Hilary P. Jordan

Hilary P. Jordan

Hil Jordan is a partner in Kilpatrick Stockton's Atlanta office and is the leader of the Firm's Finance team.

Mr. Jordan focuses his practice in leveraged finance transactions. He regularly represents agents, lenders and borrowers in syndicated and non-syndicated leverage finance transactions and he has extensive experience in handling financings for borrowers in the building materials, healthcare, logistics support, media and entertainment, and timberlands areas. He also handles a number of different types of leveraged finance transactions, including asset-based loans, cash flow loans, second lien transactions, mezzanine debt transactions, letter of credit facilities, trade receivable securitizations, debtor in possession financings, and interest rate hedge transactions.

Mr. Jordan has served as chair of the State Bar of Georgia's Business Law Section (1998-99) and he also served as chair of that section's Uniform Commercial Code Committee (1996-97). He also served on the Executive Committee of the State Bar of Georgia's Business Law Section (1996-2001).

He has spoken on commercial lending and other finance law topics at seminars sponsored by the Practicing Law Institute, the Georgia Bankers Association, the American Association of Equipment Lessors, Lorman Education Services, and the Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education. He was a co-author of Georgia Jurisprudence: Uniform Commercial Code (Lawyers Cooperative, 1995).

Selected Experience

· Represented a major U.S. financial institution, as co-agent and lender, in connection with the provision of a U.S.$1.5 billion Chapter 11 debtor in possession credit financing facility for a national cable television company.

· Represented a major U.S. financial institution, as agent and lender, in connection with the provision of a U.S.$380 million syndicated bankruptcy exit financing facility for a major U.S. consumer goods manufacturer.

· Represented a major U.S. financial institution, as administrative agent and lender, in connection with the provision of a U.S.$220 million of senior secured syndicated credit facilities to a national publisher of trade magazines.

· Represented a major U.S. financial institution in connection with its provision of over a total of U.S.$200 million of New Market Tax Credit-supported financings for the acquisition of over 1 million acres of timberlands located in the northeast, northwest and southeast U.S.

· Represented a major U.S. financial institution, as agent and lender, in connection with the provision of a U.S.$200 million syndicated Chapter 11 debtor in possession trade receivable securitization facility for a major U.S. consumer goods manufacturer.

· Represented a major U.S. financial institution in connection with its provision of a U.S.$156 million Chapter 11 debtor-in-possession revolving credit facility for a national trucking company.

· Represented a major U.S. financial institution, as administrative agent and lender, in connection with the provision of U.S.$125 million of syndicated credit facilities for the owner/operator of a chain of southwest U.S. network-affiliated television stations.

· Represented a major U.S. financial institution, as administrative agent and lender, in connection with the provision of U.S.$113 million senior secured syndicated credit facilities for the purchase of a southeastern U.S. concrete supply company.

· Represented a major U.S. telecommunications company in connection with its obtaining €2 billion in syndicated credit facilities to finance its European affiliate's acquisition of European wireless licenses.

· Represented a U.S.-based multinational manufacturer of commercial carpet products in connection with its obtaining U.S.$300 million of syndicated, multi-currency and cross-border revolving credit facilities, U.S.$100 million trade receivable securitization facilities as well as various related interest rate swap transactions.

Background

· Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.

· Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® (2005-2008 editions).

· Listed in Chambers USA (2006-2007 editions).

· AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

· Listed as a Georgia Super Lawyer® in Law & Politics (2004-2007 editions).

· Member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter of the American Red Cross (and member of that board's Executive Committee).

Fellow, American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.

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