Jerry G. Peterson
Office Information
Jerry has served as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel in numerous financings in 25 states and in the District of Columbia.
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- Associations
- Bar Admissions
- Distinctions
- Education & Honors
- Experience
- In the News
- Papers, Presentations, & Publications
- Recent Blogs
Bar Admissions
- Georgia, 1969
Distinctions
- Martindale-Hubbell®
- AV®-Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated, 1979-2020
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Lawyer of the Year, Public Finance (Atlanta), 2022
- Public Finance Law, 2019-2022
- Georgia Trend
- Legal Elite, 2021
Education & Honors
- Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 1968
- Wheaton College, A.B., Business and Economics, 1964
Experience
- Served as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, bank counsel, borrower's counsel, and issuer's counsel in traditional governmental issues and in conduit financings.
- Participated in bond transactions in 25 states plus the District of Columbia.
- Experience in financing hospitals, other types of health care facilities, continuing care retirement communities, higher education facilities, and multifamily housing projects.
- Bond counsel or underwriter's counsel in connection with bond issues to finance acute care hospitals in Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, and New York.
- Bond counsel in connection with approximately $348,445,000 of revenue bonds to finance a proton therapy facility located in Atlanta, Georgia that is operated by Emory Healthcare’s Winship Cancer Institute.
- Bond counsel or underwriter's counsel in connection with over $1 billion of bond issues to finance continuing care retirement communities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
- Bond counsel or underwriter's counsel in connection with over $1 billion of bond issues to finance student housing and other university facilities in California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Vermont.
- Bond counsel or underwriter’s counsel in connection with bond issues to finance skilled nursing or assisted living facilities in numerous states, including Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
- Borrower's counsel in connection with bond issues to finance affordable housing, retirement, and educational facilities. More...
- Underwriter's counsel in connection with bond issues to finance charter schools in Arizona and North Carolina.
- Letter of credit bank counsel with bond issues to finance student housing and other university facilities, continuing care retirement communities, facilities of non-profit organizations, and government facilities.
- Letter of credit bank counsel and underwriter’s counsel in connection with financing for a major U.S. airport.
- Bank counsel in connection with lines of credit issued to healthcare organizations.
- Counsel to offerors in tender offers for outstanding revenue bonds.
- Primary counsel to a large transportation company in connection with its initial public offering and subsequent subordinated note offering.
In the News
- Two Butler Snow Attorneys Named 2021 Legal Elite by Georgia Trend
- 237 Butler Snow Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2022
- 198 Butler Snow Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2021
- 173 Butler Snow Attorneys Named in Best Lawyers® 2020, 19 Named “Lawyer of the Year”
- Butler Snow Ranked as a Top 10 Private Bond Counsel Firm Nationally by Thomson Reuters Top Legal Counsel Review
- Butler Snow Ranked as Top 10 Bond Counsel Firm for First Half of 2017
- Butler Snow Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets Group Launches PFI Blog
- Service Elevated
- Peck Shaffer's Atlanta Office Relocates to Butler Snow More...
- Butler Snow Expands National Public Finance Practice - 9 Attorneys Join in Denver and Atlanta
Papers, Presentations, & Publications
- Panelist, Bond Attorney’s Workshop, National Association of Bond Lawyers.