Jessica’s practice focuses on financing transactions for health care, senior living, educational and other nonprofit organizations across the country, serving as bond counsel, borrower’s counsel, underwriter’s counsel and lender’s counsel on more than 300 issues totaling over $40 billion. She also serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Capital Markets and Commercial Lending Practice Group.
Jessica’s extensive experience includes transactions across a wide variety of financing structures, including fixed-rate, variable-rate, multi-modal, direct purchase, credit-enhanced bond and note issuances, as well as traditional credit facilities. Jessica has particular experience with inaugural financings, and with large and complex financing transactions for affiliations and other corporate reorganizations, including working through creative solutions to the establishment of credit groups for newly formed systems.
Jessica’s significant experience in financing transactions with senior living and long-term care providers includes public and private bond issuances, secured and unsecured bank loans and debt restructuring transactions, aggregating more than $1 billion.
Jessica additionally provides guidance to tax-exempt borrowers on post-issuance compliance matters, including secondary market disclosures, "remedial actions" for changes in use of bond-financed facilities and information reporting for the IRS Form 990, Schedule K.
Education
- University of Minnesota (J.D., magna cum laude, 2007)
- Order of the Coif
- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (B.A., 2003)
Bar Admission
- Missouri, 2011
- Wisconsin, 2007
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- National Association of Bond Lawyers
- American Health Lawyers Association
Recognition
- Selected for Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” in Kansas City, Missouri, for Public Finance Law, 2026
- Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America® for:
- Banking and Finance, 2023-2026
- Public Finance, 2022-2026
