Kristen’s practice focuses on public finance transactions. She has served as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, bank counsel, and borrower’s counsel for a variety of tax-exempt transactions, including multifamily housing revenue bonds, 501(c)(3) bonds for colleges, universities, schools, including charter schools, and other nonprofits, private activity bonds, and industrial development bonds.
She has also served as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, and disclosure counsel in connection with traditional governmental financings for cities and counties. Kristen has experience with tax credit bonds, including qualified school construction bonds and qualified energy conservation bonds.
- Bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel in privately placed and publicly offered limited obligation, general obligation and revenue bond financings, qualified school construction bonds and qualified energy conservation bonds
- Bond counsel to North Carolina local authorities in connection with multifamily housing revenue bonds (often combined with 4% tax credits) and industrial development bonds
- Bond counsel and borrower’s counsel for numerous 501(c)(3) organizations, including private and charter schools, universities and hospitals in both private placement and public sale issues
- Counsel to lenders and borrowers in connection with new markets tax credit transactions
Events
- Speaker, "Financing Charter Schools in North Carolina — Issues and Opportunities," 16th Annual Nonprofit Seminar, October - November 2018
Insights
- Author, N.C. General Assembly Amends Ballot Question for 2024 Bond Referenda and Beyond, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 9, 2023
- Author, White House Announces Steps to Increase Affordable Housing Supply, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, September 2, 2021
- Author, IRS Clarifies Acceptable Tenant Preferences for Affordable Multifamily Housing Bonds, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 8, 2019
- Author, Proposed Securities Rule Changes for Municipal Issues Focus on Bank Loans, Other Private Placements, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 30, 2017
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- Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, Public Finance Law, 2022-2026
- Selected for inclusion in Leading Lawyers, Public Finance, North Carolina, Chambers USA, 2024, 2025
- Named to “Legal Elite,” Young Guns (Lawyers Under 40), Business North Carolina, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024