Todd is a leveraged finance and private debt partner in A&O Shearman's New York office. He advises a wide variety of financial institutions and investment funds across a broad range of domestic and international finance transactions. He regularly counsels commercial and investment banks, alternative asset managers and private credit funds, as well as borrowers and other market participants, on secured and unsecured loans, leveraged and acquisition financings, asset-based loan facilities, debtor-in-possession financings, bridge loans, restructurings and recapitalizations, and general corporate finance and banking matters. His practice spans the syndicated loan and “direct lending” markets and ranges from middle-market to large cap transactions across multiple asset classes, including U.S. domestic and Latin American digital infrastructure.

Todd leads A&O Shearman’s annual Leveraged Finance Training Camp and has published articles in a number of media outlets, including The Banking Law Journal, The Banker and the International Comparative Legal Guide to Lending & Secured Finance. He is a frequent contributor to industry conferences and podcasts, such as Debtwire’s U.S. Private Credit Forum and the ABF Journal and 9fin podcasts, among others.

Todd received his BBA from The University of Georgia and his JD and MBA from Vanderbilt University.

Alana C. St. Aude is Vice President and Senior Counsel for Private Credit in Goldman Sachs Asset and Wealth Management where she leads legal coverage of private credit transactions, with a focus on direct lending, hybrid capital, business development company, senior, subordinated, unitranche and mezzanine loans, equity co-investments, preferred equity and fund formation matters, along with other complex structuring and financing transactions for middle market and large cap private equity sponsored companies.

Alana also has experience as in-house counsel for Capital One's Commercial Bank where she was lead counsel for technology, media, telecom (TMT) leveraged finance and financial institutions group, and as a Banking & Finance Associate Attorney at the law firms of Weil Gotshal and Paul Weiss.

Alana is the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Advancement Initiative, an organization of mid-career women of color attorneys both in-house and at outside law firms. Alana was selected as a Leadership Council for Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow for 2021, a 92Y Women in Power Fellow for 2020 and has been recognized as a Top 10-30 Somethings Award recipient for the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and Top 40 Under 40 by The Network Journal. Alana received her law degree from Harvard Law School where she was honored as a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, and received her Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University where she was a recipient of the Cornell Tradition Fellowship.