Russell B. Taylor

Associate

(405) 552-2256
russell.taylor@mcafeetaft.com
Oklahoma City

Overview

As a member of the firm’s Banking and Financial Institutions Group, Russell Taylor primarily represents banks, agents, financial institutions, and private lenders in syndicated and bilateral credit facilities.  He also advises banking clients on a broad range of business restructuring, loan workout, bankruptcy, and creditor’s rights matters.

As part of his lending services practice, Russell advises lenders in the structuring, negotiation, documentation, and modification of debt financing transactions across all industries, including energy, real estate, and construction and development.

He also has extensive experience advising financial institutions on bank regulatory and other financial regulatory matters, including compliance and other strategic regulatory decisions.

Russell’s achievements have earned him inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America (banking and finance law; banking and finance litigation; bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law; bankruptcy litigation; mergers and acquisitions law; real estate law) and Oklahoma Super Lawyers’ list of “Oklahoma Rising Stars,” which recognizes the state’s up-and-coming attorneys.

Representative Experience

  • Represented regional and national lenders in the extension of over $1 billion in credit annually to finance real estate, construction, and development projects.
  • Represented an Oklahoma-based bank and national private equity company in the creation and implementation of a multi-level flow-through equity fund.
  • Represented national capital markets group in the placement of complex debt facilities and the repackaging of those facilities into financial products.
  • Represented regional lender in syndicated oil and gas credit facilities for both E&P and midstream companies.
  • Represented national lender in troubled asset workout for real estate and construction loans in nine different states across the United States.

Honors and Awards

  • Selected by peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America (2026–Present)
  • Named to Oklahoma Super Lawyers’ list of “Oklahoma Rising Stars” (2025–Present)
  • Named NextGen Under 30 honoree by the NextGen Foundation (2020)

Professional Organizations and Memberships

  • Oklahoma County Bar Association
  • Oklahoma Bar Association (Commercial Law and Financial Institutions Section)
  • Oklahoma, 2018
  • J.D., University of Oklahoma, 2018
    • Business and Transaction Law Certificate; Treasurer, OU Law Board of Governors; Treasurer, Business Law Society; Semi-Finalist, BOA Negotiation Competition
  • B.A. (Journalism and Mass Communication), University of Oklahoma, 2013