About Carolyn Alford

Carolyn represents corporate borrowers, private equity sponsors, financial institutions and institutional investors on a wide range of complex and innovative corporate finance matters including acquisition, unitranche, first lien/second lien and mezzanine financings, leveraged and investment-grade syndicated credit facilities, private placements of notes and asset-based lending. While her industry experience is broad, she has an extensive track record in financing matters for the healthcare, pharma, telecom and media sectors. Notably, Carolyn is also the leader of King & Spalding’s Financial Services Industry group, Leveraged Finance and Restructuring team, and firm-wide Tactical Opportunities team.

Carolyn also has experience structuring programmatic lending platforms, and is frequently called upon by clients to advise on structuring innovative financial products and to represent their interests in workouts and out of court restructurings.

Carolyn is a fellow and past-President of the American College of Investment Counsel, where she served on the Board of Trustees for eight years, and the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, where she has served on the Nominating Committee. As a passionate proponent for diversity, Carolyn is proud to serve on the Board of the Atlanta Women’s Foundation. Carolyn also has the honor of serving as a board member of the Children’s Hospital of Atlanta Foundation and the Atlanta Women’s Foundation.