Barbara Beckman
Barbara Beckman

Barbara R. Beckman

Counsel

Beckman@ballardspahr.com
Tel 215.864.8410
Fax 215.864.8999
Philadelphia

Barbara R. Beckman is counsel in the Public Finance Department and a member of the Health Care, CCRC Financing and Workout, and Higher Education Groups. She has acted as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, borrower's counsel, and counsel to banks providing credit enhancement in tax-exempt and taxable financings in over 20 states for retirement communities and other long-term health care facilities, colleges and universities, industrial development projects, pollution control projects, housing projects, and traditional municipal projects.

Ms. Beckman has experience with a wide range of financing structures, including traditional fixed-rate, variable-rate, and multimodal structures involving various forms of credit enhancement and liquidity support.

Pro Bono Experience

Ms. Beckman has represented abused and neglected children in Philadelphia through the Support Center for Child Advocates.

Judicial Clerkships

Hon. James R. Cavanaugh, Pennsylvania Superior Court, 1981-1983

Professional Activities

American Bar Association
Pennsylvania Bar Association
National Association of Bond Lawyers
Pennsylvania Association of Bond Lawyers

Community Activities

Montgomery County (Pennsylvania) Commission on Women and Families, past member

Board Memberships

Philadelphia Protestant Home

University of Pittsburgh School of Law (J.D. 1981, cum laude)
Member, University of Pittsburgh Law Review; Articles Editor, Journal of Law and Commerce; Member, Order of the Coif

Allegheny College (B.A. 1975, cum laude)

Pennsylvania