2025 Texas ACG Capital Connection

Our attorneys are excited to attend the 2025 Texas ACG Capital Connection on February 26-28, 2025, in Houston. Please reach out to one of the attending attorneys below to learn more about Holland & Knight and what our firm has to offer. We look forward to connecting with you.

Experience You Can Bank On

Holland & Knight is a global law firm with approximately 2,200 lawyers and other professionals in 34 offices worldwide. The firm's lawyers and advisors provide representation in litigation, corporate and finance, real estate, healthcare and governmental matters. Interdisciplinary practice groups and industry-based teams provide clients with efficient access to attorneys throughout the firm.

Our significant experience with Senior Syndicated and Senior Cash-Flow Lending and Asset-Based Lending transactions allows us to provide timely and market current representation in a highly efficient manner. Having structured virtually all types of Cash-Flow and ABL facilities, we are well versed in the primary credit concerns and considerations of our clients – from the everyday to the esoteric. Our full service counseling focuses on achieving our clients’ desired business results in a manner consistent with institutional objectives.

Holland & Knight regularly ranks among the leading M&A and private equity law firms in reputable, benchmarking league tables published by Bloomberg, LSEG (formerly Refinitiv), Mergermarket, PitchBook and The Deal. In 2023, the firm ranked among the top five most active law firms in the U.S. and top 10 globally for its work in private equity transactions.

Sourcing and Matching Middle-Market Deal Opportunities with Buyers and Lenders

Our team knows that competition for deal flow is extremely high, with a large amount of capital in the market chasing too few deals. We launched HK Deal Flow℠ to enhance and supplement the deal-sourcing strategy of our private equity, family office, lender and other institutional investor clients.

As longtime trusted advisors to funds, portfolio companies, family offices, independent sponsors and other investors, Holland & Knight's attorneys advise clients on the legal and business challenges of today, providing responsive and comprehensive services to our clients.

We know where the pain points are in deals and the difference that having world-class counsel – and service – can make. Our proprietary HK Deal Flow℠ program is one of the many ways that we go above and beyond to service our clients.

Holland & Knight Attorneys Attending the Texas ACG Capital Connection

Chad Barton
Chad Barton
Partner
Dallas

Chad Barton represents private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies and a variety of other public and private companies in complex strategic, financial and other business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), including bolt-on and roll-up transactions; divestitures; carve-outs; joint ventures; restructurings; private equity-backed investments and venture capital investments, as well as general corporate counseling. Mr. Barton has substantial experience with planning, structuring and negotiating transactions for a diverse range of public company and private equity clients in the healthcare, energy, technology and telecommunications sector.


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James Brown
James R. Brown
Partner
Houston

James R. Brown is a corporate attorney in Holland & Knight's Houston office. Mr. Brown focuses his practice on a variety of matters related to corporate finance and securities law. Mr. Brown is experienced in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity, special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) offerings and securities law. He regularly counsels public companies on strategic transactions, capital markets offerings and general corporate and securities law matters.


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Alexei Chijoff-Evans
Partner
Dallas

Alexei Chijoff-Evans is a banking and finance attorney in Holland & Knight's Dallas office. Mr. Chijoff-Evans focuses his practice on project debt finance for renewable energy development, storage and transmission projects. Additionally, he has extensive experience working on trade, leverage and special purpose warehouse facilities financings. Mr. Chijoff-Evans has significant experience advising mandated lead arrangers, syndication agents and project sponsors on their project financings for the construction, development and operation of solar photovoltaic, wind, battery energy storage system and renewable natural gas production projects.


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Anthony J. Herrera
Anthony Herrera
Partner
Dallas

Anthony Herrera possesses an extensive background representing clients in the structuring, negotiation, documentation and closing of a broad variety of lending and financing transactions. He is particularly skilled and knowledgeable in asset-based lending and other senior-secured debt transactions. Mr. Herrera advises several of the nation's largest banks as well as finance companies, hedge funds and other debt investors in their domestic and international lending transactions, across a broad range of industries. A significant portion of Mr. Herrera's practice is dedicated to representing lenders in sponsor-backed credit facilities often involving multiple tranches of debt and complex intercreditor arrangements. Additionally, many of his engagements involve multijurisdictional and other complex cross-border components.


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Ashley M. Ingraham
Ashley Ingraham
Partner
Dallas

Ashley Ingraham primarily represents financial institutions, capital companies, business credit divisions and private capital funds in connection with their lending and investment transactions, including asset-based lending, cash-flow lending, real estate financing and senior debt financing. Ms. Ingraham also counsels senior lenders, subordinated lenders and equity investors in the complex intercreditor arrangements critical to various types of transactions. In addition, Ms. Ingraham also represents clients in mergers and acquisitions, as well as general corporate matters.


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Chauncey M. Lane
Partner
Dallas

Chauncey M. Lane is a transactional attorney in Holland & Knight's Dallas office. Mr. Lane structures and negotiates complex transactions for strategic buyers and sellers as well as private equity firms in the technology and financial services industries.


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Douglas Lionberger
Doug Lionberger
Partner
Houston

Doug Lionberger focuses his practice on capital markets and corporate law, including securities offerings, private equity, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and general corporate representation. Mr. Lionberger's capital markets experience includes the representation of issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings (IPOs) as well as public and private offerings of equity and debt securities. He also works with private equity investors, their portfolio companies, and a variety of other public and private companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and strategic investments.


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Arthur Lotz
Arthur Lotz
Partner
Dallas

Arthur Lotz is a debt finance attorney and focuses his practice on complex syndicated financing transactions for both borrowers and lenders, including term loan facilities, asset-based and reserve-based loans, and mezzanine facilities across a variety of industries. Mr. Lotz regularly advises private equity firms and their portfolio companies, corporate borrowers and other financial institutions.


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Jonathan Riley
Partner
Dallas

Jonathan Riley represents many of the nation's largest financial institutions and business capital companies in the structuring, negotiation and documentation of complex credit transactions. Additionally, he frequently advises corporate borrowers and private equity portfolio companies across a wide range of industries in connection with such transactions. As part of his practice, Mr. Riley provides counsel on secured and unsecured credit facilities, including bilateral and syndicated transactions, leveraged acquisitions and unitranche transactions. In particular, he has extensive experience documenting complex structured finance, fund finance and asset-based lending transactions.


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Michelle Suárez
Partner
Dallas

Michelle Suárez advises financial institutions, capital companies, business credit divisions and private capital funds in connection with their lending and investment transactions. Ms. Suárez has represented senior lenders throughout her 20 years of practice and, in particular, has an extensive understanding of structuring and negotiating complex asset-based credit facilities. She also has in-depth experience in senior cash flow products, tranche-B financings, leveraged acquisitions, recapitalizations, equipment financings, subordinated debt and mezzanine investments, as well as venture capital and other equity financings. Ms. Suárez also counsels senior lenders, subordinated lenders and equity investors in the complex intercreditor arrangements critical to various types of transactions, along with workouts and restructurings for troubled investments.


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HK Deal Flow Team

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Vincent Cordo
Chief Client Relations and Opportunities Officer
Tampa

Vincent Cordo leads the strategy and development of Holland & Knight’s Client Relations & Opportunities department. He focuses on identifying new targets, enhancing strategic business processes, and optimizing deal flow programs, particularly within Private Equity and Corporate practices. Mr. Cordo's efforts are directed towards strengthening the firm's presence in the Private Equity sector by improving deal management efficiency and fostering client relationships to fuel business expansion.


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Keith M. Ferry
Keith Ferry
Director of Deal Flow
Miami

Keith M. Ferry leads Holland & Knight’s deal-sourcing and deal-matchmaking platform HK Deal Flow℠. In this role, he sources deal opportunities from the firm's sizable network of attorneys and other deal intermediary professionals. He strategically matches those leads with the firm's private equity, family office and debt finance clients that are seeking opportunities. In addition, Mr. Ferry helps connect clients with centers of influence and facilitates introductions to contacts in the firm's network to create new and valuable relationships.


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Jose Gabaldon
Director of Client Relations - Private Equity
Miami

Jose Gabaldon supports Holland & Knights’s Private Equity practice group. He actively meets with the firm's private equity, family office and independent sponsor clients and prospects to understand their investment criteria and to determine which HK Deal Flow℠ program opportunities would be right for them. Mr. Gabaldon is an active ACG member, currently serving on the ACG DealMAX® 2025 and ACG Miami Network Planning Committees.


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