Lesly Gaynor Murray

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Lesly is an experienced public finance attorney, focusing on municipal bonds, real estate and project finance, structured finance, and economic development incentives.
Biography – View PDF Bio
- Associations
- Bar Admissions
- Civic Involvement
- Distinctions
- Education & Honors
- Experience
- In the News
- Recent Blogs
Bar Admissions
- Georgia, 1977
Civic Involvement
- Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, Chair of the Board of Directors
Distinctions
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Lawyer of the Year, Public Finance Law (Atlanta), 2021
- Public Finance Law, 2015-2022
Education & Honors
- University of Georgia, J.D., cum laude, 1977
- Editorial Board, Georgia Law Review
- Vanderbilt University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1974
- Phi Beta Kappa
Experience
- Extensive experience serving as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, issuer’s disclosure counsel and special counsel to state and local governments and governmental issuers, as well as counsel to 501(c)(3) entities, project developers, private placement purchasers, corporate trustees and other participants in public finance transactions.
- Experience includes a broad cross section of short-term and long-term financing structures and security structures, taxable and tax exempt financings, general obligation and revenue bonds, tax anticipation and bond anticipation notes, equipment leases and project lease secured bonds, certificates of participation, senior and subordinate multi-tier security structures and multi-mode interest rate structures.
- Has served as bond counsel or underwriter’s counsel for financings of a variety of governmental facilities, public utilities, transportation projects, convention centers, sports facilities and arenas, economic development projects, public and private schools and universities, hospitals, single-family and multi-family housing and governmentally owned housing developments.
- Experience also includes a variety of current and advance refundings, restructuring transactions, workouts and change of use transactions.
- Representation as bond counsel and special counsel to state and local governments and governmental agencies and authorities also has included work on public private partnership projects, privatizing formerly governmental facilities, forming governmental instrumentalities, forming tax advantaged districts or zones and drafting governmental policies and legislation.
In the News
- 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
- Inside Counsel - Butler Snow Team Hits Home Run with Braves' Stadium Financing
- Butler Snow Guides $377 Million Bond Deal for Braves Stadium - Law360
- Cobb County, Ga. and Butler Snow Close Bond Transaction for New Atlanta Braves Stadium
- Butler Snow Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets Group Launches PFI Blog