Practice Expertise

  • Banking and Finance
  • Corporate Finance-NEW
  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Energy Finance and Securitization

Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate Finance-NEW
  • Energy Finance and Securitization
  • Accounting Firm Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Finance and Restructuring
  • Fund Finance
  • Lending Services
  • LIBOR Transition
  • Servicing Rights Financing and Securitization
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WSG Practice Industries

WSG Leadership

  • Banking & Finance Group - Member

Profile

Kim’s practice focuses on the representation of corporate borrowers in both cash-flow and asset-based financings.

Focusing on the representation of public company and private equity portfolio borrowers in cash-flow and asset-based financings, Kim partners with CFOs, treasurers, controllers and in-house counsel on the negotiation and documentation of revolving, bridge and term loan facilities, including acquisition financings, recapitalizations and “going private” transactions. Additionally, she represents residential mortgage servicers and lenders in financing servicing advance receivables and servicing rights. With over twenty-five years of experience advising borrowers across all industries, Kim is adept at quarterbacking a team to handle all aspects of financing transactions, from negotiating term sheets, engagement documents and credit agreements to facilitating due diligence, disclosures and other closing mechanics.

With a practical approach and even demeanor, Kim also guides clients through amendments and waivers, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, troubled loans, workouts and restructurings.

Prior to joining the firm, Kim served as a judicial clerk to the Hon. A. Christian Compton of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Kim was named among Profiles in Diversity Journal’s 2018 Women Worth Watching, Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s 2017 “Leaders in the Law,” Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s 2010 "Influential Women of Virginia" and Virginia Business’ 2010 Legal Elite (Business Law) and was selected as a “Rising Star” in banking by Virginia Super Lawyers in both 2007 and 2008. She was also a member of Leadership Metro Richmond’s Class of 2013.

In 2022, Kim received the YWCA Richmond Outstanding Woman Award in Law & Government and the MLK RVA Drum Major Service Award.

Relevant Experience

  • Represented public company lawn and garden products and services provider in $2.3 billion secured multi-currency revolving and term credit agreement
  • Represented underground and surface coal mining company in secured $550 million term and $225 million revolving loan facilities
  • Represented public specialty chemical company in $320 million secured term and revolving loan facilities to finance a strategic acquisition
  • Represented private equity fund in $160 million financing secured by 36 golf courses located throughout the United States
  • Represented public company wholesale foodservice distributor in $2.4 billion asset-based revolving and term credit facilities
  • Represented public company leader in acquiring and collecting non-performing loans in $1.5 billion secured revolving and term credit facilities
  • Represented public REITs in credit facilities to be used for acquisitions of full-service hotel properties in the “upper upscale” segment, office buildings and multi-family housing complexes
  • Represents residential mortgage servicers and Wall Street and private equity lenders in revolving and term loans secured by Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and private label mortgage service rights and excess spread receivables
  • Represents private equity funds in multi-tranche financings, including acquisition financings and “going private” transactions and dividend recapitalizations
  • Represents borrowers on restructurings, work-outs and forbearance agreements
  • Represented public company apparel retailer in negotiating credit card merchant services agreements for retailer’s entire Southeast Asia operations
  • Represented public company consumer products retailer in negotiating a private label and co-branded credit card program agreement
  • Represents companies in the negotiation of equipment leases
  • Conducts analysis of and advises clients on debt covenants and impact on operations, planning and strategic transactions
  • Advises clients on best practices for negotiating and monitoring compliance with credit agreements

Bar Admissions

  • Maryland
  • Virginia

Education
BA, University of North Carolina, Political Science, 1992

Areas of Practice

  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate Finance-NEW
  • Energy Finance and Securitization
  • Accounting Firm Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Finance and Restructuring
  • Fund Finance
  • Lending Services
  • LIBOR Transition
  • Servicing Rights Financing and Securitization

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
  • Represented public specialty chemical company in $320 million secured term and revolving loan facilities to finance, in part, the strategic acquisition of a chemical manufacturer.
  • Represented public REIT in a $150 million revolving credit facility to be used for acquisitions of full service hotel properties in the “upper upscale” segment.
  • Represented a private equity portfolio company in a dividend recapitalization awarded the “Refinancing of the Year” by the Global M&A Network in 2009.
  • Represented a private equity fund in financing its acquisition under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code of a supplier to the recreational vehicle industry. The financing was recognized as the 2008 “Financing Deal of the Year” by The M&A Advisor.
  • Represented private equity funds in multi-tranche acquisition financings for “going private” transactions.
  • Represents residential mortgage loan servicers in revolving and term loans secured by mortgage servicing rights and excess spread receivables. 
  • Represents Wall Street and private equity lenders providing financing collateralized by Ginnie Mae, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mac and private label MSRs.
  • Represented a public telecommunications company in obtaining DIP and exit financing in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding involving assets and liabilities approaching $1 billion.
  • Represented parent company in secured $19 million DIP loan to its subsidiary to facilitate a proposed bankruptcy 363 sale.
  • Represented underwriters in restructuring $400 million of senior and subordinated debt for the Dulles Greenway toll road project.
  • Represented sponsors in $350 million bridge/toll road project (Pocahontas Parkway) and other transportation projects structured under the Virginia Public-Private Transportation Act.
  • Represents companies in connection with treasury contracts and related cash management arrangements.
  • Represents borrowers in routine loan administration, including compliance inquiries, waivers, amendments and consents.


Professional Associations
  • Member, Virginia Bar Association and Richmond Bar Association
  • Leadership Metro Richmond, Class of 2013
  • President, Board of Directors, YWCA Richmond, 2016-2018
  • Member of the Board of Directors of Boaz & Ruth
  • Member of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project Screening Committee
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Children’s Home Society of Virginia
  • Chair, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Pro Bono Committee

Professional Activities and Experience
  • Leaders in the Law, Virginia Lawyers Weekly, Class of 2017
  • Selected among Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s 2010 “Influential Women of Virginia”
  • Named among Virginia Business 2010 Legal Elite (Business Law)
  • Selected in “Rising Stars” (Banking), Virginia Super Lawyers 2007 and 2008


Articles

  • Asset-Based Lending Credit Facilities: The Borrower’s Perspective, Business Law Today
  • Compliance With Credit Agreements Can Be A Major Challenge, Association for Financial Professionals
  • Negotiating and Complying with Credit Agreements, AFP
  • Learning to Refi: Considerations in Credit Agreement Refinancings, Exchange Magazine

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