Having grown up in a family-owned business, Amanda learned the practical realities of what it takes to run a successful enterprise early on, and she applies this knowledge and her business degree to help clients with large, complex deals. When working on challenging transactions, she blends years of business acumen with her legal and organizational skills to deliver results that best align with client objectives.
Amanda works with state and local issuers in connection with tax-exempt bond financing, routinely handling the due diligence, document negotiation, and closing processes. In this realm, Amanda advises issuers and borrowers on use of tax-exempt funded projects and post-issuance tax compliance. Amanda applies her finely tuned analytical skills and business street-smarts to finding creative solutions in the midst of intense negotiating and transactional situations.
Amanda regularly represents industrial development agencies (IDA) and local development corporations (LDC) in connection with straight-lease transactions. She drafts documents to accommodate the many different permutations these deals can have, and, as a result, has a keen sense of the many intricacies that appear, allowing her to identify and solve problems early on in the transaction process. Amanda also advises her IDA and LDC clients on day-to-day compliance issues.
On the development side, Amanda represents developers and owners of commercial and industrial real estate projects, data centers, fossil fuel–generating facilities, renewable energy projects, and interstate submarine and terrestrial electric transmission lines. She applies her knowledge of available state and local benefits to help her clients identify and achieve property tax and sales tax exemptions and has extensive experience negotiating payment in lieu of tax (PILOT) agreements and related documents to properly implement those exemptions. Amanda studies the business and economic structure of complicated business deals so she can best advise and represent her clients throughout the course of each transaction.