Paul Cushing focuses on representing both financial institutions and companies in a wide variety of financing transactions, including syndicated financings, secured financings, acquisition financings, bridge loans, securitizations, structured financings and public and private debt issuances. Paul also handles debt restructurings and workouts. Much of his practice centers on the representation of financial institutions and their capital markets groups in the financing of REITs and other real estate companies.
Paul is a long-time member of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association and has served as the chair of the Business Law Section of the Georgia State Bar and its UCC Subcommittee. In addition to his bar affiliations, he is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) and is featured as one of the leading Georgia lawyers for banking and finance in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. Paul is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the banking, corporate, equipment finance and structured finance areas.
- Counsel to one of the nation’s largest financial institutions on a $1.8 billion financing supporting the acquisition of one large REIT by another large REIT.
- Counsel to one of the nation’s largest financial institutions in connection with the liquidation of an investment fund managed by an affiliate of that institution.
- Counsel to a large, money-center bank providing portfolio acquisition facilities aggregating over $3 billion.
- Counsel to one of the world's largest floor covering manufacturers when it obtained over $3 billion of multicurrency financing in connection with the acquisition of a large, European-based manufacturer and marketer of laminate flooring products.
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Alston & Bird’s Finance Group moved into the top 20 of the 2012 Legal League Tables distributed by Thomson Reuters, both on the U.S. borrower and lender sides by volume.
January 22, 2013
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An Alston & Bird team led by Bryan Ives, and partners Andy Immerman and Paul Cushing, and associates William Snyder, Russell Hilton and Glenn Kunkes, advised Lightower in connection with its acquisition by Berkshire Partners LLC.
December 27, 2012
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Alston & Bird served as legal advisors for client Mohawk Industries, Inc., a floor coverings manufacturer, for the acquisition of Italian ceramic tile manufacturer Marazzi Group for approximately $1.55 billion in cash and shares to add to its global operations.
December 21, 2012
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Eighteen Alston & Bird attorneys across a wide range of practices have been named a 2013 “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers, one of the oldest and most respected peer-review publications in the legal profession. The “Lawyer of the Year” award is based on peer review and is given to those attorneys who received the highest average of votes in both their specific geographic location and practice area.
September 18, 2012
In the Press
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One hundred and forty-seven Alston & Bird attorneys have been selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The publication is universally regarded as among the few definitive guides to legal excellence, and its rankings are based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.
September 18, 2012
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September 12, 2011
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October 29, 2010
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August 30, 2010
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June 11, 2010
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