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Becky leads the firm’s Commercial Finance Practice Group. She focuses her practice on finance and real estate transactions and has extensive experience representing lenders, borrowers, servicers, and issuers on financing transactions. These include real estate finance, commercial and industrial loans, agribusiness finance, bond transactions, asset-based lending, and multi-bank syndicated lending and participations, and workouts. Becky also has extensive experience representing owners, developers and tenants in the purchase, sale, development and leasing of commercial real estate properties.

Other Info About Rebecca

Experience

Legal Work Highlights

Counsel to farm credit association for $20 million asset-based credit facility to grain distributor.

Counsel to national bank for $40 million asset-based revolving credit facility to regional petroleum wholesale company.

Counsel to buyer for $67 million acquisition of shopping centers in Indiana and Kentucky.

Counsel to farm credit association for $5 million construction facility to renewable energy developer.

Counsel to financial institutions on loans available through programs sponsored and administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for small businesses located throughout the United States.

Counsel to farm credit associations on agribusiness finance, real estate finance, equipment finance, acquisition and sale of real estate, capital markets transactions, as well as general corporate and compliance matters.

Counsel to retail shopping center developers in acquisitions, sales and lease negotiations, including shopping centers in Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

Local counsel to major food processing company in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee for $1.7 billion finance transaction.

Counsel to automotive OEM in $200 million expansion in Kentucky, including bond financing and state incentives.

Bond Counsel and Lender’s counsel to cities, counties, fire protection districts, nonprofit corporations and financial institutions in tax-exempt general obligation and appropriation bonds, lease financing, and 501(c)(3) financing.

Education

Law School

University of Kentucky College of Law, J.D.
Moot Court Board
Kentucky Law Journal
CALI Award: Advanced Torts

Undergraduate School

Centre College, B.A., cum laude

Bar Memberships

Rebecca is licensed to practice in the following state(s):

Kentucky

Courts

Rebecca is admitted to practice before the following court(s):

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Sixth Circuit

Recognition

Local & National Recognition

Selected for inclusion in Kentucky Rising Stars® 2013-present

Professional Affiliations

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

National Association of Bond Lawyers

Kentucky Bar Association

Louisville Bar Association

American Bar Association

Civic Activities

Civic & Charitable Organizations

Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies Junior Board

SOAR Leadership Program

Ignite Louisville (Leadership Louisville Center)

Focus Louisville (Leadership Louisville Center)

Young Women Lead Conference

United Way Campaign

Firm Committees

Rebecca serves or has served in the following leadership role(s) at Frost Brown Todd:

Member Personnel Committee, former Member

Presentations

Rebecca was invited to speak at the following events:

PPP Loan Forgiveness: Appealing Adverse Rulings, Responding to SBA Loan Audits, January 7, 2021

Various presentations for financial institutions in Louisville and Lexington, as well as the Louisville Bar Association. Presentation topics have included legal issues impacting the lending industry, including real estate and public finance.

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