Overview

Attorney Kendria Lewis guides health care and other clients through restructurings, transactions, and workouts.

Clients value her practical, proactive, cost-effective legal advice, which helps them minimize transaction risks that could present unexpected challenges.

Kendria has extensive experience representing receivers and indenture trustees in receiverships over senior living facilities, including skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care facilities. Kendria handles all phases of the receivership process, from appointment of the receiver to disposition of receivership estate assets and discharge of the receiver. She also has experience using court-approved stalking-horse auctions and private sale processes in the marketing and sale of such facilities.

In addition, Kendria provides regulatory and compliance advice to a broad range of clients in the health care and life sciences industries and helps guide health care and other clients through bankruptcy proceedings, restructuring, and workouts. She also uses her experience to guide hospitals and physician practices through transactions, including negotiations of definitive agreements, revisions to governance documents, and due diligence matters.

Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Kendria was an attorney in a regional law firm’s Finance & Restructuring practice. Previously, she served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Chief Justice Cheri Beasley of the Supreme Court of North Carolina and the Honorable Darren Jackson of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

Experience

  • Represented a court-appointed receiver over a memory care and assisted living facility in Nashville, Tennessee, in litigation and health care regulatory matters.
  • Represented a court-appointed receiver over a senior living facility in Nashville, Tennessee, in litigation and health care regulatory matters.
  • Represented a receiver in the oversight and management of five memory care-focused assisted living facilities in Florida.
  • Represented an indenture trustee in a receivership proceeding concerning three assisted living facilities in Texas, including advising on regulatory, financial, and operational issues.
  • Represented creditors in preference demand proceedings, providing strategic counsel and defending against avoidance claims in bankruptcy actions.
  • Facilitated the sale of numerous health care facilities in connection with receivership engagements, including drafting and negotiating the purchase and sale agreements and related transaction documents.
  • Represented a hospital and health care services management firm in its capacity as a receiver over assisted living, skilled nursing, and independent living facilities in Alabama in litigation and health care regulatory matters.
  • Represented a large financial services company as an administrative agent and lender in an asset-based revolving credit facility of more than $100 million with subsidiaries of a skilled nursing facilities operator.
  • Represented a hospital and health care services management firm in its capacity as court-appointed receiver over four skilled nursing facilities located in Texas.

Credentials

Education

  • University of Tennessee College of Law (J.D., 2019)
    • Articles Editor, Tennessee Law Review
    • Senior Commentary Editor, Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law
  • University of South Florida (B.S., cum laude, 2015)

Bar Admissions

  • Tennessee

Professional & Community Involvement

  • Junior League of Nashville
  • Leadership Council on Leadership Diversity, Pathfinder, 2024
  • Nashville Bar Association
  • Nashville Bar Foundation Leadership Forum: 2025 Leadership Class
  • Nashville Young Leaders Council, Fall 2024
  • Transformation Life Center, Board Member
  • Turnaround Management Association, Board Member

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