Bio

Shalla Prichard is a partner in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Global Finance, Private Equity and Capital Markets practice groups. Ms. Prichard’s specialties are leveraged financings and investments in the energy industry with a particular focus on the upstream, midstream and downstream energy sectors, including energy private equity. She represents public and private borrowers, private equity investors, financial institutions and other clients in a wide variety of financing transactions including reserve based loans, ABL facilities, other senior and subordinated debt, acquisition financing, drillco structures, preferred equity investments, structured financing, Up-C credits and other forms of debt and equity financing. Chambers USA ranks Ms. Prichard in Texas for the category of Banking & Finance, praising her “ability to work collaboratively with others to find creative solutions for clients” and that she’s “extremely knowledgeable, hard-working, very easy to work with and available when we need her and “an excellent partner, she collaborates better than almost anyone.” In 2020, Ms. Prichard was named among the 50 Most Powerful Women in Oil and Gas by the National Diversity Council.