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Katie Baynes, a partner in Nixon Peabody’s Public Finance group, focuses her practice on project finance, infrastructure finance and public finance. She represents government authorities, issuers and underwriters in connection with project financings including stadiums and arenas as well as industrial development revenue bonds; college and university bonds; hospital, health care, and senior living bonds; and other exempt facility bonds.
I have been involved in project financings around the country. Some examples of transactions that I have been involved with include: representing the underwriters in the financing of a $1.8 billion nitrogen-based fertilizer production plant in Lee County, Iowa, the financing and refinancing of recycled paper mills in Georgia, New York, Ohio and Indiana, the financing of a methanol facility in Texas, and the financing of a project in northern California referred to as the Cal Ag Project, which will process rice straw (the portion of the rice crop remaining after the rice has been harvested) and produce medium density fiberboard (MDF). In addition, I have represented various clients on project financings for proton cancer treatment facilities in Georgia, New Jersey, Maryland, and Washington.
I have been involved in numerous tax-exempt and taxable stadium and sports team financings, including for the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Yankee Stadium and Citi Field Ballpark, MetLife Stadium in New Jersey and Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Our team has won national recognition for its award-winning solutions to the challenges of financing these projects, which leverage taxpayer dollars to maximize private investment in these public facilities.
I am involved in a broad array of financings for economic development, including serving as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel. Projects financed include industrial development bonds as well as those for nonprofit borrowers such as universities and hospitals.
I have also represented financial institutions issuing letters of credit and standby bond purchase agreements to support a variety of municipal bonds. I have structured and negotiated senior lien secured and unsecured debt, including credit facilities, exempt public offerings, limited offerings and private placements as well as subordinated debt and related inter-creditor arrangements.
There is an abundance of opportunity for tax-exempt incentives to help communities seeking to provide employment growth and borrowers (private as well as nonprofits) seeking new business opportunities. Having an appreciation of all sides of these financings, I look forward to extracting the maximum benefits for my clients from these incentives.
This article highlights NP for advising 2Life Communities in the site acquisition and development of a new apartment community in Newton, Massachusetts, for older adults in the middle-market. The article quotes Boston Affordable Housing & Real Estate senior counsel Allen Lynch, who led the NP team that also included Rochester Project Finance & Public Finance partner Katie Baynes, Boston Affordable Housing & Real Estate counsel Christina Ricotta, and Chicago Project Finance & Public Finance counsel Gretchen Sherwood.
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Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude
Cornell University, School of Industrial & Labor Relations, B.S.
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