Rick Kuebel has extensive experience in oil, gas, and energy related bankruptcies and corporate restructuring solutions. Mr. Kuebel has represented numerous energy companies in business litigation or arbitration matters and regulatory disputes involving oil and gas exploration, development, transportation, refining and marketing. Mr. Kuebel has acted as counsel in numerous commercial disputes arising from offshore exploration prospect including Macondo, Atlantis, Thunder Horse, Petronius, Mad Dog, West Delta and the Cook Inlet.
Additionally, he provides counseling for real and mineral property transactions, including acquisitions, development, finance, joint operations, and divestitures and represents creditors in commercial collection litigation, property litigation, enforcement of security rights, and bankruptcy litigation.
He has represented a large number of major energy companies in a number of energy or energy-related industry restructurings and bankruptcies, including Lyondell Basell, SemCrude, Flying J, Enron (North America), Getty Petroleum Marketing, EOTT, Panaco, Contour Energy, TDC Energy, Watson Energy, TransTexas Oil and Gas, Forcenergy, WRT, Alma and Equinox, Rand Energy, NARCO, AP Green, Farmland Industries, PG&E, Babcock and Wilcox, Bethlehem Steel, and Friede Goldman Halter. In addition, he has formed or represented unsecured creditor committees in several reorganizations for companies such as Evans Industries, the Fairgrounds, WRT Energy, Jitney Jungle, Delchamps, Forcenergy, Friede Goldman Halter, Orion Refining, Lundy Enterprises, Valentine Paper and WFA (West Feliciana Paper Mill).
Education
- J.D., Loyola University School of Law, New Orleans, 1992
- B.A., Economics, Tulane University, 1986
Bar Admissions
Admitted To Practice
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (pro hac vice)
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (pro hac vice)