Paul H. Amiel

Paul Amiel represents corporate borrowers, private equity sponsors, and lenders in debt financing transactions, with a practice focused on negotiating, documenting, and closing credit facilities and acquisition financings. During more than four decades at Haynes Boone, where he has spent his entire legal career, Paul has advised on billions of dollars of financings involving senior secured and unsecured debt, second lien loans, mezzanine investments, subordinated debt, and other acquisition financing structures. Clients value his deep experience across the full spectrum of debt products, his command of current market terms, his practical approach to negotiations, and his commitment to understanding each client's objectives.

Paul’s early work representing Texas banks, savings and loan associations, and other financial institutions in loan transactions and workouts informs his borrower-side counsel today. He uses that lender-side perspective to help corporate clients and private equity clients address key financing terms, anticipate negotiation issues, and align debt structures with operational and deal objectives, including financings for portfolio company acquisitions.

Before beginning his legal career, Paul served for six years as a naval officer on Admiral Rickover’s staff at the U.S. Division of Naval Reactors. His leadership experience, including more than 20 years as Haynes Boone’s chief information officer, supports a strategic approach to finance matters that keeps the client’s business goals at the center of the transaction.