KEVIN A. McGINNIS

KEVIN A. McGinnis is a partner at McGuireWoods. Based in the firm’s Charlotte, North Carolina office, he has structured, negotiated and documented senior debt financing arrangements of all types, including secured and unsecured single bank and syndicated credit agreements, multicurrency financing facilities, and acquisition financings for clients that include, among others, national banking institutions.

McGinnis has worked on financings for manufacturing companies, retailer stores, healthcare providers, business consulting companies and media outlets. He also has extensive experience documenting and negotiating credit facilities on behalf of banking institutions that lend to or invest in NBA, NFL, MLB and

NHL professional sports franchises, as well as

English Premier League clubs.

In particular, McGinnis has worked with the Office of the Commissioner of Major League

Baseball and the National Football League in preparing loan documentation. Additionally, he has represented the administrative agent in a variety of leveraged and investment grade syndicated and single-bank loan transactions.

In part due to his work on these matters, in 2016 McGuireWoods was selected as a Sports Group of the Year by Law360.

McGinnis earned a BA, magna cum laude, from Duke University, and a JD, cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he was managing editor of the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy. He was a Lord Rothemere Scholar while attending the University of Oxford in 1994.

McGinnis’ father is an Irish citizen via his grandparents. His roots are in Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry, where relatives still live, and Co. Monaghan.