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Mr Erland Modesto
Work Department
Corporate/Banking and Credit
Position
Erland is a corporate finance Partner in the Firm’s Houston office. Erland represents both lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of debt financing and general corporate matters and has represented clients multiple industries, including in the oil and gas exploration and production, midstream and oilfield services sectors. Representative transactions that he has worked on include “holdco” level financings, back leverage facilities, reserve and other asset based facilities and acquisition and project financings. He has extensive experience in distressed financings and general leveraged lending. His clients have included JPMorgan, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, First Reserve Corporation, KKR, Wells Fargo, Bank of Montreal, Sunpower and other leading financial institutions. Erland was named by Law360 as a 2023 Top Attorney Under 40 “Energy Rising Star”. He has also been ranked by Chambers USA and was named a “Lawyer on the Rise” by Texas Lawyer earlier in his career. Erland is Co-Hiring Partner for the Firm’s Houston office and serves on the Firm’s Opinion and Recruiting committees.
Career
Joined Simpson Thacher in 2010; became partner in 2019.
Education
J.D., with Honors, Recipient of the Roberta Wright Reeves Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Law, University of Texas School of Law (2010); B.A., Boston College (2007)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Commercial lending
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP maintains its leading position across the borrower and lender markets, standing out particularly for its ability to advise on high-value and impactful acquisition financings. The team’s lender-side activity involves work for major banks such as JP Morgan as well as an expanding roster of clients in the private credit space, while its borrower-side clients include some of the nation’s largest private equity firms alongside corporate borrowers such as Dell Technologies. Most frequently advising on leveraged buyouts and investment-grade credit facilities in connection with high-value acquisitions, the firm also actively assists with asset-based lending and refinancings. Standout recent deals in this space include New York-based partner William Sheehan‘s representation of Bank of America in providing $21.7bn of unsecured credit facilities to Oracle. Practice head Patrick Ryan, a longstanding acquisition finance expert, also works out of New York, alongside key contacts James Cross and Jennifer Hobbs. In Houston, Matt Einbinder and Erland Modesto are highly recommended for their ability to advise on financings in the energy sector.
United States > Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
(Next Generation Partners)Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners United States > Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Commercial lending United States > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Finance > Project finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)