Janice Hetland is a shareholder in Financial Services at Polsinelli Shughart and is the chair of the firm’s Affordable Housing and Tax Credit Finance and Development practice group.
Ms. Hetland has a national practice in real estate development and finance, with a specialty in tax structuring and finance of developments financed using tax credits and other tax incentives. She has extensive knowledge and experience in structuring transactions financed with such federal incentives as federal historic tax credits, federal new markets tax credits, federal low-income housing tax credits, and HUD grants, HOPE VI advances and FHA insured loans, as well as state and local incentives, such as tax credits and tax increment financing. Her clients include developers (both for profit and non-profit), direct investors, equity funds, lenders and community development entities. Ms. Hetland also represents developers of market rate commercial, office and multi-family residential properties and commercial lenders in a variety of real estate and asset based loan transactions.
Developers and investors turn to her to guide their acquisition, development and finance of commercial and residential real estate developments, whether market rate, mixed-income or affordable housing. Ms. Hetland’s practice also involves “workouts” of tax credit investments during their compliance periods and development and implementation of exit strategies for investors and developers.