Kevin Paul Lewis — Co-Managing Partner of Houston Office at Sidley Austin LLP

Mr. Kevin Paul Lewis serves as Co-Managing Partner of Houston Office at Sidley Austin LLP. Mr. Lewis serves as Lawyer and Partner of Vinson & Elkins LLP. Mr. Lewis served as a Partner of Houston Office at Sidley Austin LLP since March 2015. He served as Judicial clerk to The Honorable Jerre S. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1986 to 1987. Mr. Lewis admitted to practice in Texas from 1986 and New York from 1988. Mr. Lewis is an active member of Corporate Finance and Securities Group of Vinson & Elkins LLP. He is a member of Project Finance and Development Practice Group of Vinson & Elkins LLP. He was a Member of the Mergers, Acquisitions & Capital Markets group and led its Corporate Governance and Compliance group, as well as its Airlines and Aviation practice. Mr. Lewis practiced for many years in Singapore and in New York City and he serves as the liaison partner for Asian offices and lateral hiring partner of Vinson & Elkins LLP. Mr. Lewis's clients have included boards of directors and audit committees, major commercial airlines, oilfield service companies, large electric retail providers, venture capital firms and their portfolio investment companies, investment banking houses, developers and owners of infrastructure projects and other financial institutions and energy industry companies. He has significant experience in capital markets financings, including IPOs, ADRs, 144A and Reg S securities, equipment pass-through certificates, mortgage-backed securities and other asset securitizations. He also has extensive experience in venture capital transactions, private placements, mergers and acquisitions and other structured financings (including aircraft sale-leaseback and other leveraged lease transactions). He has represented developers and lenders in numerous Asian infrastructure projects, including the Corridor Project, Project Finance magazine's 1997 Indonesian Deal of the Year. Mr. Lewis represented numerous public company boards of directors and audit committees in connection with Sarbanes-Oxley Act matters, board and committee structure and other corporate governance issues. Mr. Lewis represented several mainline and regional commercial airlines in connection with regional airlines service agreements, a major commercial airline in the largest-ever IPO for a US airline and many other airline capital markets transactions. Mr. Lewis represented several small-cap companies through Chapter 11 restructurings, represented an international infrastructure company in connection with the acquisition and disposition of companies and assets, represented the underwriters in connection with the issuance of utility regulatory asset-backed transition bonds for a domestic utility, represented venture capital investors and their portfolio investment companies. Mr. Lewis represented a major commercial airline in connection with the repurchase and recapitalization of its securities in a transaction with a major stockholder. Mr. Lewis represented the Indonesian subsidiary of an international energy company in connection with its initial public offering in the U.S. capital markets. Mr. Lewis represented the first Fortune 500 company to list its shares on the Stock Exchange of Singapore Worked closely with the Indonesian securities regulatory administration to develop rules, recently adopted, to permit non-Indonesian companies to list Indonesian depositary receipts on the Jakarta Stock Exchange Represented the issuer of more than US$700 million of variable-rate mortgage-backed securities. Mr. Lewis represented numerous issuers and underwriters in connection with equity and debt offerings, including ADRs, 144A securities and U.S. domestic offerings. Mr. Lewis represented developers and lenders in international project finance transactions, including the sponsors of a large international offshore gas development and cross-border pipeline transaction, including the structuring and financing aspects of the project. Mr. Lewis represented the issuer of equipment pass-through certificates to refinance approximately US$400 million of bridge debt incurred in connection with the leveraged lease of aircraft. Mr. Lewis worked extensively on behalf of project sponsors and international commercial banks in connection with the development and financing of gas processing facilities power plants (including gas, coal and hydroelectric projects) in Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and various provinces in China. Mr. Lewis represented a large Indonesian energy company in connection with a variety of projects in Indonesia, including the successful development of a large integrated gas/pipeline/power project in Indonesia and the development of gas/pipeline feedstock project in Southeast Asia. Mr. Lewis received J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986, B.A. in History and Economics from Yale University in 1983.