Faculty Profile: Leslie Ford

Leslie Ford’s practice focuses on advising companies in a wide variety of financing transactions. Serving a diverse client list, Leslie represents public and private borrowers and issuers across a range of syndicated lending transactions and capital markets offerings. Her extensive debt finance and capital markets experience includes high yield, investment grade and convertible notes offerings, Term Loan B facilities, asset-based loans, revolving facilities and acquisition financings. She also routinely advises companies on loan workout and restructuring matters.

By thinking creatively with her clients, Leslie works to close deals with successful outcomes that go beyond the numbers to the broader business objectives. For borrowers and issuers, this means strategic and efficient access to capital while maintaining maximum operational flexibility in debt arrangements. Leslie’s success with her financing practice extends to include frequent collaboration with attorneys in the Corporate & Securities and Healthcare Practice Groups.

Select representations have included:

• Smyrna Ready Mix Concrete in its $1.10 billion secured high yield notes offering.
• i3 Verticals, LLC in its $450 million secured revolving credit facility.
• Holley Inc. in its $825 million Term Loan B and revolving credit facility.
• Smyrna Ready Mix Concrete in its $1.05 billion Term Loan B and acquisition financing.
• Louisiana Pacific Corporation in its $550 million revolving credit facility.
• Tivity Health, Inc. in its $500 million Term Loan B and revolving credit facility.
• Smyrna Ready Mix Concrete in its debut financing of $1.10 billion aggregate high yield notes offering and $425 million aggregate asset-based revolving facility.
• i3 Verticals, LLC in its $138 million convertible notes offering.
• CoreCivic, Inc. in its $250 million term loan facility.
• The Nashville Predators in its $60 million term loan and revolving facility.
• i3 Verticals, LLC in its $375 million secured revolving facility.
• CoreCivic, Inc. in its $160 million private placement notes.
• American Physician Partners in its $575 million aggregate senior secured credit facilities.
• CoreCivic, Inc. in its $1.00 billion term loan and revolving credit facility.
• The Nashville Predators in its participation in National Hockey League-wide credit facilities.