
Joseph T. McKernan
Practices & Industries
Admissions
- New York
Education
Cornell University, A.B.
University of Texas at Austin, M.S.
Fordham University School of Law, J.D.
Joe counsels lenders, administrative agents, borrowers, investors, and sponsors, including public and private companies, financial institutions, hedge funds, and private equity funds on numerous syndicated and single-lender credit facilities and various types of secured and unsecured, senior, and mezzanine financing transactions. Joe also represents investment funds, independent power producers, utilities, energy marketers, and traders in a wide range of energy derivative transactions and other energy transactions.
Prior to joining Hodgson Russ, Joe served as of counsel in the New York City office of an international law firm, where he handled the following significant matters:
- Represented an oil and gas services company, as borrower, in a syndicated $375 million senior secured revolving credit facility
- Represented a nuclear fuel enrichment company in a $2 billion term loan in connection with the U.S. Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program
- Represented a wind turbine manufacturer in an investment of an offshore wind farm project
- Represented a bank, as senior lender, in a three-tier mezzanine financing of a portfolio of real properties
- Represented an independent power provider, as borrower, in a $500 million acquisition financing of a portfolio of peaking generation facilities
- Represented an independent power provider, as borrower, in a $1.165 billion acquisition financing of a coal-fired power plant
- Represented a media company, as debtor-in-possession, in a pre-pack restructuring of $925 million, first lien/second lien credit facilities
- Represented a bank, as arranger and agent, in a syndicated $100 million senior secured credit facility for a telecommunications company
- Represented a bank, as arranger and agent, in a syndicated $265 million senior secured credit facility for an oil exploration company
- Represented a bank, as arranger and agent, in a syndicated $100 million senior secured credit facility for an NBA franchise
- Represented a financial company, as a second lien lender, in the chapter 11 case of an automobile parts company
- Represented a financial company, as a second lien lender, in connection with a $65 million second lien credit facility for a telecommunications company
Joe is fluent in Korean.
Experience
- $226.6 million CMBS Mortgage and Mezzanine Debt for Multistate Hotel Portfolio
- $300 Million Trade Receivables Financing
- Establishment of Equipment Leasing and Financing Programs for Equipment Vendor Client
- Establishment of Dodd-Frank-Compliant Reporting and Record-Keeping Protocols for Cross-Border Corporate Client
- Representation of Banking Client in a Syndicated $100 Million Asset-Based Loan Facility to a Major Clothing Designer
- Representation of Corporate Borrower in a Syndicated $22 Million Asset Based Loan Facility
- Represented Banking Client in a $10 Million Asset-Based Loan Facility to a Beauty Care Company
- Represented Banking Client in a $15 Million Asset-Based Loan Facility to a Footwear Distributor
- Represented Banking Client in a $5.5 Million Asset-Based Loan Facility to a Real Estate Investment Company
In the News
- April 25, 2012
- Hodgson Nabs Ex-Jones Day Energy Pro For RE, Finance GroupLaw360, April 25, 2012
Publications
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, January 13, 2021
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, January 6, 2021
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, December 17, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, December 1, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, November 23, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, October 28, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, October 23, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, October 21, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, October 19, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, October 16, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, September 22, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, September 17, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, September 10, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Environmental and Renewable Energy Alert, August 20, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Environmental Alert, August 12, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, August 6, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Environmental Alert, August 6, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Environmental Alert, July 28, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, July 28, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, July 24, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, July 20, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Environmental Alert, July 1, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Brownfield Redevelopment Alert, June 29, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, June 19, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, June 12, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, June 9, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Banking & Finance Alert, June 4, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, June 3, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, June 2, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Banking & Finance Alert, May 26, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, May 26, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, May 20, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Banking & Finance Alert, May 18, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy and Construction Alert, May 15, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, May 15, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Banking & Finance Alert, May 13, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, May 6, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Environmental Alert, April 27, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, April 27, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Banking & Finance Alert, April 24, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Banking & Finance Alert, April 24, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, April 23, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, April 21, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, April 20, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, April 16, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Environmental Alert, April 14, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Banking & Finance Alert, April 10, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, April 9, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Banking & Finance Alert, April 8, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Environmental Alert, April 6, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, April 3, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, April 2, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, April 1, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Environmental and Brownfield Redevelopment Alert, April 1, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Banking & Finance Alert, March 30, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Banking & Finance Alert, March 30, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, March 30, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Environmental Alert, March 27, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Environmental Alert, March 26, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Banking & Finance Alert, March 24, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, February 26, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, February 24, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, February 10, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, February 4, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, January 30, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy and Municipal Alert, January 29, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, January 22, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Environmental and Renewable Energy Alert, January 21, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Cross-Border Finance Alert, January 8, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy and Muncipal Law Alert, January 6, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, January 6, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, December 19, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy and Muncipal Law Alert, December 16, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, December 12, 2019
- Petition is first move towards New York’s aggressive goal of 6,000 Megawatts of solar by 2025Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, December 4, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, December 2, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Environmental Alert, November 27, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Environmental, Municipal, and Public Finance Alert, November 12, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, November 6, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, November 1, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, October 31, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, October 18, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy and Environmental Alert, October 8, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, October 7, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Brownfield Redevelopment and Renewable Energy Alert, June 18, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Environmental Alert, May 7, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Renewable Energy Alert, May 6, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Environmental Alert, April 22, 2019
- Hodgson Russ Environmental Alert, April 18, 2019
- Renewable Energy Alert, February 13, 2019
- Banker Bulletin Alert, January 31, 2019
- Increased Regulatory Requirements and Water Infrastructure Investment Likely in 2019Environmental Alert, December 21, 2018
- Renewable Energy Alert, November 20, 2018
- Cross-Border Finance Alert, November 13, 2018
- Finance & Bankruptcy Alert, October 20, 2017
- Lawyers Weekly, August 28, 2012