Angela M Christy

Practice Areas

Angela Christy is an affordable housing attorney located in Minneapolis who provides strategic and creative legal counsel that helps drive efficient tax credit transactions. She focuses on housing—particularly affordable housing—projects and community development matters on behalf of nonprofit and for-profit developers, investors, and government entities. She has handled more than 300 Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) transactions throughout the United States.

Angela assists developers in ensuring that their financing sources are compatible and properly structured to meet tax credit requirements. She focuses on creating real estate structures for mixed-use projects that align with the financing, often resulting in the use of condominiums, vertical subdivisions, ground leases, and reciprocal easement agreements.

Through the use of bonds, tax credits, government funding sources, and other affordable housing instruments, Angela has aided developers in innovative housing and mixed-use developments. She also has represented lenders and investors in tax credit projects.

Career

Admissions:

Minnesota

North Dakota

Professional Memberships

ABA Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, past Chair

Minnesota Certified Real Property Specialist

American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL)

MSBA, Real Property Council, past Chair

Minnesota Real Estate Institute, Co-Chair

Personal

University of Minnesota Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1981)

North Dakota State University (B.A. 1978)