Cindy JK Davis

Practice Areas

Banking & Financial Services

Corporate

Finance

Food, Beverage & Agribusiness

Career

Cindy Davis Chairs the Banking and Financial Services Practice and focuses her practice on representing domestic and international banks, finance companies, hedge funds, private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers in complex financing transactions. She frequently represents lead arrangers and agents in structuring and underwriting syndicated loan transactions. Her typical transactions include U.S. and international asset-based and cash-flow secured and unsecured credit facilities, acquisition financings and other leveraged buyouts, and first and second lien credit facilities. Cindy also has experience in structuring complex credit transactions, including those involving multicurrency facilities and cross-border lending arrangements. Cindy’s finance practice ranges from middle-market club deals to multibillion-dollar investment-grade widely syndicated credit facilities. She has represented clients on financings in virtually every type of industry, including food and agribusiness, retail, health care, media/telecom, and gaming.

Concentrations:

Asset-based and cash flow financings

Acquisition financings, including leveraged buyouts, leveraged recapitalizations and going-private transactions

Cross-border lending arrangements and multi-currency credit facilities

First and second lien loans and unitranche facilities

Loan syndications

Investment grade bank and non-investment grade credit facilities

Debtor-in-possession financings and exit financings

Professional Memberships

Board Member, Zoo Atlanta, Leadership Council, Board of Directors, 2015-Present; Member, Leadership Council, 2012-2014

Board Member, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Board of Directors, 2000-2007

Member, State Bar of Georgia, Business Law Section

Member, The Florida Bar

Past President, The Women’s Finance Exchange, Atlanta Chapter

Publications

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2007-2022

Personal

J.D., with honors, University of Florida Levin College of Law, 1990

B.B.A., Accounting, cum laude, University of Massachusetts, 1987