Donna Burnett represents participants in securities and structured finance transactions, including issuance (taxable and tax-exempt) as well as workouts and defaults on such transactions. Ms. Burnett has worked with a number of municipalities, energy companies, monoline insurers, trustee banks and purchasers or holders to help issue and secure debt (including collateralized debt obligations) and to help pursue remedies and liquidate assets following default on such debt. Drawing on her dedication to detail, Ms. Burnett has represented numerous Fortune 500 companies with respect to securitizations of assets and with respect to senior, senior-subordinated, and subordinated debt (including high yield debt), both secured and unsecured, as well as advice relating to hedges, swaps (including credit default swaps) and other financial derivatives in connection with the foregoing.
Education
- J.D., magna cum laude, University of Houston Law Center, 1980
Editor-in-chief, Houston Law Review, 1979 - 1980 - B.B.A., with highest honors, The University of Texas at Austin, 1975
Bar Admissions
Representative Experience
- An integrated energy company in connection with a $500,000,000 financing of the sale to its bankruptcy remote subsidiary of receivables from its jobbers and dealers, all without changing the existing complex practices of the company, its affiliates and their jobbers, dealers and other counterparties.
- A NY bond insurer as purchaser of $630,045,089 structured notes and insurer in securitization of volumetric production payment in oil and gas producing properties on the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico.
- A seller in structuring a FASB 98 $197,400,000 sale and leaseback of prison facilities and the related securitization of rental payments arising therefrom; create special purpose entities, prepare all transaction documents and render all bankruptcy remote and true sale opinions required by rating agency.
- An issuer in structuring FASB 140 $145,000,000 securitization of energy capacity contract; create special purpose entities, prepare all transaction documents and render all bankruptcy remoteness and true sale opinions required by rating agency.
- A NY bond insurer in negotiating and closing $134,000,000 tax exempt financing involving unique securitization of oil and gas producing properties.
- A NY bond insurer in negotiating and closing $279,000,000 taxable financing involving securitization of oil and gas overriding royalty payments.
- Multiple charities in structuring off balance sheet $87,500,000 securitization of life insurance premiums and create special purpose entity used in connection therewith.
- A NY banking organization as master servicer, administrator and collateral agent in establishing 8 conduit issuers of commercial paper collateralized by business loans to closed system of franchisees.
- National and state banks and trust companies as indenture trustees in connection with issuance of and pursuit of remedies with respect to collateralized debt obligations (CDOs, CLOs, CBOs, CMOs) and other asset backed transactions as well as tax exempt obligations.
- A hospital authority in $116,000,000 issuance of taxable revenue and mortgage bonds.
- An issuer and act as bond counsel on $5,000,000 economic development bonds in Texas.
- Numerous Fortune 500 companies in multiple issuances of senior, senior-subordinate and subordinated debt, both secured and unsecured.
- National and state banks and trust companies as trustee in CDOs, CLOs, CBOs, CMOs, and other types of asset-backed security transactions.
- National banking association as indenture trustee in defaulted tax-exempt bonds including negotiation of settlement agreements and sale of franchised hotels as well as multi-family apartments.
Publications & Presentations
Professional History
Professional Affiliations & Achievements
- Member, Structured Finance Industry Group
- Member, American Securitization Forum
- Member, American Bankers Association
- Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
- Member, Texas Association of Bank Counsel
- Member, Houston Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, State Bar of Texas
- Named, The Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law (2013)
Community Leadership
- Member, The Junior League of Houston
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