Corporate Counsel -(Public Finance)

JBA • Atlanta, GA

27d

About The Position

As an associate in the Corporate Department, you’ll have the opportunity to work on interesting, challenging, and groundbreaking cases in collaboration with senior attorneys. Our Corporate Bond team focuses on finance and incentives transactions. The client base is predominately public sector, including local and development authorities with an occasional representation of a city or county. Our practice base also includes real estate developers, operating companies(particularly with transactional work), and private lenders and borrowers. Our engagements concentrate in economic development or community development, new business locations or expansions (including financing for facilities), infrastructure, public-private partnerships, and layering capital stacks and deal structuring. Our finance work includes industrial development revenue bonds (IDBs) with some limited IDB bond issues tax-exempt. Other key financial products include project finance, syndicated bank loans, EB-5 immigrant investor capital, and tax credit finance (including New Markets Tax Credits).

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in corporate bond and public finance and/or Georgia specific economic development.
• In-depth experience in most or all of the following areas: municipal and public finance, familiarity with state and local tax law, tax-exempt finance, tax credits & incentives work (both in and outside Georgia), commercial finance, EB-5 (financing, and securities and other regulatory issues), and tax credit finance.
• Ability to manage transactions and be capable of independent responsibility for major documentation and components of large transactions.
• Admission to the GA Bar or the ability to waive-in.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in representing issuers, underwriters, nonprofit borrowers and developers is preferred.
• Additional corporate, finance, real estate or related experience outside the bond industry is a plus.
• Law firm experience preferred, but a combination of law firm or in-house experience considered.

Responsibilities

• Work on interesting, challenging, and groundbreaking cases in collaboration with senior attorneys.
• Focus on finance and incentives transactions within the Corporate Bond team.
• Represent public sector clients, including local and development authorities, cities, and counties.
• Engage in work related to economic development, community development, new business locations or expansions, infrastructure, public-private partnerships, and deal structuring.
• Handle industrial development revenue bonds (IDBs), project finance, syndicated bank loans, EB-5 immigrant investor capital, and tax credit finance.
• Manage transactions and take independent responsibility for major documentation and components of large transactions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed