- Represented the agent in a $250 million acquisition financing for a software company.
- Represented the agent in a $140 million acquisition financing for a software company.
- Represented the agent in a $135 million recapitalization for a software company.
- Represented the agent in a $55 million acquisition financing for a software company.
- Represented the agent in a $92 acquisition financing for a software company.
- Represented the agent in a $230 million acquisition financing for a software company.
- Represented the agent in a $200 million financing for a software company.
- Represented the agent in a $75 million financing for a software company.
- Represented the agent in a $45 million acquisition financing for a software company.
- Represented the agent in a $127 million take-private acquisition financing for a national restaurant chain.
Partner,
- Phone: +1 404 881 7586
- Email: chris.underwood@alston.com
Agents and lenders rely on Chris to guide them through their complex secured lending transactions.
- Represented the agent in a $180 million take-private acquisition financing for a national restaurant chain.
- Represented the agent in a $225 million debt restructuring for national restaurant chain.
- Represented the agent in a $130 million financing for a quick-service restaurant chain.
- Represented the agent in a $110 million financing for a franchisee of a national restaurant chain.
- Represented the agent in a $96 million financing for a franchisee of a national fitness club chain.
- Represented the agent in a $38 million growth financing for a new restaurant concept.
- Represented the agent in a $28 million acquisition financing of a new restaurant concept.
- Represented the agent in a $67 million debt restructuring for a restaurant and entertainment chain.
- Represented the agent in a $30 million debt restructuring of a regional restaurant chain.
- Represented the agent in a $105 million recapitalization of a manufacturing company.
- Represented the agent in a $65 million debt restructuring for a manufacturing company.
- Represented the agent in an $85 million preferred equity investment and acquisition financing to a propane and petroleum products distributor.
- Represented the agent in a $97 million financing to a financial services education and exam preparation company.
- Represented the agent in a $52 million financing to an online teacher certification company.
- Represented the agent in a $31 million growth financing for an outdoor advertising company.
- Represented the agent in a $88 million recapitalization for a security alarm company.
- Represented the agent in a $15 million second lien acquisition financing in the alarm security industry.
- Represented the agent in a $18.5 million Chapter 11 Debtor-in-Possession financing.
Chris Underwood represents private credit funds, asset management firms and commercial banks as agents and lenders in middle market cash-flow and asset-based credit facilities. He focuses his practice on complex domestic and international leveraged acquisitions, recapitalizations, restructurings, and growth and expansion credit facilities across a variety of industries, including technology, health care, franchise, restaurant, retail, security alarm, and manufacturing.
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
Education
- Mercer University (J.D., 2012)
- University of Georgia (A.B., 2006)
Memberships
- St. Anne’s Terrace, Inc., board of directors (2013-2022)
- State Bar of Georgia
- Atlanta Bar Association