Ms. Jackson heads the Irell & Manella LLP debt finance practice.  She has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and closing complex debt transactions, including capital markets debt products, syndicated credit facilities, project finance transactions, cross-border and multinational debt transactions, regulated loans, derivatives transactions, acquisition financings, multi-tiered intercreditor arrangements, securitizations and structured finance transactions, leveraged and synthetic leases, convertible notes, second-lien notes, PIK notes, debt tender and exchange offers, recapitalizations, workouts and out-of-court debt restructurings.

Ms. Jackson joined Irell & Manella as a partner in February 1999.  She has served on the firm’s Executive Committee and serves on the firm's Opinion Committee.  Prior to joining Irell & Manella, Ms. Jackson was a member of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.  She joined WSGR in 1992, was elected to membership in 1995, and served as Co-Chair of the firm's Practice Committee.  Ms. Jackson was associated with Bingham Dana LLP from 1988 to 1992.

Ms. Jackson has been selected for inclusion in Southern California "Super Lawyers" by Los Angeles Magazine each year since 2004.

Representative Matters

Ms. Jackson represents borrowers, equity sponsors, commercial banks, investment banks, hedge funds, asset-based lenders, issuers, underwriters, bondholders, lessors, lessees, counterparties, trustees, financial advisors, expert opinion givers and other debt capital market participants in an extensive range of leveraged transactions.  Her significant transactions include:

• $9 billion in multiple offerings of senior notes by a communications company
• $2.4 billion total capital ($1.55 billion debt capital) combined offering for a construction project finance transaction
• $1.51 billion cross-border debt recapitalization for a manufacturing company
• $1.5 billion of senior second-lien notes for a communications company
• Restructuring $1.1 billion of senior debt for a telecommunications company
• $940 million in multiple offerings of senior notes by telecommunications company
• $654 million in face amount of senior PIK notes for a wireless data company
• $575 million in multiple tranches of asset-backed certificates for a financial services company
• $550 million in multiple offerings of senior notes for a real estate company
• $550 million of convertible notes for a manufacturing company
• $540 million development project finance restructuring
• $500 million convertible notes offering for a telecommunications company
• $436 million in face amount senior subordinated PIK notes for a technology company
• $400 million senior credit facility for a financial services company
• Post-default amendments to $400 million of senior notes for a restaurant chain
• $300 million revolving credit facility for a retail company
• Restructuring $300 million of unsecured international debt under multiple credit facilities for a technology company
• $260 million in leveraged leases for a technology manufacturing company, placement and restructuring
• $250 million regulated loan to a mutual fund company
• $243 million senior secured loans to a petroleum refining company
• Restructuring of $210 million of petroleum trading company senior secured debt
• $200 million credit facility and $100 million letter of credit facility for a retail company
• $200 million senior secured international acquisition financing for a technology company
• $200 million international acquisition financing for a financial and insurance services company
• $200 million note issuance and recapitalization of a financial services company
• Post-default amendments to $190 million of debt for a media company
• $170 million of subordinated notes for a healthcare company
• $150 million commercial paper conduit program for a financial services company
• $150 million leveraged recapitalization for a technology company
• $135 million syndicated credit for an energy company
• $135 million DIP loan for a telecommunications company in connection with restructuring $1.4 billion of debt
• $125 million in senior subordinated notes for a casino company
• $110 million senior secured loan and $6 million regulated loan for an energy company
• $95 million revolving credit and term loan facility for an energy company
• $95 million senior note and warrant offering for a technology company
• $90 million senior secured acquisition financing for a technology company
• Restructuring of $75 million of first mortgage notes for a casino company
• $70 million of senior notes for a technology company
• Restructuring of $55 million of senior secured debt of a cogeneration facility
• $50 million project finance transaction for a gas company

Professional Activities

• Fellow and Regent of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.
• Governor and Past President of the Financial Lawyers Conference.
• Past Chair, Secured Lending Subcommittee, Commercial Financial Services Committee, ABA Business Law Section.
• Co-Chair, Commercial Law and Practice Dictionary Task force.
• Co-Chair, Investment Securities Subcommittee of the ABA Business Law Section UCC Committee.
• Member, ABA Business Law Section Working Group on Negotiated Indenture Provisions.
• Past Chair, Scope Subcommittee of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee, ABA Business Law Section.
• Past Chair, California State Bar UCC Committee.
• Past Vice-Chair, Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California; and Past Legislative Chair of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California.
• Participated as an Official Observer to the revised Article 9 drafting process; appointed Chair of the Transactional Task Force on Asset Securitization.
• Past Adjunct Professor of Law at University of California, Hastings College of the Law, teaching Secured Transactions under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
• Guest lecturer, Stanford Law School, Secured Transactions.
• Author of several publications addressing such subjects as securitization of new asset types, statutory lien issues, software license financing and contracting out of the UCC.
• Frequent lecturer, panelist, and faculty member in programs addressing issues germane to debt finance, including security interests in intellectual property, asset securitization, current issues under UCC Articles 8 and 9, high yield finance, LBO finance, lender liability, recharacterization, workouts and restructurings.
• Recognized by Barclays PLC in an informal study as the top high yield issuers' counsel in the Silicon Valley.

Bar & Court Admissions

• 1988, Massachusetts; 1992, California