About Lindsey
Lindsey practices in the firm’s Banking and Real Estate Law Practice Sections, focusing on corporate and real estate lending for national, regional and community financial institutions as well as private equity funds. Lindsey primarily closes new commercial, real estate and construction loans, but after the financial crisis of 2008, part of her practice has evolved to also include workouts, forbearance agreements and loan restructurings.
Representative Experience:
Representing a national financial institution in various low-income housing construction loans in the Mississippi delta, Alabama, and Georgia. These loans require negotiation of subordination provisions with local housing finance authorities and compliance with federal low-income housing financing regulations.
Representing a private equity fund in several stages of mezzanine financing provided to a Southeast regional employment services company used for such company’s acquisition of new business lines. This deal included an equity piece for the lender as well.
Representing a regional bank in a construction loan for a new hotel property in Chattanooga. This loan raises various franchise issues as well as a complicated loan advance structure.
Representing a community bank in improving its collateral position on a troubled loan by modifying the loan terms and creating and perfecting new security interests in the Borrower’s many equity interests in real property ventures in the metro Nashville area. This extensive modification requires digging deeply into complex and numerous corporate structuring and consent issues.
Lindsey earned her J.D., cum laude, in 2007 from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she served as articles editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law. Lindsey received a B.S., magna cum laude, with High Honors in Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Georgia Honors Program in 2004.
Lindsey is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and plans to take the Tennessee bar in February, 2012.
What was your first job?
Filing at my dad’s law firm
What are your hobbies?
SEC football, trying new restaurants, tennis, golf
What advice would you give to a young student in law school?
Take your friendships as seriously as you take your schoolwork
What is your favorite lawyer joke?
Arguing with a lawyer is kind of like mud wrestling with a pig; after awhile you realize the pig actually enjoys it.
How do you spend your weekend?
Outside and with friends whenever possible