Kathleen Currey is an attorney with deep experience representing both financial institutions and borrowers in secured lending and restructuring matters. She has helped her clients structure, negotiate, and close numerous complex transactions. Kathleen’s proactive and client-focused approach leads to excellent commercial outcomes in her deals.

Kathleen's deal experience includes syndicated loan facilities, asset-based financings, lender finance transactions and debtor-in-possession financings, and the negotiation of complex intercreditor and subordination agreements. Kathleen’s practice also includes representing administrative agents in syndicated loan facilities.

Kathleen is devoted to seeing her clients close commercial finance transactions on the terms needed for their businesses. The fact that she represents the interests of both lenders and sophisticated borrowers has given her a unique – and highly effective – perspective that leads to the efficient management and closing of financing deals. With her business-centric outlook and responsive nature, Kathleen ensures that her clients are best-positioned to close their deals in a way that fits their business needs.

  • Represented borrowers in connection with $2.3 billion senior secured first lien syndicated revolver and term loan facility, $675 million second lien syndicated term loan facility, and $280 million syndicated asset sale bridge term loan facility used to acquire media and communications assets.*
  • Represented Bank of America, N.A., as agent, in connection with a senior secured, asset-based, cross-border revolving credit and term loan facility provided to Modular Space Holdings, Inc. and affiliates, which engaged in the sale and leasing of temporary buildings and structures. The companies filed pre-arranged chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in Delaware, and the firm represented the agent bank in the pre-petition, post-petition, and exit financings.
  • Assisted a national bank, as agent, in documenting a syndicated senior secured cross-border credit facility to a lender finance company.
  • Represented Bank of America, N.A., as agent, in connection with chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Beaulieu Group, LLC, and its affiliates in the carpet manufacturing business. Representation involved the documentation and court approval of a $70 million debtor-in-possession asset based lending facility to support a marketing and sale process under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, resulting in the sale of the company as a going concern and payment of all secured claims in full.
  • Represented a national bank, as agent, in a senior secured asset based lending facility to a staffing company, including the negotiation of a complex first lien/second lien intercreditor arrangement.
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  • Co-Author and Presenter, "Enforceability of Intercreditor Agreements in Bankruptcy: Maximizing Recovery for First and Second Lienholders," August 2018, Strafford Webinar 
  • Author and Presenter, "Bankruptcy Issues in Intercreditor Agreements," February 2014, Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia
  • Presenter, Essentials of Commercial Lending Webinar - Debt Subordination Agreements and Syndication Issues, Spring 2011
  • Author and Presenter, "Recent Developments in Debt and Lien Subordination Agreements," February 2011, Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia
  • Co-Author and Presenter, "Making Sense of Lien and Debt Subordination Agreements," February 2010, Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia
  • Co-Author and Presenter, "Hidden Dangers of Accounts Receivable and Inventory Lendings and Secret Liens," February 2008, Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia
  • Author and Presenter, "Intercreditor/Structuring Issues Arising in First Lien/Second Lien Transactions," October 2005, Lorman Education Services
  • Author and Presenter, "Personal Property Collateral Documents," October 2003 and October 2004, Lorman Education Services
  • Author and Presenter, "Perfection of Security Interests," October 2001 and 2002, Lorman Education Services

  • Financial Services
  • Manufacturing
  • Professional Services
  • Commercial Finance
  • Restructuring & Bankruptcy

  • Emory University School of Law (J.D., with distinction, 1993)
  • University of South Carolina (B.S., Business Administration - Finance, 1986)

  • Listed in the 2018 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business for Banking and Finance (2013-present)
  • Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America®  in Banking and Finance Law (2016-2018)

  • Serves on the Firm's Administrative, Diversity, Partnership, and Recruiting Committees
  • Member, State Bar of Georgia
  • Member, State Bar of South Carolina (inactive)
  • Member, American Bar Association (Business Law Section)
  • Chair, State Bar of Georgia Diversity Program Steering Committee (Vice Chair 2015-2018)
  • Secretary, Board of Directors, Tate Mountain Corporation (2012-2014)
  • Member, Board of Trustees, and the Development Committee of the Board of Trustees, of The Children's School, an independent elementary school in Atlanta (2004-2011)
  • Volunteer Fundraiser, The Paideia School (2009-2017)

  • Georgia
  • South Carolina (inactive)