Patrick K. Cameron

• Served as maritime counsel in connection with the construction and charter financing of the first U.S. built Jones Act wind farm vessel.

• Served as maritime counsel in connection with $580,000,000 synthetic lease financing (both construction and permanent) of two (2) to be built LNG carriers to be flagged in the Marshall Islands.

• Served as counsel to a national bank in connection with its $27,000,000 construction and ultimate bareboat charter financing of various crew transport vessels for a U.S. wind farm operator.

• Served as counsel to a U.S. regional bank in connection with the sale, repurchase, reflagging, and bareboat chartering of a 2015-built bulk carrier flagged in the Republic of Liberia.

• Served as counsel to a U.S. regional bank in connection with its $47,000,000 refinancing of a fleet of U.S. flagged tugs and barges.

• Served as special maritime counsel to a syndicate of U.S. lenders in connection with their $587,500,000 refinancing/restructuring of debt owed by one of their customers using a pre-packaged Chapter 11 filing to do so.

• Served as counsel to a U.S. financial institution in connection with its purchase and bareboat chartering of various double-hulled caustic service tank barges operating in the U.S. and Gulf of Mexico.

• Served as transactional counsel in connection with the purchase by several local and regional banks of various railcar lease portfolios.

• Served as special maritime counsel to a major national bank in connection with a $250 million nationally syndicated revolving credit facility for an East Coast based tug and barge operator.

• Served as maritime counsel to a global financial services conglomerate in connection with numerous vessel financings with customers throughout the U.S. that included both construction and permanent financing loans with an aggregate value between $150 million – $250 million.

• Served as transactional counsel to a multi-national provider of goods and services to the nuclear power industry in connection with its acquisition of various companies and its joint venture arrangement with a large crane manufacturer.

• Served as transactional counsel to a $300 million private equity mezzanine fund in connection with various financings, including recapitalization of a large government contractor in the Washington, D.C., area; acquisition of the stock of a Massachusetts manufacturer of large industrial dryers; and acquisition of the assets and certain liabilities of the automotive division of a large engineering / manufacturing company in St. Paul, Minnesota.

• Served as transactional counsel to various national banks providing acquisition, construction and permanent financing to various health care entities, home health providers and nursing home operators.

• Represented the administrative agent and lead lender in connection with the default by two borrowers of their obligations to a syndicate of lenders in connection with a $141,975,000 senior secured credit facility.

• Represented a regional bank in connection with the default by an entity borrower and its various guarantors in connection with a $40,000,000 senior secured term loan facility.

• Represented a regional bank in connection with the default by an entity borrower and its guarantor of various loans secured by certain marine assets.

• Represented a regional bank in connection with the workout and restructuring of approximately $75,000,000 in various real estate loans.

Professional Memberships

• Member – American Bar Association
• Fellow – American Bar Foundation
• Member – Maryland State Bar Association
• Member – Equipment Leasing and Finance Association
• Member – Maritime Law Association of the United States
  • Marine Finance Committee
    • Past Secretary
• Member – Turnaround Management Association

Honoraries

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America^®, Banking & Finance Law (2011 – 2025), Litigation - Banking & Finance, Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law (2012 – 2025); Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law (2013 – 2025); Admiralty and Maritime Law, Commercial Finance Law, Equipment Finance Law (2023 – 2025)
• Named the Best Lawyers^® 2024 Admiralty and Maritime Law "Lawyer of the Year" in Baltimore
• Named Best Lawyers^® Litigation - Banking & Finance "Lawyer of the Year" in Baltimore (2015, 2021, 2022)
• Listed in Maryland Super Lawyers, Banking (2010, 2012 – 2013, 2015 – 2018); Business and Transactions (2014 – 2015) 
• Listed in Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers – Corporate/M&A (Maryland) (2010 – 2016)
• Listed as one of the top 40 attorneys in Maryland, Maryland’s Legal Elite, SmartCEO Magazine (2005)
• Listed in SmartLawyers by SmartCEO Magazine (2009)
• AV^® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

• Baker Donelson Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 Listing (August 15, 2024)
• Baker Donelson Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America^® 2024 Listing (August 17, 2023)
• Baker Donelson Attorneys Earn Recognition in The Best Lawyers in America® 2023 Listing (August 18, 2022)
• Baker Donelson Attorneys Earn Recognition in The Best Lawyers in America® 2022 Listing (August 19, 2021)
• Baker Donelson Top-Listed in the Nation in Six Practice Areas in The Best Lawyers in America^® 2021 Listing (August 20, 2020)