Shane Noworatzky is a Special Counsel in the Finance and Bankruptcy Practice Group in the firm's Los Angeles office.
Shane specializes in representing lenders, borrowers, equity sponsors and administrative agents in commercial finance transactions.
Shane has significant experience with secured and unsecured syndicated loan transactions as well as single bank loan transactions. He also has experience with second-lien secured transactions, credit facilities for furniture, fixtures and equipment, and bridge loan transactions. Shane has worked on a number of cross-border transactions involving countries located in North America, the Caribbean, and Europe. He also worked on numerous tribal-related financing projects. With respect to industry focus, Shane has extensive experience working on transactions in the hotel, gaming and leisure industry, the entertainment industry and the energy industry.
Shane also has experience in the energy industry and previously worked as Senior Counsel at an electric utility. He has been involved with numerous energy procurement and sale transactions as well as project financing transactions. He has negotiated ISDA, EEI and NAESB enabling agreements, power purchase tolling agreements, energy storage agreements and resource adequacy purchase and sale transactions. Shane also has experience with transactions involving renewable energy credits, demand response services, heat rate call options, brokerage services, and combined heat and power projects. He also has significant experience working on requests for offers for energy products.