Magee

Emily F. Magee is a member of Butler Snow’s Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets group. Emily focuses her practice on public finance, health care finance and structured lending matters. Emily’s experience in public and healthcare finance includes serving as bond counsel, underwriter’s or purchaser’s counsel, disclosure counsel and borrower’s counsel and trustee’s counsel. Emily often represents national and regional financial institutions and non-bank financial companies in a variety of transactions.

• Public Finance
• Housing Finance
• Hospital & Healthcare Finance
• Governmental Finance
• Commercial Finance

Emily has extensive experience with financings for governmental capital improvements and infrastructure, utilities, airports, seaports, as well as private and public hospitals and other health care facilities, multi-state health systems, housing, senior living facilities, higher education, charter schools and other educational facilities, 501(c)(3) organizations, industrial development, community development and redevelopment. Transaction types include public debt offerings, credit and liquidity facilities, master lease-purchase arrangements, pooled loan programs, commercial paper programs, energy lease financing for guaranteed energy savings contracts, and complex interest rate hedging transactions.

• Bond counsel to local housing finance authorities in connection with tax-exempt financing for affordable housing developments throughout the state of Florida
• Bond counsel to issuer in connection with $200 tax-exempt line of credit for airport expansion
• Representation of several national banks in $200 million aggregate par amount of privately placed tax-exempt bonds in multi-jurisdictional hospital system
• Bond and borrower’s counsel to non-profit charter school in connection with multi-tiered private placement transaction in $30,000,000 aggregate principal amount of bonds for expansion project
• Representation of underwriter in connection with $110,000,000 publicly offered bonds for private university
• Bond counsel to debtor in bankruptcy in connection with $150,000,000 bond exchange
• Bond and borrower’s counsel in connection with highly structured tax-exempt financing in an aggregate principal amount of over $100,000,000 for a senior living facility
• Representation of specialty equipment lender in connection with tax-exempt and taxable finance leasing transactions in over 20 states
• Bond Counsel for an approximately $165 million multifamily housing tax-exempt bond transaction
• Bond and borrower’s counsel to a nonprofit senior living community in connection with its expansion construction project and the related $114 million-tax exempt financing
• Special counsel to a national HIV/AIDs organization in connection with a $90,000,000 taxable financing
• Representation of a specialty tax-exempt bond investor in connection with its purchase of community development district revenue bonds and related matters
• Representation of specialty lender in connection with energy financing leasing transactions relating to guaranteed energy savings contracts in Florida and Mississippi
• Representation of specialty lender with focus on sustainable infrastructure lending in connection with no capital outlay transaction

• Fellow, American College of Bond Counsel
• Best Lawyers in America®
  • Public Finance Law, 2023-2024
• Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business
  • Public Finance (Florida), 2013-2022
• Florida Trend, Legal Elite, 2017
• Jacksonville Business Journal
  • 40 Under 40
  • Woman of Influence

• Florida, 2000
• North Carolina, 2003

• University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2000
  • Member, Order of the Coif
• Florida State University, B.S., summa cum laude, 1997

• National Association of Bond Lawyers
• Women in Public Finance (Florida)