Abbey Mansfield Ruby
Partner

Overview
Abbey Ruby is a financial services attorney in Holland & Knight's Nashville office and a Practice Group Leader of the firm's Financial Services group. Ms. Ruby brings insight to lenders, agents, private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers in complex financings and related transactions, including acquisition financings, first and second lien facilities, bridge loan facilities, mezzanine loans, asset-based lines of credit, real estate and construction financings, cash flow loans, capital call/subscription facilities, restructurings and workouts.
Ms. Ruby represents lenders, agents and borrowers in finance transactions spanning a wide range of industries, with particular emphasis on healthcare including loans to owners and operators of senior living, post-acute care and behavioral health facilities, as well as multifamily real estate loans. Her experience also includes complex cross-border and multi-currency facilities. Ms. Ruby also has extensive experience representing private equity firms and their portfolio companies on a wide variety of financing transactions.
Representative Experience
Credentials
- Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D.
- Michigan State University, B.A., with honors
- District of Columbia
- New York
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- Chambers USA – America's Leading Business Lawyers guide, Banking & Finance, 2023, 2024
- In Charge, Nashville Post, 2024
- 40 Under 40 Award, Secured Finance Network, 2023
- The Secured Lender, Women in Commercial Finance Honoree, 2021
- M&A Advisor, Emerging Leader Award, 2018
- Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, Fellow, 2018