Band 1
Provided by Valarie Allen
Commercial Finance
Derivatives, Structured Products, and Secondary Markets
Energy
Finance
Financial Services
Healthcare
Valarie Allen is Vice Chair, Public Finance, in the Government Services, Finance and Lobbying Department of Barnes & Thornburg and has spent decades advising transaction participants in the structuring, issuance, offering, remarketing, placement, restructuring and purchase of tax-exempt and taxable municipal securities, as well as other debt instruments and derivatives.
Consistently recognized as a Band 1 Public Finance practitioner by Chambers USA, Valarie serves as bond, borrower, underwriter, disclosure, purchaser’s and trustee counsel to clients nationwide across virtually all areas of public finance. Her clients include large health systems and academic medical centers; national and regional investment banking firms, commercial banks, and investors; state housing agencies and local housing authorities; colleges and universities; private and municipal utilities; and large municipal and state issuers.
Prior to entering private practice, Valarie gained broad exposure to public finance while serving in numerous capacities within Massachusetts state government, including at Massachusetts Development Finance Agency and Logan International Airport, Massachusetts Port Authority.
University of Pennsylvania Law School
J.D.
Harvard College
A.B.
Provided by Chambers
Provided by Chambers
Valarie has done it all and seen it all; she's a leader.
Valarie has done it all and seen it all; she's a leader.