Mr. James Donnell

James Donnell is a partner in Baker & McKenzie LLP?s North America Corporate & Securities Group in New York and Houston. He has more than 30 years of experience representing lenders, creditors? committees, and debtors in bankruptcies and out-of-court restructurings, and is particularly experienced in energy-related restructurings. Mr. Donnell focuses on corporate restructuring and bankruptcy work, representing private investment funds, commercial banks and companies reorganizing under chapter 11. He also represents officers and directors of companies facing chapter 11, and has represented hedge\nfunds, commercial banks and creditor committees in oil and gas E&P, as well service company bankruptcies and restructurings, including Linn Energy and Berry Petroleum (Wells Fargo as agent), Foothill Resources (Regiment Capital), Forcenergy (debtor), Martin Exploration (Tenneco), Seven Seas Petroeum (committee/trustee), Stormcat Energy (Regiment Capital), TXCO Resources (CIT, Regiment and Carlson Capital), National Energy Group (committee), Z2 LLC (Hudson Advisors), Grand Prairie Re-\nsources (Duke Energy), Goldking Holdings (White Oak Energy), ProPetro (Regiment Capital), Sem-\nCrude (Magellan), Northstar Energy ( Hudson Advisors) and Azure Midstream Partners, LP (Wells Fargo as agent). He also has represented secured creditors and debtors in restructurings of chemical plants and refineries, including Agrifos, CIBRO Refinery, El Paso Refinery and Texas Petrochemicals. Mr. Donnell has been recognized as a ?Super Lawyer in Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights? by Texas Monthly from 2004-09 and as a New York Super Lawyer from 2010-16, and he is rated AV-Preeminent\nby Martindale Hubbell. He is admitted to practice in New York and Texas and served as chairman of the Indenture Trustee Subcommittee of the American Bar Association?s Business Bankruptcy Section and as chairman of its Energy Business Committee. Mr. Donnell received his B.S. cum laude from Rice University in 1983 and his J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law in 1986.