Jessica G. Royko

• Counsel to the administrative agent in connection with multiple senior secured credit facilities totaling over $175 million for a music publishing company. 
• Counsel to the administrative agent in connection with $360 million secured first- and second-lien credit facilities for a billing and payment solutions company.
• Counsel to the administrative agent in connection with a $135 million secured first-lien credit facility for a data protection company.
• Counsel to a private equity firm and its lumber portfolio company in connection with its $207 million secured first- and second-lien credit facilities.
• Counsel to a publicly traded industrial sand supplier in connection with its $60 million secured credit facility.
• Counsel to a private equity firm and its PVF portfolio company in connection with its $210 million secured first-lien credit facility.
• Counsel to a publicly traded medical technology company in connection with its $250 million secured credit facility.
• Counsel to a private equity firm and its subscription spend monitoring software portfolio company in connection with its $75 million senior secured credit facility.
• Counsel to a private equity firm and its management services portfolio company in connection with its $45 million senior secured credit facility.
• Counsel to a private equity firm and its constituent management software portfolio company in connection with its $77.5 million senior secured credit facility.

Jessica Royko is a counsel in Alston & Bird’s Finance Group. She represents lenders, arrangers, agents, sponsors, and borrowers in commercial lending and banking transactions as well as financial restructuring transactions. Jessica has experience with large syndicated credit facilities, single-lender and club credit facilities, multicurrency transactions, secured and unsecured debt financings, acquisition financings, asset-based and cash-flow financings, mezzanine financings, first- and second-lien financings, debtor-in-possession financings, and exit financings. 

Jessica has acted as counsel to large national and international banks and other financial institutions, commercial finance companies, investment banks, private investment funds, and other lenders. Her representation of borrowers includes portfolio companies of private equity firms as well as private and public companies. She has closed transactions in a variety of industry sectors, including music publishing, lender financing, health care, franchise finance, software, technology, and telecommunications. 

Jessica received her J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law, where she served as student authorities editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. She received her B.A. degree in economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. Jessica is a member of the State Bars of New York and Georgia. 

Bar Admissions

• Georgia
• New York

Education

• Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1999)
• University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1996)