Don focuses his practice on corporate finance, particularly senior debt financing for acquisition transactions. He is a co-chair of the firm’s Financial Institutions Industry Team, chair of the firm’s Finance Committee, and served on the firm’s Board of Partners from 2012-2018. He has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, Banking and Finance (Woodward/White, Inc.).

Don’s experience includes structuring and negotiating syndicated, secured and unsecured senior debt, acquisition financing, real estate financing, and navigating complex intercreditor issues. His lending clients include regulated banks, debt funds and other non-bank lenders. While Don’s background includes a broad range of commercial financing transactions, he has particular expertise advising agents, lenders and borrowers on structuring, negotiating and documenting senior debt facilities for healthcare, energy and early-stage technology companies, and the collateral and operational challenges specific to those sectors.

Don served as law clerk to District Court Judge F.A. Little of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana from 1998 to 1999.