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Harry A. Perrin
Harry A. Perrin
Senior Partner — Restructuring & Reorganization
Senior Partner — Restructuring & Reorganization

Harry A. Perrin

Harry A. Perrin
Houston

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

Harry A. Perrin

Experience Highlights

  • Sable Management LLC in its capacity as an equity sponsor and certain officers and directors of Sable Permian Resources in connection with the Company’s chapter 11 cases, which resulted in a $1.3 billion credit-bid asset sale, a global settlement with key stakeholders, and confirmation of a chapter 11 plan in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas

  • RAAM Global Energy and its subsidiaries, an offshore and onshore E&P company, in their chapter 11 restructuring of over $300 million in debt; credit bid sale approved and plan confirmed in the first 3 months of the chapter 11 case filed in Houston, Texas

  • Energy XXI Ltd, a publicly-traded offshore energy E&P company, in connection with its chapter 11 cases which reduced the company’s funded debt by more than $3 billion

  • Goodrich Petroleum in out-of-court restructuring transactions and in-court restructuring involving the deleveraging of nearly $450 million

  • Co-counsel to the Houston Astros as owner and substantial creditor in connection with the involuntary chapter 11 case commenced against the Houston Regional Sports Network

  • Co-counsel to the Ad Hoc Committee of the holders of $1.5 billion in second lien notes in ATP Oil & Gas Corporation’s chapter 11 case

  • Counsel to CDX Gas, LLC, an energy exploration and production company, as debtor in possession in its chapter 11 bankruptcy case filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas; successful confirmed plan of reorganization for the CDX debtors remaining in chapter 11

  • Counsel to Spectrum Brands, Inc., a retail consumer goods company, as debtor in possession in its chapter 11 bankruptcy case filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Texas; plan confirmed

  • Counsel to a secured lender group in the chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Heritage Consolidated LLC, et al., an energy exploration and production company, filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas; plan confirmed

Credentials

  • University of Houston Bates College of Law, J.D. magna cum laude, 1980 (University of Houston Law Review)
  • University of Texas, B.B.A., Accounting with honors, 1975 (Beta Alpha Psi, Accounting Honor Fraternity; Beta Gamma Sigma, Business Honor Fraternity)
  • Chambers USA, Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Texas), 2009–2023
  • Legal 500 U.S., Corporate Restructuring, 2013 and 2014; Finance: Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy): Corporate, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022, and 2023
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law (Houston), 2010–2024
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Lawyer of the Year” in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law (Houston), 2016 and 2020
  • Selected to the Texas Super Lawyers list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2012–2013 and 2015–2019
  • Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Restructuring & Insolvency Lawyers, 2020
  • Fellow: American College of Bankruptcy
  • Member: Houston Bar Association; American Bankruptcy Institute; Texas Longhorn Foundation 200 Horns Club & Littlefield Society; Dean’s Society, University of Houston Law Center; Houston Bar Foundation (Sustaining Member)
  • Director & Lifetime Vice President: Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo
  • Texas
  • United States Supreme Court
  • U.S. Courts of Appeal for 5th, 9th, and 11th Circuits
  • U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Western, Northern, and Eastern Districts of Texas
  • “Deleveraging Energy Companies to Survive Depressed Commodity Prices,” The Center for American and International Law’s 68th Annual Oil & Gas Law Conference, Houston, Texas, February 17, 2017 (speaker)
  • “How Private Equity Firms Work With Restructuring Advisors,” Turnaround Management Association, Houston, Texas, June 1, 2016