Gwen L. Windle
Gwen Windle's practice focuses on asset acquisitions, corporate finance, real estate law, banking law and commercial law. She has extensive experience in representing borrowers and lenders in financing transactions, purchasers and sellers in complex asset acquisitions, and principals, lenders and developers in leasing and commercial real estate transactions. Her practice has involved transactions throughout the United States.
In addition to her real estate and banking practice, Ms. Windle has been extensively involved in the real estate aspects of mergers and acquisitions and in complex debt restructuring and refinancing transactions, including representation of a public company in the restructuring of over $3 billion in public and bank debt. She has also represented clients in the areas of mortgage and consumer loan disclosures and bank deposits and collections. Ms. Windle has substantial experience in real estate transactions and financings in the healthcare industry, and has been involved in the establishment of land conservation areas and public/private development projects. She was recognized for expertise in real estate law in the Birmingham Business Journal's inaugural "Best of the Bar" poll in 2005 and for expertise in banking law in the 2006 and 2007 polls. Ms. Windle is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Real Estate Law and Banking Law), and in Alabama Super Lawyers.
Ms. Windle has served as an adjunct professor on the Uniform Commercial Code at the University of Alabama School of Law and as a member of the Alabama Board of Bar Examiners on the subject of the Uniform Commercial Code. Before beginning her legal education, she was a practicing social worker in Mobile, Alabama.
Admitted to practice:
Alabama
University of Alabama (M.S.W., cum laude, 1974; J.D., 1986) (Hugo Black Scholar; M. Leigh Harrison Scholar; Order of the Coif; Member, Editorial Board, Alabama Law Review)
"Doing Business in Alabama", in BNA's Corporate Practice Series Portfolio No. 84, Doing Business in States Other Than the State of Incorporation (Bureau of National Affairs 2006) (with Ross N. Cohen)
"Liability of Directors and Other Institution-Affiliated Parties", Banking Law Update, University of Alabama School of Law/CLE Alabama, 2010
