David L. Batty is a partner in Winston & Strawn’s finance practice group who concentrates on corporate lending.

Mr. Batty focuses his practice on the representation of financial institutions in syndicated credit facilities, including cross-border transactions, as well as mezzanine financings. He has served as counsel to the administrative agent and lead arranger in syndicated credit facilities ranging in size from $100 million to more than $4 billion extended to companies in the media, telecommunications, consumer, defense technology, and other sectors.

Mr. Batty also has extensive experience with financing private equity acquisitions, including representing private equity sponsors. In August 2009, he participated as a presenter at the American Bar Association’s 2009 Annual Meeting, and in November 2009, he participated in the 8th annual Private Equity and Mezzanine Finance Conference, which included Wachovia Capital Partners and other major private equity funds and financers in the Southeast. He served as the panel coordinator for a discussion of the practical implication of TARP rules on executive compensation at the 14th annual University at North Carolina School of Law Banking Institute in March 2010.