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Alex Cross

Partner, Energy & Infrastructure

alexcross@paulhastings.com

Alex Cross is a partner in the Global Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's Houston office. He represents alternative capital providers, publicly and privately held corporate borrowers and issuers, private equity funds and sponsors, credit funds and commercial banks. Mr. Cross has experience on a wide range of complex financing transactions, including, among others, workouts and reorganizations, mezzanine, alternative and other forms of direct lending, acquisition financings, and asset- and reserve-based loans. In addition, Mr. Cross has addressed matters across various industries and has in-depth experience with the energy sector in the form of oil and gas exploration and production, oilfield services and storage, and transportation. Many of his engagements involve complicated financial restructurings and recapitalizations on both an in-court and out-of-court basis.

EDUCATION

The University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 2014

The Pennsylvania State University, B.A., 2011

REPRESENTATIONS

Distressed Debt, Restructurings and Work-Out Transactions
  • Riverstone Holdings, its portfolio company Talen Energy Corp. (TEC) and TEC’s wholly owned subsidiary, Cumulus Growth Holdings in the Chapter 11 cases of TEC’s wholly owned subsidiary Talen Energy Supply, which involved key settlements that paved the way for a consensual reorganization of Talen’s legacy power generation business and the Cumulus data center and cryptomining growth initiatives and allowed Riverstone to retain material equity positions in both TEC and Cumulus Growth.

  • Angelo Gordon as administrative agent for a prepetition secured credit facility and a debtor-in-possession credit facility, and stalking horse bidder and purchaser of certain upstream oil and gas assets in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Weatherly Oil & Gas.

RECOGNITIONS

  • Ones to Watch, Banking and Finance Law (Houston), The Best Lawyers in America