Julie K. Seymour

Julie devotes her professional practice to tax-exempt finance, healthcare law and tax-exempt organizations. She is regularly involved in tax-exempt financings, representing borrowers (including healthcare entities, life care facilities and educational and cultural institutions), underwriters, banks (as liquidity and/or credit enhancers), issuers (cities, counties, states or state agencies) and trustees. Since 1990, Julie has been involved in billions of dollars of tax-exempt financings, including fixed and variable rate structures, credit enhanced, auction rate securities, accounts receivable and derivatives. In addition, she represents and counsels hospitals and health systems in structuring financing transactions, as well as in corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures.

Julie’s recent experience includes:

• Representing two major Chicago-based healthcare systems in connection with the issuance of over $1 billion of tax-exempt bonds to refinance existing debt and to finance capital projects at the systems’ healthcare facilities.
• Representing two national underwriters in connection with the issuance of over $500 million of tax-exempt bonds to finance the construction of a women’s hospital for a major academic medical center.
• Negotiating with tax-exempt bondholders to obtain a waiver of an impending financial covenant default by an inner-city Chicago hospital.
• Assisting a major healthcare system in connection with an audit by the Internal Revenue Service of its outstanding bonds.
• Representing various letter of credit banks in connection with tax-exempt bond issues for healthcare providers located in Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa.
• Providing on-going representation to the dealer in a pooled financing transaction involving the issuance of over $150 million of commercial paper on behalf of several Chicago area universities, health systems and cultural institutions.

Julie is a regular speaker on tax-exempt finance, health care and tax-exempt organization issues. She also is a regular panelist at the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL) annual seminar.