Kathleen O Currey

Practice Areas

Financial Services

Manufacturing

Professional Services

Commercial Finance

Restructuring & Bankruptcy

Career

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.

Professional Memberships

Fellow, American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers (2024)

Serves on the Firm's Executive, Partnership (Chair), and Recruiting Committees

Chair (2007–2021) and co-chair (2022) of the Firm’s Diversity Committee

Member, State Bar of Georgia

Member, State Bar of South Carolina (inactive)

Member, American Bar Association (Business Law Section)

State Bar of Georgia Diversity Program Steering Committee (vice chair 2015-2018, chair 2019-2020)

Publications

Presiding and Co-Presenter, "Fundamentals of Lender Finance," State Bar of Georgia Secured Lending Seminar, March 2, 2023

Moderator, State Bar of Georgia Secured Lending Seminar, February 2022

Presentation: Lien and Debt Subordinations and Intercreditor Agreements, November 17, 2021

Presentation: Collateral Analysis – Beware of the “Gotchas,” November 10, 2021

Co-author and Presenter, "Enforceability of Intercreditor Agreements in Bankruptcy: Maximizing Recovery for First and Second Lienholders," October 2021, Strafford Webinar

Presentation: Lien and Debt Subordinations and Intercreditor Agreements, October 13, 2021

Presentation: Collateral Analysis – Beware of the “Gotchas” - Part I, August 25, 2021

Panelist, Commercial Lending Panel, Emory University School of Law Banking and Financial Law Society, March 2021

Panelist, Ethics and Professionalism CLE regarding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, State Bar of Georgia Bankruptcy Law Section, February 2021

Moderator, State Bar of Georgia Diversity Program's annual Fall Learning Lab: Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice, December 2020

Co-author, "Enforceability of Intercreditor Agreements in Bankruptcy: Maximizing Recovery for First and Second Lienholders," August 2020, Strafford Webinar

Presiding, State Bar of Georgia Secured Lending Seminar, March 2020