Naho concentrates her practice in complex commercial and banking transactions. She primarily represents lenders and investors in debt financings and related equity investments in connection with acquisition financings for leveraged buy-outs and syndicated and bilateral cash flow and asset-based credit facilities, with an emphasis on transactions involving borrowers in various healthcare industries including but not limited to pharmaceuticals, medical devices and dentist and physician practice management. She has also represented lenders in the timberlands/forest products and cable/communications industries.
Naho leads the Alternative Lender sub-team of the McGuireWoods Financial Institutions Industry team. She has also served as co-chair of the McGuireWoods Recruiting Committee as well as a member of an external committee for a major financial institution providing advice with respect to that client’s internal ongoing diversity initiatives.
Experience
- Represented the administrative agent in connection with a $275 million senior secured credit facility to a provider of therapeutic and behavioral health services.
- Represented the administrative agent in connection with an approximately $132 million senior secured credit facility to a provider of mental and behavioral health services to children, families, and adults.
- Represented a joint lead arranger in connection with a $186 million senior secured credit facility to a fertility clinic platform.
- Represented the administrative agent and co-lead arranger in connection with an approximately $177 million USD Equivalent senior secured credit facility in connection with a private equity sponsor’s leveraged acquisition of a contract drug manufacturer and several related acquisitions of pharmaceutical assets in US and Canada.
- Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $100 million senior secured credit facility for the leveraged buyout of a leading provider of home health benefits management services.
- Represented the administrative agent and co-lead arranger in connection with a $45 million senior secured credit facility to support a private equity sponsor’s acquisition of a manufacturer of prosthetic devices.
- Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $29 million senior secured credit facility to finance the acquisition and refinancing of a manufacturer of medical devices.
- Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $25 million senior secured credit facility to support a private equity sponsor’s acquisition of a network of clinics treating varicose veins.
- Georgia
- North Carolina
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Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Finance Law, 2023, 2024, Woodward/White, Inc.
Named to “Leaders in the Law Class of 2023,” North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, 2023
Selected for inclusion in The Secured Finance Network’s The Secured Lender – Women in Secured Finance publication, 2022
Selected for inclusion into the North Carolina Pro Bono Honor Society, 2018, 2019
Recipient, Women in Business Achievement Award, Charlotte Business Journal, 2012
Named to “Georgia Rising Stars,” Banking, Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2006, 2007
- Author, Headlines for Alternative Lenders on LIBOR Replacement, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 4, 2022
- Author, New Budget and Stimulus Package Includes Changes to Paycheck Protection Program, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, December 28, 2020
- Author, End of the Road: Federal Reserve Issues Guidance for Winding Down Main Street Lending Program, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 25, 2020
- Author, Main Street Lending Program Opens to Nonprofits, Multiborrower Loans, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 12, 2020
- Author, New SBA Changes in Ownership Procedures Under Paycheck Protection Program, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, October 5, 2020
- Author, Federal Reserve Extends, Expands Main Street Lending Program, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 31, 2020
- Author, Federal Reserve Updates Main Street Lending Program Guidance Following Launch, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 17, 2020
- Author, New Updates: White Paper on Paycheck Protection Program Forgiveness, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 10, 2020
- Author, Main Street Lending Program Now Open, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 6, 2020
- Author, Federal Reserve Opens Main Street Lending Program to Lenders, Releases Nonprofit Proposals, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, June 18, 2020
- Author, Federal Reserve Tweaks Terms of Main Street Lending Program Ahead of Launch, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, June 12, 2020
- Author, Main Street Lending Program: (Almost) Open for Business, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 29, 2020
- Author, Federal Reserve Expands Scope of the Main Street Lending Program, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 1, 2020
- Author, Lessons Learned: Pre-emptive Revolver Draws (Potential COVID-19 MAE), McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 17, 2020
- Author, Women in Private Equity to Know: Maureen Spivack, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 22, 2018
- Author, Women in Private Equity to Know: Rena Clark, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 3, 2018
- Author, Department of Treasury Announces New Markets Tax Credit Allocation Winners, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, February 24, 2012
- Co-author, "Stiffed Borrower May Have Little Recourse with Lender," Charlotte Business Journal, November 21, 2008
- Co-author, "Middle Market Still Enjoys Deal Flow," Charlotte Business Journal, November 23, 2007
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Duke University School of LawJD
cum laude
1998 -
Johns Hopkins UniversityBA
with High Honors
1995
Board Member, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Member and Past President, Charlotte Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Member, National Asian-Pacific American Bar Association
Member, Georgia Asian-Pacific American Bar Association
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Mecklenburg County Bar
Leadership Charlotte XXXII
- Guest Speaker, "Healthcare Lending Deal Landscape Trends and Forecasts for the Future," Healthcare Headlines Video Series, August 11, 2021