Cindy, a member of the US Finance Group, assists electric cooperatives and other energy clients with wide array of financing transactions, including traditional corporate finance transactions to financing of renewable energy projects.
Her work includes mortgage indentures, secured credit facilities, unsecured bilateral and syndicated credit facilities, direct and agented private placements, government-guaranteed financings, tax-exempt bond transactions, taxable capital markets transactions, and lease financings of renewable projects. Cindy also advises clients with respect to Rural Utilities Service (RUS) regulatory and loan program requirements, and provides general finance and corporate representation.
- Represented a transmission company in a debt assumption and financing pertaining to the acquisition of a high voltage transmission system connecting to CAISO. Subsequently, Cindy worked with this same borrower in refinancing such acquisition financing.
- Closed more than $5 billion in RUS-guaranteed Federal Financing Bank loans for electric cooperatives, including negotiating and incorporating streamlining changes into the RUS loan documentation. Such streamlining changes have reduced RUS regulatory oversight and increased operational flexibility for electric cooperative borrowers.
- Represented multiple electric cooperatives (both generation and transmission cooperatives and distribution cooperatives) in the adoption of first mortgage bond indentures in replacement of existing mortgage instruments. Such mortgage indentures provide the electric cooperative issuers with greater access to a diversity of capital sources.
- Represented a natural gas marketer in negotiating an $80 million senior secured revolving credit facility with a syndicate of lenders.
- Represented an electric generation and transmission cooperative in a $600 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility with a syndicate of lenders.
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of energy transactions: conventional power (2023)
- Recognized by Chambers USA: Guide to Leading Business Lawyers in the area of energy (2016-2023)
- Featured in 2008 Atlanta Business Chronicle “Dealmakers” edition for role in $1.3 billion bond offering for an electric cooperative
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Atlanta Bar Association
- Georgia
Honorable Frank M. Hull, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- B.A., First Honor Graduate, summa cum laude, University of Georgia
- J.D., summa cum laude, University of Georgia School of Law,
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