Distinctions · Mid-South Rising Stars®, Securities & Corporate Finance Associations · American Bar Association · National Association of Bond Lawyers · Mississippi Bar Association - Business Section · Capital Area Bar Association · Jackson Young Lawyers Legal Experience · Bond Counsel and Counsel to Community Development Entity in new markets tax credits/Mississippi Business Finance Corporation Gulf Opportunity Zone Bond financing for medical office building project located in Pascagoula, MS. · Counsel to tax credit investor in new markets tax credits financing for Habitat for Humanity Project located on Mississippi Gulf Coast. · Counsel to developer in new markets tax credits and historic rehabilitation tax credits financing for historic building restoration project located in downtown Jackson, MS. · $12,240,000 Mississippi Business Finance Corporation Tax-Exempt/Taxable Revenue Bonds (Statesman Housing, LLC Project) Series 2009A and 2009B. · $103,545,000 Mississippi Development Bank Special Obligation Bonds (Municipal Energy Agency of Mississippi Power Supply Project) Series 2006A. · $424,988,000 Mississippi Development Bank Variable Rate Special Obligation Bonds (Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi Natural Gas Supply Project) 2005 Series. · $27,770,000 Parkway East Public Improvement District Special Assessment Bonds, Series 2005. · $7,125,000 Pinelands Public Improvement District Special Assessment Bonds, Series 2006. · $870,000,000 Mississippi Business Finance Corporation Taxable Industrial Revenue Bonds (Gulf LNG Energy Project) Series 2008. Papers, Presentations & Publications · Co-author, "Recovery Act Update: New Markets and Other Financing Options Available to Companies," Pointe Innovation Magazine, Summer 2009. · "Economic Stimulus 101: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009," Annual Development Finance Summit, Council of Development Finance Agencies (CDFA), May 2009. · "NMTC Legal Issues Panel," New Market Tax Credits Workshop, Mississippi Development Authority (MDA), May 2008. |