Moira Watson Bio

Moira focuses her practice on commercial finance, corporate, and M&A matters. In the commercial finance space, Moira regularly represents and advises institutions (including agricultural lenders) in a variety of financing transactions, including working capital credit facilities, asset-based financings, and acquisition finances. She has experience as lead counsel in large, syndicated loan transactions as well. As a corporate and M&A attorney representing both for-profit entities as well as tax-exempt organizations, Moira’s representative work includes mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, structuring and advising on partnerships, joint ventures, joint development agreements and other complex contractual arrangements. She also advises her commercial and tax-exempt clients on matters of general corporate governance and compliance. In addition to her full time practice, Moira has taught Secured Transactions and Corporate Finance at the University of Oklahoma College of Law and is a frequently invited speaker at the University of Oklahoma Price College of Business. She has also published a chapter in Oklahoma Business and Commercial Law (2023), entitled, "The UCC in Oklahoma and Statutory Divergences" and was a member of the Oklahoma Legislative Review Committee charged with reviewing and advising on amendments to the Oklahoma Uniform Commercial Code.