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    Julie K. Seymour

    Partner / Strategic Impact Partner


    • Chicago
    • Office312.977.4353
    • jkseymour@nixonpeabody.com
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    Introduction

    Julie Seymour represents and advises banks, borrowers (including hospitals, health systems, educational and cultural institutions, and long-term care providers), governmental issuers, underwriters, and trustees in all aspects of tax-exempt and taxable financings.
     

    Julie currently serves on Nixon Peabody’s Management Committee.

    Practice Areas

    Public FinanceCorporate & FinanceHealthcareProject FinanceMuseums & Foundations

    Industries

    Financial ServicesHealthcareHigher EducationNonprofit OrganizationsBanking & Finance

    My focus

    In my finance practice, I regularly serve as bank, borrower, underwriter, and bond counsel on transactions for health systems, colleges and universities, cultural institutions, and other nonprofit entities across the country. This work involves the underwriting or direct purchase of tax-exempt bonds and credit and/or liquidity facilities issued to support tax-exempt and taxable municipal securities. I also counsel conduit borrowers in structuring and negotiating taxable and tax-exempt financing transactions and negotiate and draft documents in a manner that maximizes flexibility and protection for those borrowers. During my career, I have worked on billions of dollars worth of financings across many states, including variable and fixed-rate bonds, put bonds, self-liquidity bonds, lines of credit, accounts receivable financings, and swaps, as well as secured, unsecured, and syndicated lending transactions.

    Looking ahead

    I anticipate increased demand for timely and detailed disclosure regarding privately placed bonds. In addition, as the country’s healthcare providers face various operational challenges, I anticipate assisting those providers and their bank partners work through covenant defaults and restructurings.

    Insights

    • Speaker, BondLink Webinar, “COVID-19 Disclosures: What We’ve Learned & Lessons For Going Forward”, Virtual, June 17, 2021
    • Julie speaks regularly on tax-exempt finance and healthcare lending issues.

    Representative experience

    • Representing Cook County, Illinois, as co-bond counsel for its $280 million General Obligation Series 2022 Bonds.
    • Representing various banks in connection with the restructuring of over $750 million in indebtedness of a major health system, including the direct purchase of tax-exempt bonds, term loans, lines of credit, and liquidity facilities to support publicly traded bonds
    • Representing numerous banks in establishing lines of credit on behalf of healthcare institutions, colleges, and universities across the country
    • Representing a bank syndicate in connection with a $700 million line of credit in favor of a major public university system
    • Representing the largest Catholic healthcare system in Illinois in connection with the restructuring of over $1 billion in tax-exempt bonds to refinance existing debt and finance new capital projects
    • Representing two separate hospital providers located in Indiana and Wisconsin in connection with tax-exempt bond issues to finance replacement hospital facilities
    • Negotiating with tax-exempt bondholders to obtain a waiver of various financial covenant defaults by a health system
    • Representing an underwriter in connection with bonds issued on behalf of public charter schools across the country.

    Admitted to practice

    Illinois

    Education

    Rockford College, B.A., cum laude
    University of Illinois College of Commerce and Business Administration, M.B.A.
    University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., cum laude

    Professional activities

    • American Health Lawyers Association
    • Chicago Bar Association
    • Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys
    • Illinois Bar Association
    • National Association of Bond Lawyers
    • Women in Public Finance
    • Serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Presbyterian Homes (including serving on its Governance and Finance Committees).
    • Previously served as a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers’ Steering Committee and chair of the “Current Issues in Healthcare Finance (Non-Tax Matters)” for its annual Bond Attorneys’ Workshop.

    Recognition

    • Crain’s Chicago Business has selected Julie as one of the publication’s “2022 Notable Women in Law,” which recognizes women in practice for at least ten years who “serve as role models or mentors to other female attorneys and show leadership in professional organizations and civic and community initiatives.”
    • Julie was selected, through a peer-review survey, for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2023 in the fields of Health Care Law and Public Finance Law (listed since 2013) and designated as the 2023 and 2019 Public Finance Law “Lawyer of the Year” for Chicago, Illinois.
    • Julie has been recognized for exceptional standing in the legal community in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2022 for Healthcare (Illinois). She has also been recognized in previous years. Julie was selected as a leading lawyer in health law and public finance law in 2017 by Leading Lawyers Magazine. She is also recommended in The Legal 500 United States 2019 editorial for Industry focus—Health Care: Service providers.

    In the News

    • The Bond Buyer

      Billion-dollar deal will cement an Illinois healthcare merger

      This article on a $1 billion financing deal that further advances NorthShore University Health System’s merger with Edward-Elmhurst Health mentions NP as borrower’s counsel. Chicago Project Finance & Public Finance partner Julie Seymour represented NorthShore University Health System on the deal.
      March 8, 2022
    • Modern Healthcare

      COVID-19 sinks not-for-profit hospitals' operating margins

      This article, covering the pandemic’s impact on not-for-profit hospitals, quotes Chicago Project Finance & Public Finance partner Julie Seymour on how these hospitals have managed their expenses and reallocated resources in response to reduced demand for patient services.
      March 25, 2021
    • The Bond Buyer

      With budget in rearview, Cook County turns sights to borrowing plans

      This article mentions the firm for serving as bond counsel to Cook County, IL, in its new money and refunding deals totaling about $600 million. The NP team included Chicago partner Julie Seymour, San Francisco partner Travis Gibbs and New York City counsel Abbie Olsen, all in the Project Finance & Public Finance group.
      Dec 22, 2020
    • The Bond Buyer

      University of Chicago and several Illinois health systems prepping deals

      This article mentions Nixon Peabody as borrower’s counsel for NorthShore University Health System’s plan to sell new-money and refunding debt next week. Chicago Project Finance and Public Finance partner Julie Seymour and associate Gretchen Sherwood were the deal attorneys.
      March 3, 2020
    • Law360

      Evaluating SEC Plan For New Municipal Issuer Disclosures

      Public finance partners Julie Seymour (Chicago), Liz Columbo (New York) and Dan Deaton (Los Angeles) published a contributed article on the SEC’s proposed amendment to Exchange Act Rule 15c2-12 and what it could mean for market participants.
      March 13, 2017
    • The Bond Buyer

      Voluntary Disclosure on Direct Loans Seen as Falling Short

      Chicago Public Finance partner Julie Seymour is quoted in this article about how disclosure remains a grey area in the growing direct placement market.
      July 1, 2015

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