
Bailey Pham

Trammell Crow Center
2001 Ross Avenue
Suite 3900
Dallas, Texas 75201

Bailey focuses on representing financial institutions, corporate lenders, and businesses in all types of financing arrangements, including acquisition loans, asset-based loans, and energy loans. She represents both agent banks and borrowers in domestic and international syndicated loan transactions, particularly in secured, leveraged credits covering various industries and markets.
Bailey is a member of the firm’s Diversity Executive Committee.
Experience Highlights
Holly Corporation in its $7 billion merger with Frontier Oil Corporation, creating one of the largest independent refiners in the United States
An international private equity fund in connection with a $1.2 billion structured repurchase agreement transaction designed to finance the acquisition of a dynamic portfolio of loans
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as agent, in a $325 million asset-based revolving credit facility, with sub-facilities for a Canadian revolving facility not to exceed $25 million and an Ex-Im facility not to exceed $25 million, to a manufacturer and distributor of products and services for several industries
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as agent, in a $500 million reserve-based revolving credit facility for an E&P company
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in a $200 million amended and restated revolving credit facility, with U.S. and German tranches, to Neenah Paper, Inc.
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in a $300 million U.S/Canadian/German/Swiss/U.K. cross-border, multi-currency syndicated credit facility to a fragrance company
Royal Bank of Canada in a $900 million revolving credit facility to Martin Midstream Partners L.P.
Administrative agent in a $120 million revolving credit facility to a distributor of insulation products
JPMorgan Chase Bank in a $100 million asset-based revolving credit facility to Vitamin Shoppe Industries LLC
JPMorgan Chase Bank in an $800 million syndicated, asset-based revolving credit facility to Dillard’s, Inc.
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as agent, in a $500 million reserve-based revolving facility for an E&P company that is a federally chartered Tribal business corporation formed pursuant to 25 U.S.C. Section 477
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as agent, in a $750 million asset-based revolving credit facility and term loan to a distributor of petroleum and lubricant products
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as agent, in a $150 million reserve-based revolving credit facility for two companies that are owners of royalty interests and non-operated working interests
A bank in a private equity co-invest facility for partners and their affiliates at the private equity fund
HollyFrontier Corporation in its $1 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility
An oil and gas refining company in a $350 million term loan agreement for a senior unsecured 3-year syndicated term loan
A midstream MLP in connection with its $1.5 billion syndicated secured senior credit facility
A network of independent optometrists, as borrower, in a $135 million secured revolving credit facility and term loan
Southwest Airlines Co. in its funding from the United States Department of Treasury of $4.93 billion under the Payroll Support Program of the CARES Act and the extensions of that program, and in its negotiations of the related loans, warrants, and other agreements
An oilfield services company in a $100 million asset-based credit facility and a $315 million term loan facility
An investment firm in a $1 billion Loan and Security Agreement in order to fund the origination of unitranche loans
An investment firm in a $500 million Loan and Security Agreement in order to fund the origination of unitranche loans
A private equity fund, as borrower, in two senior secured term loans totaling $148 million
A private equity fund in a $15.5 million term loan for the acquisition of a company that offers employee wellness programs and health care cost containment products
A private equity fund in a $7 million term loan and $2 million revolving facility in connection with the acquisition of several health care companies that provide psychiatric services
Credentials
- Southern Methodist University, J.D. magna cum laude, 2008 (Order of the Coif; President, SMU Law Review Association; Treasurer, Asian American Law Students Association; ALI-ABA Scholarship Award, 2008)
- Wake Forest University, M.S., Accountancy, 2002
- Wake Forest University, B.S., Accountancy cum laude, 2002
- Chambers USA, Banking & Finance (Texas), 2022; “Up and Coming” in Banking & Finance (Texas), 2022
- Texas Lawyer, Lawyer on the Rise, Banking & Finance, 2017
- IFLR1000, 2020–2022
- Member: Dallas Bar Association; Dallas Association of Young Lawyers; Dallas Asian American Bar Association; Junior League of Dallas; 2009 DAYL Leadership Class; 2013 Business Council of the Arts’ Arts Leadership Class; Turnaround Management Association; Attorneys Serving the Community; Mac Taylor Inn of Court
- Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- Rankings & AwardsJune 1, 2023
- IFLR1000 2022 Recognizes Vinson & Elkins in 21 Practice Categories, Recommends 49 Individual LawyersRankings & AwardsAugust 25, 2022
- Rankings & AwardsJune 1, 2022
- Deals & CasesMay 4, 2022
- Deals & CasesApril 8, 2022
- Deals & CasesNovember 10, 2021
- IFLR1000 2021 Recognizes Vinson & Elkins in 21 Practice Categories, Recommends 52 Individual LawyersRankings & AwardsAugust 25, 2021
- InsightSeptember 10, 2018
- “Kayo Womens Energy Summit,” April 16, 2019 (speaker)
- “The Need for Regulations to Address the Slow Transition to Halon Alternatives in the Civil Aviation Industry,” Journal of Air Law and Commerce, Vol. 72, No. 4, Fall 2007