Chris A. Underwood

• Represented a national bank as administrative agent in a $250 million syndicated revolving credit facility for a leading flat-rolled steel producer.
• Represented a national bank in providing a $50 million senior secured credit facility to a provider of construction and home improvement loans, counseling the bank through complex negotiations with existing private equity and junior capital lenders.
• Represented a national bank in providing a $40 million revolving credit facility to a leading ophthalmic pharmaceutical provider.
• Represented a national bank as the agent in providing a $15 million senior secured revolving credit facility to a leading provider of inheritance advances.
• Represented a national bank, as the agent and lender, in providing a $150 million facility to a steel manufacturing company specializing in rail, energy, and other industrial end markets.
• Represented a national bank as the administrative agent in providing a $75 million split-lien revolving credit facility to an energy services company.
• Represented a private debt fund in the refinancing of a financial services company’s existing indebtedness with a $137.8 million term loan, delayed draw term loan, and revolving credit senior secured facility while simultaneously closing on an acquisition for a subsidiary.
• Represented a private debt fund in providing a syndicated senior secured credit facilities in the aggregate principal amount of $675 million to refinance the existing debt of the borrower, fund future M&A, and for working capital and general corporate purposes.
• Represented a national bank in a $100 million asset-based revolving credit facility for a global tobacco supplier.
• Represented a private credit lender as the administrative agent to a $60 million term and revolving credit facility with a manufacturer of heavy-duty construction and excavation equipment.
• Represented a Canadian global software company in obtaining $118 million credit facilities in its acquisition of a leading provider of integrated library systems and library technology solutions and its subsidiaries.

Chris Underwood represents private credit funds, commercial banks, and specialty lenders in middle-market cash-flow and asset-based credit facilities. He focuses his practice on sponsor-backed leveraged acquisitions, traditional ABL facilities, lender finance facilities, and receivables financings across a variety of industries, including technology, health care, franchise, retail, and manufacturing.

Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business has recognized Chris in the Georgia “Banking and Finance” category.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• Mercer University (J.D., 2012)
• University of Georgia (A.B., 2006)

Memberships