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Donald A. Ensing Partner

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Don focuses his practice on corporate finance, particularly senior debt finance in the healthcare and energy sectors. 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.

Don’s experience includes syndicated, secured and unsecured senior debt, acquisition financing, real estate financing and complex intercreditor issues. His lending clients include both regulated banks and alternative 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 also represents refining and midstream companies in the energy sector in a variety of different financing, operational and strategic matters.

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.

Experience

Energy Sector

  • Represented publicly traded gas company in $1.850 billion revolving loan credit facility and $850 million unsecured term loan credit facility.
  • Represented Agent in $100 million fully secured working capital facility for petroleum logistics company.
  • Represented sponsor backed fuel wholesale company in leveraged acquisition financing.
  • Represented publicly traded petroleum and refined product logistics company in $800 million fully secured acquisition and working capital facility.
  • Represented refiner in long-term crude supply and off take agreement.
  • Represented purchaser in acquisition of bio-mass processing company.
  • Represented refiner in negotiation of buy/sells, storage and netting agreements.
  • Represented petroleum marketing and logistics company in long-term strategic arrangements and joint ventures.

Healthcare Finance

  • Represented Agent in multiple financings for private equity sponsor acquisitions of practice management companies in the dental, physical therapy and pain management spaces, along with other MSO/PC structure models.
  • Represented Agent in multiple financings for private equity sponsor acquisitions of medical device, pharma, healthcare lite and other healthcare sector companies.
  • Represented Agent in multiple financings for addiction treatment and therapy facility chains.
  • Represented Agent in ABL financings for numerous large nursing home and SNF chains, including facilities with HUD Section 232 financing.

Middle Market Commercial Lending

  • Represented Agent in $105 million secured acquisition financing for construction materials company.
  • Represented Agent in $350 million unsecured revolving credit facility for financial services firm.
  • Represented Agent in $200 million secured financing for consumer aluminum container manufacturing company.
  • Represented Agent in $175 million secured working capital financing for international catalog company.
  • Represented sponsor portfolio company in $300 million restructuring of secured revolving and term loan credit facilities.
  • Represented Agent in $82 million structured revolving and term loan credit facilities for media and advertising companies.
  • Represented Agent and first out lender in $50 million acquisition financing for farm products producer
  • Represent Agent in numerous middle market senior secured acquisition financing for private equity sponsored acquisitions, unitranche and first-out financings.

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