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Mr Erland Modesto
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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 > Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
A deep roster of clients across the full oil and gas value chain, most notably private equity and investment banks, continues to turn to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP for advice on complex M&A and related financings, investments, and dispositions. The team also routinely handles transactions for companies in the upstream, midstream, petrochemical, oil field services, offshore and LNG sub-sectors. From the Houston office, Erland Modesto is a standout player in the energy-related financing sector, where he frequently advises major banks on high-profile financings in the energy space. Breen Haire’s wide client base includes companies operating in the oil and gas exploration and production, midstream, and oil field service sectors, while capital markets specialist Brian Rosenzweig is recognized for his expertise in advising on high yield offerings by energy issuers, including oil field service companies, upstream producers, and midstream companies. With broad expertise in oil and gas exploration and production, Brandan Still is also recommended. All practitioners are based in Houston.
Lawyer Rankings
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
- 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+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- 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
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- 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 > Project finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- 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
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Finance > Fintech