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L. Susan Doss

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L. Susan Doss

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Susan Doss is a member of the firm's Banking and Financial Services and Corporate Practice Groups and has a broad range of experience in business transactions of many types, particularly debt financings. Her banking practice includes commercial loan and other financing transactions and counseling financial institutions with respect to compliance with various federal and state banking laws and regulations. In the corporate area, her primary areas of practice include corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate counsel representation. Susan is listed in The Best Lawyers of America in the categories of Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, and Securitization and Structured Finance Law.

Susan Doss is a member of the firm's Banking and Financial Services and Corporate Practice Groups and has a broad range of experience in business transactions of many types, particularly debt financings. Her banking practice includes commercial loan and other financing transactions and counseling financial institutions with respect to compliance with various federal and state banking laws and regulations. In the corporate area, her primary areas of practice include corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate counsel representation. Susan is listed in The Best Lawyers of America in the categories of Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, and Securitization and Structured Finance Law.

Since the early 1990's, a significant part of Susan's banking practice has focused on mortgage warehouse lending transactions. Susan has worked on hundreds of syndicated and non-syndicated warehouse facility deals, ranging in size from $2 million to over $1 billion and structured as lines of credit, repurchase facilities, or loan participation sale facilities.

In the corporate area, Susan uses her banking and finance background to efficiently and effectively represent corporate clients in connection with the negotiation, structuring, and closing of credit facilities of all types from commercial lenders.

Susan is often called upon to work on legal opinions on behalf of the firm's clients in connection with their financings and other business transactions and as local counsel in connection with multi-state financings and acquisitions and divestitures.

Experience

Susan's experience in the banking area includes a broad range of commercial loan and other debt financing transactions, representing, at various times, both lenders and borrowers in syndicated and non-syndicated transactions. She has extensive knowledge of the UCC, particularly Article 9 (Secured Transactions). Her experience in the corporate area is diverse. It ranges from the representation of a publicly-traded service industry consolidator in its numerous Alabama acquisitions to the general representation of privately-held companies and their owners in succession and other business planning and various business transactions.

Distinctions

  • Leadership Alabama Class XXII, 2011-2012
  • Listed in Alabama Super Lawyers
    • "Top 25 Women," 2011
    • Banking, 2011-2013
  • 2011 Woman of the Year, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (Alabama/ Gulf Coast Chapter)
  • Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, The University of Alabama School of Law, February 2008
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®
    • Banking and Finance Law, 2006-2013
    • Corporate Law, 2006-2013
    • Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law, 2003-2006
    • Financial Institutions Law, 2003-2006
    • Securities/Capital Markets Law, 2009-2013
    • Securitization and Structured Finance Law, 2011-2013
    • "Lawyer of the Year," Birmingham, Banking and Finance Law, 2012
  • Alabama Law Foundation Fellow, 2008
  • National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Leadership Award, 1999
  • Listed in Birmingham Business Journal, "Top 40 Under 40," 1998
  • Leadership Alabama, Alabama Leadership Initiative, 1995
  • Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Development Class, 1994

Memberships and Affiliations

  • President's Cabinet, University of Alabama, Member, 2009-Present
  • University of Alabama Law School Foundation, Director & Executive Committee, 2008-Present
  • The Alabama Law Foundation, Fellow, 2008
  • The Atticus Finch Society, Charter Member
  • Farrah Law Alumni Society, Member, 1989-Present
  • Farrah Law Alumni Society, Board of Trustees, Chair, 2006-2008; Vice Chair, 2004-2006
  • Society of International Business Fellows, 2001-Present; Executive Committee, Counsel and Board of Directors 2003-2006
  • Newcomen Society, 1999-Present
  • The University of Alabama, Capital Campaign National Steering Committee, 2005-2009
  • Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Trustee, 1997-2006; Executive Committee, Treasurer and Chairman, Finance & Legal Committee 2004-2005; Executive Committee and Chair, Director Development Committee 2005-2006
  • Junior League of Birmingham, Member, 1989-Present
  • Alabama Girls State, Advisor 1997-Present; Director, 1994-1996; Counselor, 1984-1997
  • Mortar Board, Inc. National Alumni Association, Sustaining Lifetime Member, 2000-Present; Section Coordinator, 1990-1993

You May Not Know

Susan was the first woman to serve on the Executive Committee of Bradley Arant, serving in that role from 1998 until 2002.