Kris A. Moussette

Practice Areas

Corporate & Business Transactions

Public Finance

Banking & Financial Institutions

Health Care

Nonprofit

Senior Living

Public Private Partnerships

Career

Hinckley Allen: Partner (2015 - Present)

Locke Lord LLP/Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP/Palmer & Dodge LLP: Partner (2006 - 2015), Associate (1997 - 2005)

Mirick, O'Connell, DeMallie & Lougee, LLP: Associate (1996 - 1997)

Professional Memberships

ALS Association, Massachusetts Chapter, Past Board of Trustees Chair

Boston Bar Association, Member

Boston Women in Public Finance, Board Member

Massachusetts Bar Association, Member

National Association of Bond Lawyers, Member

National Women in Public Finance, Member

Experience

Kris Moussette is a trusted advisor to nonprofit organizations, quasi-public authorities, and governmental issuers. With decades of experience serving as bond counsel, borrower’s counsel, lender’s counsel, and underwriter’s counsel, she handles all aspects of public finance, including structuring and facilitating tax-exempt and taxable bond transactions and other financing vehicles to help clients achieve their strategic goals efficiently.

Kris also serves as outside corporate counsel to several higher education institutions, advising on public-private partnerships, debt covenant compliance, corporate formation, and acquisition financing. She recently advised a nonprofit hospital system on its merger with another nonprofit teaching hospital system. Her practice includes guiding debt issuances for 501(c)(3) organizations such as private colleges and universities, secondary schools, hospitals, health care systems, and cultural institutions like museums. She also represents governmental issuers on large-scale infrastructure projects to improve airports, water, sewer, and other public facilities, and serves as bond counsel to cities and towns across Massachusetts.

Kris serves as bond counsel to The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the States of Maine and Rhode Island, and advises The Commonwealth on its infrastructure development program (I-Cubed). She is well-versed in securities law compliance and serves as disclosure counsel for a variety of clients. She has also drafted legislation to establish new bond issuers and to facilitate the combination of existing issuers.

Kris is the past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the ALS Association, Massachusetts Chapter. She earned her J.D. from Boston College Law School and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Colby College.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Maine

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Work Highlights

Serves as bond and agency counsel to the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency with respect to hundreds of tax-exempt and taxable bond transactions, including design and management of MassDevelopment’s daily, weekly and commercial paper pool loan programs and MassDevelopment’s lease program.

Serves as special counsel to The Commonwealth of Massachusetts in connection the I-Cubed program (Commonwealth Infrastructure Development Assistance).

Served as South Shore Tri-Town Development Corporation’s first and only bond counsel, including with in connection with the initial financing for the redevelopment of the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station in the towns of Abington, Rockland and Weymouth, Massachusetts.

Serves as disclosure counsel to the Massachusetts Port Authority.

Served as disclosure counsel and counsel to underwriters for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.

Represents credit providers – bond insurers and banks – in connection with distressed borrowers’ working capital needs and bond defaults.

Well-versed in the issuance of tax credit bonds, taxable century bonds and complicated security structures, including Master Trust Indentures, Intercreditor Agreements, Mortgages and other security agreements.

Structured complex refunding transactions for a number of small and large institutions, including, Harvard University, Brown University, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Tufts University, UMass Memorial Health Care and Williams College.

Structured complex documentation for 501(c)(3) and industrial development bond clients involving letters of credit, bond insurance and multi-modal, auction and fixed rate financings.

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