USA
Practice Areas
Corporate, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), Finance, Financial Institutions, Health Care Finance, Post-Acute Care & Senior Housing, Public Finance
Career
Heidi Jeffery is a partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. Heidi focuses her practice on the representation of borrowers in sophisticated financing transactions and loan workouts. Heidi is a member of the firm’s Finance & Financial Institutions Practice. She is also a member of the firm’s Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) Team; the Health Care Finance; and the Public Finance Practices as well as the Health Care Industry Team.
Heidi also frequently represents broker-dealers in connection with municipal securities compliance matters. In addition, Heidi has experience representing banks in general lending transactions, including both secured and unsecured commercial loans. In the ESG space, she helps governmental and nonprofit clients determine policies to implement and understand what investors focus on and consider relevant.
Professional Memberships
-Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
-Member, American Health Lawyers Association
-Member, American Bar Association
Industry Sector Expertise
Health Care & Life Sciences, Providers of Health Care Services
Experience
-Corporate counsel on tax-exempt and taxable financings for national nonprofit health care system, including refinancing’s resulting from mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring
-Corporate Counsel to developer and owner/operator of a HUD 232 senior living properties
-Corporate Counsel to owner/operator of senior living facility
-Corporate counsel to borrowers of revolving and term loan credit facilities
-Disclosure counsel to various Illinois municipal issuers
-Co-Underwriter’s Counsel on The Bond Buyer’s 2012 Deal of the Year: Michigan Finance Authority $2.9 billion of Unemployment Obligation Assessment Revenue Bonds – the bonds were issued under recently adopted legislation utilizing an innovative structure to obtain AAA ratings from three major rating services
-Bond counsel on housing finance authority transactions
Education
University of Iowa College of Law
JD
Northwestern University
BS