Brent Shultz

Brent Shultz has successfully negotiated and closed billions of dollars of complex debt financings for his clients. He leverages that experience to help companies in the financial services, private equity, and energy industries serve their customers and thrive in any business environment.

Before becoming an attorney, Brent worked as a financial analyst and strategic planner at a major airline, where he advised senior management on company-wide strategic initiatives. This work profoundly informed Brent’s clear-headed problem-solving approach to debt finance transactions which his clients find so valuable. They trust Brent to listen closely, to understand their goals, and to execute their most important transactions in a seamless, practical, and business-minded manner.

A good portion of Brent’s clients seek his counsel in connection with fund finance, including capital commitment-secured credit facilities, NAV credit facilities, hybrid subscription facilities, management lines of credit, general partner financings and employee co-investment facilities. Brent is a noted voice in the fund finance arena, serving on the American Bar Association’s Fund Finance Subcommittee, publishing numerous articles on fund finance topics, including with Law360 and Bloomberg Law, and serving as a panel moderator at the Fund Finance Association’s Global Symposium.

Brent employs this experience and thought leadership to help his clients navigate the most complicated and cutting-edge fund financing structures, ranging from bilateral credit facilities to new private equity sponsors to broadly syndicated subscription lines with liquidity of up to $8 billion dollars to some of the world’s largest sponsors.

Brent’s experience extends to other areas of the finance industry, including leveraged finance, private credit, energy finance, credit facilities to midstream energy companies, cash-flow facilities asset-based lending, acquisition finance, and project finance. He also handles restructuring, bankruptcy, and workout matters.

In recognition of his professional accomplishments, Brent was recently recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc., 2023-2024 legal directory after being named in the “One to Watch” category 2020-2022. Brent co-chairs Haynes and Boone’s fund finance marketing and publishing committees and serves on the firm’s Board Advisory Committee.

Brent has also served on Haynes and Boone’s pro bono committee, representing clients in veterans’ matters and acting as counsel for The H.E.A.R.T. Program, a Houston nonprofit that helps adults with intellectual/developmental differences to achieve their potential. He also takes an active role in his community and volunteers with Houston charitable organizations. He and his wife, Helen, are the proud parents of two daughters, Jillian and Ava.