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	Kevin Patrick Conboy Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Partner, Corporate Department 600 Peachtree Street, N.E.  24th Floor Atlanta, GA 30308 kevinconboy@paulhastings.com
Kevin Conboy has extensive experience in commercial lending and other debt finance transactions, and in structuring and documenting secured and unsecured lending transactions. While most of his practice has involved representation of the agent bank in complex senior debt transactions, he has also frequently represented borrower clients of the firm. His transactions frequently include cross-border features, first and second lien financings, unusual collateral classes, and complex intercreditor issues. He is experienced in cash-flow lending, asset-based lending, the financing of leveraged buyouts, and representation of banks, hedge funds, finance companies and other financial institutions lending to businesses, with a focus on cable television, radio, cellular, outdoor, internet service providers, publishing, wireless and other communications businesses; aircraft finance; manufacturing enterprises; technology companies; and retail businesses. He has also assisted in bankruptcies, workouts, loan restructurings and DIP financings. His general corporate practice has included the representation of several cable television companies (including the start-up of an alternate access venture), a long-distance telephone service reseller, broadcasters, a regional Bell operating company with respect to its communications transactions, health care technology companies, a home service company, an internet security company, a power company, real estate developers, and a Fortune 50 industrial conglomerate. Mr. Conboy has authored a number of law review articles pertaining to foreign investment in the United States, and speaks to financiers on topics such as secured lending, transaction structuring, representing the agent bank in a syndicated credit, and lending to communications businesses. Mr. Conboy serves as an adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, teaching a course on lending and commercial finance. Mr. Conboy began his legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable Marvin H. Shoob, U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Georgia. He also served for two years as deputy headmaster and teacher at a secondary school in rural Kenya, East Africa. He is a dual citizen of the United States and the Republic of Ireland, and President of the Atlanta Chapter of the Ireland Chamber of Commerce. In that capacity, he led a Trade Mission to Ireland and Northern Ireland in June 2007 with Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue. Kevin works with several Irish clients, as well as US clients doing business in Ireland. Mr. Conboy is actively involved in various community service organizations. He serves as Trustee for Southern Catholic College, is on the Advisory Board for the Dean Rusk Center for International Law at the University of Georgia's Lumpkin School of Law, and is active with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Mr. Conboy attended Regis High School in New York City, received his B.A. degree from LeMoyne College in 1974 and received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1979. He is a member of the Atlanta and International Bar Associations and admitted to the Bar in the State of Georgia.
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