Kathleen Currey is a partner in the commercial finance practice group with Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP. She represents financial institutions and borrowers in secured lending and financial restructuring matters. Ms. Currey has extensive experience with syndicated loan facilities, asset-based financings, lender finance transactions, debtor-in- possession financings and negotiating complex intercreditor and subordination agreements. Ms. Currey is a member of the Firm’s executive committee and is the chair of the Firm’s partnership committee. She graduated from the University of South Carolina (B.S., Business Administration (Finance), 1986) and Emory University School of Law (J.D., with distinction, 1993) and is a member of the state bars of Georgia and South Carolina (inactive).

Ms. Currey is listed in Chambers USA Leading American Business Lawyers in banking and finance (2013-present) and in The Best Lawyers in America in banking and finance law (2016-present). Ms. Currey was featured in Secured Finance Network’s May 2021 Women in Secured Finance issue of The Secured Lender.

Brittiny focuses her practice on representing financial institutions in a variety of commercial finance transactions, including asset-based transactions, revolving and term loan facilities, and acquisition financings.

CAPABILITIES
Banking & Financial Services

CREDENTIALS

Education

• J.D., magna cum laude, Georgia State University College of Law
  • Order of the Coif
  • Certificate in Intellectual Property Law
• B.B.A., summa cum laude, Kennesaw State University

Admissions

• Georgia

Mr. Cianciotti is an Atlanta-based shareholder in the Financial Services Transactions Group of Baker Donelson. He helps banks, other commercial lenders and borrowers structure, negotiate, and close secured loan transactions. His experience includes asset-based and cash flow working capital facilities, equipment and acquisition financing, and venture debt and growth capital lending.  In addition to his experience in private practice, Mr. Cianciotti previously served as Vice President-Legal Counsel at First Capital, an asset-based lender providing secured lending solutions to mid-market businesses. He also served as an adjunct professor at Emory University Law School.  Mr. Cianciotti received his J.D., magna cum laude, from University of Pennsylvania Law School and his B.S., summa cum laude, from Boston College.

Matthew Sandiford is a partner in King & Spalding's Finance practice resident in the Atlanta office. Matthew is active in King & Spalding's leveraged finance, healthcare, venture finance and specialty finance practices.

Matthew represents financial institutions, lenders, investors, borrowers, underwriters and arrangers in leveraged finance, securitization and other secured and unsecured lending transactions, with a focus on healthcare services, pharmaceuticals, franchisors, medical device and sponsor finance transactions.

Matthew holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia. Matthew was a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship in Germany, during which he worked at the European Central Bank and Hamburg Commercial Bank.

King & Spalding brings together more than 100 finance lawyers located in offices across the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East to represent lenders, investors, funds and borrowers in the full range of secured and unsecured financings. Over the past three years, we closed approximately 600 finance transactions for our clients, amounting to $165 billion in aggregate financing.