Laura L. Bilas

Experience

Laura L. Bilas is a partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. She is the chair of the firm’s Finance and Public Finance Practices and focuses her practice on public finance, health care finance and structured lending matters. Laura’s experience includes serving as bond counsel, borrower’s counsel, underwriter’s counsel, disclosure counsel and credit enhancement provider’s counsel for numerous public finance and other structured transactions, including general obligation, special service area, special assessment, tax increment, multi-family housing, healthcare and industrial development financings. She is a member of the firm’s Finance & Financial Institutions; Healthcare Finance and Public Finance Practices; The Healthcare and Energy Industry Teams; as well as the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) Team.

Laura’s practice includes service as bond counsel, borrower’s counsel, underwriter’s counsel and credit enhancement provider’s counsel for 501(c)(3) financings, including financings for healthcare, cultural, educational and assisted living institutions.

Laura has served as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, disclosure counsel and issuer’s counsel to the Illinois Housing Development Authority, other state and local housing authorities and to lending institutions on housing financings, aggregating in excess of $1 billion. She also represents developers, lenders and other market participants on PACE (property assessed clean energy) financings.

Laura represents lenders and investment banking firms in connection with securitizations of municipal debt and the private placement of senior and subordinate debt instruments. She has also served as senior lenders’ counsel, credit enhancer’s and liquidity provider’s counsel for over 300 financings for domestic and foreign bank clients.

Practice Areas

Corporate

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

Finance

Financial Institutions

Health Care Finance

Opportunity Zones

Post-Acute Care & Senior Housing

Public Finance

Public Private Partnerships (P3), Transportation & Infrastructure

Industry Sector Expertise

Energy

Health Care & Life Sciences

Racial Justice & Equity

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Illinois

Michigan

* The Illinois Supreme Court does not recognize certifications of specialties in the practice of law and no award or recognition is a requirement to practice law in Illinois.

Education