RELATED SERVICES
Drew Slone focuses her practice on the use of special districts (public improvement districts, tax increment reinvestment zones, municipal utility districts, municipal management districts and the like) and development incentives (380 Agreements) as tools for the development of master-planned residential and mixed-use communities. She has experience representing issuers, underwriters and developers in municipal bond and economic development transactions for governmental capital projects, residential real estate development, utility projects, education projects and health care projects.
Drew’s experience ranges from traditional general obligation bonds to development bonds, with a particular emphasis on complex special high-yield revenue monetization tools. She frequently represents underwriters in municipal bond public offerings, and counsels on securities law disclosure issues, and MSRB and SEC rules.
Drew also has experience negotiating and implementing economic development incentive packages with state and local governments for companies that are relocating or expanding.
Drew Slone focuses her practice on the use of special districts (public improvement districts, tax increment reinvestment zones, municipal utility districts, municipal management districts and the like) and development incentives (380 Agreements) as tools for the development of master-planned residential and mixed-use communities. She has experience representing issuers, underwriters and developers in municipal bond and economic development transactions for governmental capital projects, residential real estate development, utility projects, education projects and health care projects.
Drew’s experience ranges from traditional general obligation bonds to development bonds, with a particular emphasis on complex special high-yield revenue monetization tools. She frequently represents underwriters in municipal bond public offerings, and counsels on securities law disclosure issues, and MSRB and SEC rules.
Drew also has experience negotiating and implementing economic development incentive packages with state and local governments for companies that are relocating or expanding.
Drew’s representative experience includes:
- Bond counsel on over $3 billion worth of capital financing
- Represented cities in multiple phases of financing and development of residential and commercial real estate projects through special district assessment-backed bonds
- Represented real estate developers for special districts utilized as development financing vehicles
- Served as underwriter’s counsel in first-of-its-kind monetization of tax increment/TIF incentives
- Disclosure counsel to cities and special districts
- Represented secondary purchasers of assessment-backed reimbursement agreements
- Represented North Texas city in the issuance and development of subordinate lien commercial paper program
- Represented Korean auto manufacturer and suppliers in financing and negotiating incentives for major manufacturing plant headquarters located in Georgia
- Counsel to trustees on multi-family residential housing developments, charter school financings and other conduit financing transactions
CREDENTIALS
- J.D., with honors, University of North Carolina School of Law, 2007
Senior Staff, North Carolina Law Review - B.A., Political Science, magna cum laude, Transylvania University, 2004
- Texas, 2014
- Georgia, 2007
- Chair, National Association of Bond Lawyers Securities Law and Disclosure Committee
- Member, State Bar of Texas
- Member, Texas Women in Public Finance
- Past Executive Council Member
- Member, Urban Land Institute
- Community Development Product Council
- P3 Product Council
- ULI North Texas Center for Leadership (2018 Graduate)
- ULI North Texas Center for Leadership 2019 and 2020 Steering Committee
- Member, Dallas Bar Association
- Member, Dallas Women Lawyers Association
- Recipient, Girls on the Run International Remarkable Volunteer Award, Girls on the Run International (2020)
- Member, Urban Land Institute North Texas Center for Leadership (2018)
- Named, Legal Elite, Georgia Trend magazine (2014)
- Member, Leadership DeKalb (Class of 2012)
- Named, Destiny Fund Non-Profit Leadership Honoree, Atlanta Women’s Foundation (2009)
- Board of Directors, Girls on the Run DFW (2018-Present)
- Former Chair and Co-Chair of the Board
- Governance Committee, The Love Pit Dog Rescue (2016-Present)
- Former Adoption Coordinator
- Board Member, Girls on the Run Atlanta (Race Sponsorship Chair, 2011-2014)
- Board of Directors, Atlanta Women's Health Center (Development Chair, 2008-2012)
- Board of Directors, Girls on the Run DFW (2018-Present)