Atty. Kimberly Easter Zirkle
Kimberly Zirkle focuses her practice on corporate finance and acquisition transactions. She regularly represents a variety of lenders, private equity portfolio companies, and private companies in corporate finance and acquisition transactions.
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Kimberly Easter Zirkle is a business attorney based in Charlotte, North Carolina, practicing at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP. Educated at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (J.D., 2006). Recognitions include Best Lawyers in America — Banking and Finance Law (2026). Serands clients in Charlotte, NC and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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- Kimberly Zirkle focuses her practice on corporate finance and acquisition transactions
- She regularly represents a variety of lenders, private equity portfolio companies, and private companies in corporate finance and acquisition transactions
- Kimberly’s experience involves a wide variety of debt structures including: unitranche, ABL, first lien, split lien, second lien, and mezzanine (secured or unsecured)
- Kimberly primarily represents SBICs, BDCs, lenders and institutional investors in the structuring, negotiation, and documentation of debt transactions and related equity co-investments
- She has experience involving a wide variety of debt structures including: unitranche, ABL, first lien, split lien, second lien, and mezzanine (secured or unsecured), for both domestic and cross-border transactions
- When asked what she does, Kimberly frequently responds “we do what our clients do.” The flexibility and willingness to pivot enables Kimberly and her team to craft creative solutions and structures for lender clients to seek to maximize returns and achieve the desired outcome
- Kimberly also regularly represents private equity funds in leveraged buy-out transactions and represents portfolio companies and other private companies as borrower counsel in their third-party debt financings
- In her role as borrower’s counsel, Kimberly is a trusted advisor to her private equity and corporate clients and provides counsel on structuring, debt terms, and other business considerations in order to enable clients to meet their financing needs
- She has provided counsel to clients for transactions involving technology, service and manufacturing companies as well as for companies operating in regulated industries such as government contracting, telecommunications and health care
- Kimberly currently serves as co-chair of Moore & Van Allen's Pro Bono and Public Service Committee and regularly represents victims of domestic violence on a pro bono basis in custody, support and divorce proceedings
- She led the effort to develop and launch the firm’s small business pro bono vertical aimed as providing much needed transactional assistance to small businesses in the Carolinas owned by persons of color
- Kimberly was a founding member of the firm's Young Professionals Subcommittee which is responsible for organizing local networking events for young professionals in the Charlotte community and takes an active role as a mentor for younger attorneys across the firm
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Business attorneys advise founders and growing companies on entity formation, contracts, financing, M&A, and dispute resolution.
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Jurisdictional Context
Why local counsel matters in North Carolina
Practicing law in North Carolina. Legal matters in North Carolina are governed by state-specific rules of civil and criminal procedure, statutes of limitations, and substantive law. Cases originating in Charlotte are typically filed in the local municipal court or the appropriate North Carolina state district court, depending on subject matter and amount in controversy. An attorney licensed in North Carolina brings working knowledge of local procedural deadlines, judicial practices in this andnue, and the substantive law that applies to cases brought here. Out-of-state attorneys generally cannot represent clients in North Carolina courts without local counsel or pro hac vice admission.
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