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S. Bradford Butler
Senior Associate
Louisville, KY
Senior Associate
Louisville, KY
Brad is a senior associate in the Real Estate Practice Group and serves on the leadership team for the Multifamily Housing Industry Team. He has extensive experience representing developers, investors, syndicators, and lenders across the country in the multifamily housing industry, particularly in the areas of affordable housing and opportunity zone development. Brad routinely advises developers and investors in the structuring and closing of new construction and rehabilitation deals involving state and federal low-income housing tax credits, historic rehabilitation tax credits, and multiple layers of financing, including federal, state and local loan and grant programs.
Brad is a member of the American Bar Association’s Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law and serves on the Tax Credits and Equity Financing Committee. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch for 2021 in the areas of Real Estate Law, Tax Law, and Banking & Finance Law. Brad was also a member of YPAL’s Emerging Leaders Program in the Spring of 2016. He is a proud Kentucky Colonel and currently serves as a past president of the Kentucky alumni chapter of the University of Miami (FL).
Representation of a national syndicator as investor with respect to the construction and/or rehabilitation of more than 6,750 multifamily housing units across 20 states with total project costs exceeding $1.4 billion dollars in the past 5 years.
Representation of a developer in the successful work-out of a situation involving a defaulted $18,675,000 tax-exempt bond loan, low-income housing tax credit equity, and substantial land use restrictions.
Representation of a large regional bank in making a construction loan and an equity investment in a low-income housing tax project involving 9% tax credits.
Representation of multiple developers and syndicators in the structuring of opportunity zone funds with total equity exceeding $10 million dollars.
Representation of a national syndicator as investor with respect to the acquisition of a multifamily housing complex located in North Carolina, involving a partial RAD conversion, Section 8 HAP contract, HOPE VI Loan, and tax-exempt bond issuance.
Representation of an investor with respect to the acquisition, rehabilitation and construction of a multifamily housing complex involving low-income housing tax credits, historic rehabilitation tax credits, and two condominium regimes.
Representation of an investor with respect to the acquisition and rehabilitation of a multifamily housing complex utilizing federal and state low-income housing tax credits with collateralized tax-exempt bonds and HUD 223(f) financing.
Representation of a developer in the acquisition of a vacant factory and its subsequent redevelopment into an assisted living facility involving historic rehabilitation tax credits and traditional bank financing.
University of Kentucky, J.D., cum laude
University of Miami, Florida, B.B.A., Entrepreneurship and minor in Marketing
Kentucky Real Estate Investors Association
Young Professionals Association of Louisville
American Bar Association
Kentucky Bar Association
Louisville Bar Association
YPAL Cares, Inc., Board of Directors & Secretary, 2016-2017
The Louisville Chorus, Inc., Board of Directors, 2016-2017
Louisville ‘Canes (UM Alumni Group), Past President, 2016-Present
Honorable Order of the Kentucky Colonels, Member, 2016-Present
YPAL Emerging Leaders Program, Graduate, Spring 2016
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