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Gail practices in the corporate and securities and business transactions areas of the firm, with extensive experience in a variety of corporate transactions and a particular emphasis in corporate finance matters, including taxable and tax-exempt public debt issuances, private placements, commercial paper programs, syndicated and single-lender loan and letter of credit facilities, debt restructures, project financings, leveraged and synthetic lease transactions, structured financings, asset securitizations, cross-border and multi-currency financings, collateralized mortgage obligations, venture capital investments and lender liability counseling. Gail has represented a wide range of participants in these matters, including national, state and foreign banking institutions, insurance companies, trustees, asset-based and other lending institutions, underwriters, venture capital investors, securities issuers, borrowers and other corporate clients. A significant portion of her practice has also been devoted to transactions related to the health care industry. Gail also has extensive experience in handling secured transactions, including under both Articles 8 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Gail was named a "Texas Super Lawyer" for each year 2003-2006, as published in Law & Politics and Texas Monthly; one of Houston's "Best Lawyers" for 1998 and 2002, as published in Inside Houston; and one of the "Best Lawyers in America" for 1995-2007, as published by Woodward/White Publications.
ARTICLES / PUBLICATIONS
Author/Speaker
Co-editor, Legal Opinion Risk Seminar Handbook, October 2006
Statement on Legal Opinions Regarding Indemnification and Exculpation Provisions Under Texas Law, Subcommittee on Legal Opinions Regarding Indemnities, Legal Opinions Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, Texas Journal of Business Law of the State Bar of Texas, Spring, 2006
Legal Opinions Under the New BOC, The University of Texas School of Law 2006 Partnerships, Limited Partnerships and LLCs Conference, July and September, 2006
"Working with Opinions Under the New Texas Business Organizations Code," The University of Texas School of Law, Houston and Dallas, Texas, 2006
"Update on Legal Opinions: The Effect of the TBOC on Legal Opinion Practice," State Bar of Texas, 3rd Annual Advanced Business Law 2005, Houston, Texas, November 3-4, 2005
Co-chair of the Subcommittee on Legal Opinions in Investment Securities which authored Supplement No. 2 to the Report on the Legal Opinions Committee Regarding Legal Opinions on Security Interests in Investment Property, Texas Journal of Business Law of the State Bar of Texas, Spring, 2001
"Legal Opinions - Their Scope and Relevance in Today's Practice," State Bar of Texas Business Law Symposium, June, 1999
"Legal Opinions," State Bar of Texas Business Law Seminar, June, 1997
Chair of the Subcommittee on Legal Opinions Regarding Usury, which authored Supplement No. 1 to the Report on the Legal Opinions Committee Regarding Legal Opinions on Usury, Bulletin of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, December, 1994
Testified on the Subcommittee Report on Proposed Constitutional Amendment Relating to School Prayer, on behalf of the Committee on Federal Legislation of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Hearings on S.J. Res. 73 and S.J. Res. 212 before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 98th Congress, First Session, 1983
"The Protection of Individual Choice: A Consistent Understanding of Religion Under the First Amendment," The University of Chicago Law Review, 1978
Doctoral dissertation entitled "Liberalism and Religion in Political Philosophy and American Constitutional Law"
PROFESSIONAL / CIVIC AFFILIATIONS
Awarded the Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Service to the State Bar of Texas, June 2002
Chair, Vice Chair and Immediate Past Chair, Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas (approximately 3,500 members), 2003-2006
Member
State Bar of Texas, Business Law Section
Council Member of the Section (1998-2005)
Member, Commercial Financial Services Committee
Past Chair and member, Legal Opinions Committee
National Legal Opinion Project Study Group (2005 - Present)
New York State Bar Association
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1981-1987)
Committee on Federal Legislation (1981-1983)
Committee on Banking Law (1984-1987)
American Bar Association
Business Law Section, Legal Opinions Committee
Investment Securities Subcommittee of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the Business Law Section (1996-1997)
Texas Association of Bank Counsel
Texas Business Law Foundation
Director, 1995 to Present
Member, Subcommittee on the Usury Reform Act Bill
Houston Commercial Finance Lawyers Forum
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