Mark D. Holmes

Partner

Finance

“Mark is ‘incredibly commercially minded, very smart and dedicated and able to get projects done.’ His ‘client service, level of sophistication and commercial vision are very strong. He’s a great attorney and we’re thankful to have his partnership.’” [Chambers USA, 2023]

Mark Holmes of Vinson and Elkins Houston

Overview

Mark is a leading energy and infrastructure finance lawyer. He regularly represents borrowers, lenders, sponsors and direct lenders in complex and innovative project or leveraged finance transactions, including project financings, hybrid finance structures, acquisition financings, bridge financings, back leverage financings, term loan B financings, reserve-based financings, workouts and restructurings, debt portfolio acquisitions and alternative capital solutions.

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Experience

  • Circulus Holdings, PBLLC, an Ara Partners portfolio company and a producer of high-quality resins for commercial and industrial uses from recycled low-density polyethylene, in its $300 million project financing and development of plastics recycling facilities in California, Oklahoma and Alabama

  • JPMorgan Chase Bank in aggregation term loan facilities totaling $300 million in connection with the refinancing of tax equity investments, project financings and back-leveraged refinancings for up to 50 solar generation projects located throughout the United States

  • Riverstone, as direct lender, in the project financing and development of a 150-mile propane pipeline in Texas by EPIC Propane Pipeline, LP, which received a Second Party Opinion from Sustainable Fitch confirming that it was structured in line with LSTA Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles

  • WaterBridge Operating in its $1 billion term loan B facility and $150 million revolving credit facility

  • Marathon Oil Company in its acquisition financing of the Eagle Ford assets of Ensign Natural Resources, which involved both a $1.5 billion bridge facility and a two-year $1.5 billion term loan facility

  • Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. and Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC, subsidiaries of Cheniere Energy, Inc., in the refinancing of their respective $1 billion hybrid revolving credit facilities

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Credentials

Education

  • University of Houston Law Center, J.D., 2003
  • The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., 1999

Admissions

  • Louisiana
  • New York
  • Texas

Recognitions

  • Legal 500 U.S., Energy Transactions: Electric Power, 2026; Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power, 2025; Finance: Commercial Lending, 2025 and 2026
  • Chambers USA, Banking & Finance (Texas), 2019–2026
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), Banking & Finance Law, 2018–2023, 2026 and 2027
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Powering Texas: Roadmap for Structuring Bankable TEF Projects

In this program, we explored the intricacies of developing government-funded projects, with a focus on the Texas Energy Fund (TEF) loan program.

October 9, 2024

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