Leighton Stradtman advises domestic and international clients in the areas of banking and finance law. Whether helping large financialservices companies with their unique needs or assisting emerging
companies through negotiating contracts, facilitating strategic transactions and resolving disputes, Leighton has seen pretty much all of it in his more than thirty-five years of practicing law.
He counsels clients on complex financing transactions, having represented lenders, borrowers, issuers, underwriters and investors in a wide variety of areas across many industry sectors, including secured and unsecured credit facilities, syndicated and singlelender loans, real estate and asset-based lending, letters of credit, public finance and economic development incentives, structured finance and private placements. Representing lenders in commercial loan workouts and restructurings is a significant part of his practice. He has managed the resolution of hundreds of millions of dollars of troubled commercial loans secured by various collateral across the US and in many other countries.
Civic and Professional Activities
- State Bar of Georgia
- American Bar Association, Member, Business Law Section
- Former volunteer and Advancement Coordinator, Boy Scouts of America Troop 298
- Former Member of Vestry and Senior Warden, All Saints' Episcopal Church
- Current Member, Board of Visitors, and former Member, Board of Trustees, Kanuga Conferences, Inc.
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Atlanta Children's Shelter, Inc.
- Former Class Agent, Washington and Lee University
Honors and Awards
- Named the Best Lawyers® "Lawyer of the Year" in Banking & Finance Law - Atlanta (2023)
- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America (BL Rankings), Banking & Finance Law (2017 - Present) and Real Estate Law (2018 - Present)
- Super Lawyers Honoree, Georgia Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters) (2014 - 2020)
- Chambers USA Ranked Lawyer, Banking and Finance, Georgia (2016)
Representative Experience
Any result the lawyer or law firm may have achieved on behalf of clients in other matters does not necessarily indicate similar results can be obtained for other clients.
- Represented commercial bank as lender in $37 million senior secured credit facility for technology company.
- Represented financial services company as lender in issuance of $80 million public school capital outlay warrants.
- Represented credit union as lender in $56 million secured commercial real estate loan.
- Represented commercial bank as lender in $40 million commitment of $400 million syndicated senior secured credit facility for diversified government-solutions company.
- Represented global bank in £24 million cross-border secured credit facility for energy sector manufacturer.
- Represented national bank as purchaser in $32 million sale of pool of commercial real estate loans.
- Represented global manufacturer as investor in series of cross-border economic development incentives transactions totaling more than $350 million.
- Represented hospitality sector company and affiliates as issuer and guarantors in $400 million senior secured notes offering, and as borrower and loan parties in $70 million syndicated secured revolving credit facility, from global financial services company.
- Represented aerospace products manufacturer in $10 million credit facility from European bank.
- Represented public real estate developer as local counsel in $850 million syndicated credit facility.
- Represented energy sector company in $8 million secured credit facility from private lender.