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Laura H. Theilmann
Partner
Louisville, KY
Partner
Louisville, KY
Laura assists a broad range of clients, including non-profit corporations, educational facilities, state and local governments, as well as manufacturing clients successfully plan, structure and complete their capital, financing and commercial projects and has extensive experience serving as bond counsel in the multifamily industry, particularly in the area of affordable housing. She has served as bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel, trustee’s counsel, counsel to for-profit, non-profit and governmental entities and counsel to conduit borrowers in many types of transactions including interim financings, variable-rate and fixed-rate debt issuances, general obligation debt issuances, pooled financings, various governmental economic development incentives and financing leases. Laura is a frequent speaker on the topic of Energy Project Assessment Districts in Kentucky.
$1,890,187 Energy Project Assessment District Financing in Murray, Kentucky – March 2024 – EPAD/PACE Counsel, representing GreenRock Capital as capital provider
$10,788,438 Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resilience Financing in The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee – July 2024 – C-PACER Counsel, representing GreenRock Capital as capital provider
$40,500,000 Kentucky Housing Corporation Multifamily Note (Governmental)(Laurel at the Woodlands Project), Series 2023 – Bond Counsel
$26,400,000 Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority Multifamily Housing Revenue Note, Series 2024 (Emerson Place Apartments Project– Bond Counsel
$44,040,993.70 Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government Industrial Building Revenue Bonds (Vesta Derby Oaks Project) Convertible Capital Appreciation, Series 2022A – Bond Counsel
$4,150,000 Bowling Green (KY) Independent School District Finance Corporation School Building Revenue Bonds, Series 2021 – Bond Counsel
University of Kentucky, J.D., Moot Court Board
Western Kentucky University, B.S., Finance, summa cum laude
United States District Court
Western District of Kentucky & United States District Court
Eastern District of Kentucky
The Best Lawyers in America®, Public Finance, 2021-2026, “Lawyer of the Year,” 2021.
Recognized as one of the “Top Lawyers” in the area of Project Finance Law and Public Finance Law by Louisville Magazine, 2013-2014.
Louisville Bar Association
Kentucky Bar Association
National Association of Bond Lawyers
Listed in the Bond Buyer’s Directory of Municipal Bond Dealers of the United States (the “Red Book”)
Saint Benedict Center for Early Childhood Education (a Metro United Way agency), former Board Member & Treasurer
Focus Louisville, Graduate
Jefferson County Public School System, Tutor & Mentor
Southeast Christian Church, Member
Co-author, “C-PACE Laws Offer Boost for Sustainable Development,” Law360, July 11, 2023
April 15, 2025 | Blogs
Kentucky local governments now have an additional tool to help address their housing shortages thank...
January 22, 2024 | Blogs
Proposed Tax Bill Could Be a Game-Changer for Affordable Housing Nationwide by Increasing LIHTC Pool...
May 30, 2023 | Publications
A version of this article was published in Law360’s Expert Analysis. The Origins of PACE The p...
May 2, 2022 | Publications
COVID-19 and the resulting lockdowns illustrated the importance of the availability of telecommunica...
March 11, 2022 | Publications
The 2021 calendar year wrapped up with the biggest expansion of exempt facility bonds in a decade in...
October 8, 2021 | Blogs
In the multifamily industry, 4% low-income housing tax credits (“4% LIHTCs”) have long served as...
June 3, 2021 | Publications
On May 10, the Treasury Department released preliminary guidance regarding the distribution and us...
January 21, 2021 | Coronavirus Response Team
The affordable housing industry has used 4% Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (“4% Credits”) to fin...
June 10, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
The Federal Reserve expanded the Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) eligibility criteria on June 3, ...
May 21, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
The Federal Reserve recently announced that it’s Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) is taking ...
April 30, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
Overview The Federal Reserve announced that it was expanding the scope of the Municipal Liquidity Fa...
April 29, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
As state and local governments continue to take actions to protect the safety and well-being of thei...
April 21, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
In an effort to support the flow of credit and liquidity to state and local governments during the C...
March 23, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team
As issuers and other obligated persons continue to navigate the implications of COVID-19, now is an ...
February 13, 2020 | Publications
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced in September 2019 that it would release a sta...