Kiran Vakamudi
Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002
Kiran is a senior associate in the Restructuring and Reorganization practice group and is based in the Firm’s Houston office. His practice focuses primarily on bankruptcy and financial restructuring matters, including representations of debtors, creditors, investors, and other interested parties in chapter 11 bankruptcies, out-of-court restructurings, and acquisitions. Prior to joining the Firm, Kiran clerked for the Honorable Marvin Isgur of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Experience Highlights
Riverstone Holdings LLC, its portfolio company, Talen Energy Corporation (TEC), and TEC’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Cumulus Growth Holdings LLC in the chapter 11 cases of TEC’s wholly-owned subsidiary Talen Energy Supply, LLC, which involved key settlements that paved the way for a consensual reorganization of Talen’s legacy power generation business and the Cumulus data center and cryptomining growth initiatives and allowed Riverstone to retain material equity positions in both TEC and Cumulus Growth
Rockall Energy and its subsidiaries in a chapter 11 sales process in which substantially all of the company’s operating assets were sold to Formentera Partners Fund I, LP pursuant to a prepackaged chapter 11 plan with a dual-track sale and back-stop equitization process that was confirmed within 83 days of commencing the chapter 11 cases
Jonah Energy in an out-of-court restructuring involving a deleveraging of the company’s balance sheet by approximately $580 million through a rights offering, tender offer, and redemption of non-tendered notes, together with an amended and restated credit agreement of Jonah’s $750 million credit facility
Unit Corporation, a diversified, publicly-traded energy company engaged in oil and natural gas exploration and production, contract drilling, and midstream services, and its affiliates in connection with its prearranged chapter 11 cases deleveraging the company by approximately $650 million in a debt-for-equity transaction with its subordinated noteholders
California Resources Corporation and certain of its affiliates, as company co-counsel, in their pre-negotiated chapter 11 cases filed in Houston, Texas
Lilis Energy in an in-court sale process in which substantially all of the company’s operating assets were sold to Ameredev Texas LLC as part of its chapter 11 cases involving approximately $400 million in total liabilities plus the confirmation of a chapter 11 plan in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas
An ad hoc group first lien term lenders, as co-counsel, in the chapter 11 cases of Neiman Marcus Group LTD, LLC filed in Houston, Texas
Credentials
- University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2017 (Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal)
- Texas A&M University, B.S., Biology, 2004
- Judicial clerk to The Honorable Marvin Isgur, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, 2017-2019
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law (Houston), 2025
- Texas
- InsightMarch 30, 2022
V&E Restructuring & Reorganization Update