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Experience

Poonam obtained the following experience while an associate at Vinson & Elkins.

 

  • Represented a water and chemical solutions provider in a $550 million sustainability linked senior secured credit facility
  • Represented a land resource management company in connection with a $500 million senior notes offering and a concurrent $275 million senior secured revolving credit facility
  • Represented a water resource management company in a recapitalization and refinancing of its existing credit facilities and a $500 million senior secured revolving credit facility
  • Represented a joint venture backed by two private equity funds in a $950 million senior secured term loan B credit facility and a $300 million senior secured revolving credit facility
  • Represented a private equity portfolio company in a $400 million multi-draw term loan and revolving credit facility
  • Represented an energy transition fund portfolio company in a $22 million revolving credit facility to fund the development of data centers and renewable energy generation
  • Represented a multinational financial services company in a $30 million super-priority senior secured working capital facility

Credentials

Education

  • The University of Texas School of Law, J.D., 2024

    Order of the Coif

    – with honors

    – Townes-Rice Scholar

  • The University of Texas at Austin, B.B.A., 2020

    with highest honors in Canfield Business Honors and Finance

    – University Honors, all semesters

Admissions

  • Texas 2024

Professional Activities

  • Houston Bar Association
  • Houston Young Lawyers Association
  • South Asian Bar Association of Houston

Publications

“Out of Style: How Greenwashing Litigation is Shaking Up the Fashion Industry,” Texas Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 54-2, Pg. 41, 2024