Kathleen C McKinney

Practice Areas

Corporate Organization & Governance

Mergers & Acquisitions

Nonprofit Finance

Public Finance

Career

Kathy McKinney assists healthcare and educational institutions in mergers, acquisitions, expansions and affiliations, with a focus on addressing legal strategies for taxable and tax-exempt debt and other financing options.

She has also been bond, issuers’, disclosure and underwriters’ counsel in revenue bond issues, resulting in $4 billion of capital investment in South Carolina in the past three years.

She serves as bond counsel for many of South Carolina’s leading hospitals. Kathy also serves as bond counsel for colleges and universities, charter schools, foundations and continuing care retirement and life care projects. She has assisted in establishing best practices in corporate governance for public and nonprofit institutions.

Kathy served as an Independent Director of the FHLBanks Office of Finance Board of Directors from 2010-2022, where she served on the Audit Committee and was Vice Chair of the Governance Committee. Kathy was the first South Carolinian to hold this position. She has since been elected to serve a four-year term as an Independent Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank – Atlanta.

Professional Memberships

National Association of Bond Lawyers, President (2009-2010), former steering committee chair of Bond Attorneys’ Workshop, former faculty member of Fundamentals of Municipal Bond Law, Bond Attorneys’ Workshop and Tax and Securities Law Institute programs

American College of Bond Counsel, Fellow, Executive Committee (2020-Present)

Federal Home Loan Bank – Atlanta, Independent Director (2023-Present), Audit Committee, Finance Committee, Housing and Community Investment Committee

Federal Home Loan Bank Office of Finance Board of Directors (2010-2022), Independent Director, Audit Committee and Vice Chair of Governance Committee

South Carolina Historical Society, Board of Managers (2024-Present)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Textile Conservation Visiting Committee (2019-Present)

Spartanburg Methodist College, Board of Trustees (2020-Present), Immediate Past Chair

Sigal Music Museum, Board of Directors, Chair (2022-Present)

Leadership South Carolina, Advisory Committee

Greenville Humane Society, former Executive Committee Member

South Carolina Policy Council Audubon Society

Metropolitan Arts Council, Endowment Board

Riley Institute at Furman’s Diversity Leaders Initiative, Upstate Class III, Fall 2005

South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, former Chair of the Board of Trustees

Furman University, former Chair of the Board of Trustees

South Carolina State Museum Foundation, former Board Member

Greenville Symphony Orchestra, former Executive Committee, former Endowment Board Member

South Carolina Children’s Theatre, former President

Upcountry History Museum, former President

Upstate South Carolina Alliance, Founder

South Carolina Bar

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