facilities.
What experience do you have with cross-border or multi-currency facilities?
I have represented clients in global credit facilities involving multiple currencies and jurisdictions, including facilities with U.S., Canadian, Euro, Japanese, Korean and Chinese tranches. That work includes administrative agent and lead arranger representations for sizeable publicly traded REIT financings.
What informs your approach to finance transactions?
Before law school, I worked as an auditor with a Big Four accounting firm, which informs the business and financial perspective I bring to finance documentation and negotiations. Clients have praised my responsiveness, business perspective, and ability to work well with opposing parties.
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