Kimberly D. Magrini serves as counsel to investment banking firms and investors, municipalities, issuers, and trustees in all types of public finance and municipal securities transactions. Her experience also includes representing a variety of 501(c)(3) organizations, including hospitals and other health care organizations, colleges and universities, private and charter schools, and museums.
Kim focuses her practice on various municipal securities law issues, municipal finance and recovery, project finance including public-private partnerships (P3), and housing finance. Through a secondment in the investment banking legal department at Goldman Sachs, Kim has experience handling various legal, regulatory and compliance issues related to municipal securities, including remarketings, commercial paper programs, the municipal advisor rule, G-17 considerations, MSRB rules, and internal policies and procedures.
Services
Professional Highlights
Pro Bono Experience
Kim represented players on the Women's National Ice Hockey Team as they pursued gender equality with USA Hockey. She also serves as a child advocate through the Support Center for Child Advocates and has also represented clients through the Homeless Advocacy Project.
Professional Activities
National Association of Bond Lawyers
Pennsylvania Association of Bond Lawyers
Ballard Spahr Pro Bono Committee
Delaware Valley Environmental Inn of Court, student member (2009-2010)
Kim represented the USA Women's rugby National Team as a player from 2006 to 2011, co-captaining the squad competing in the Women's Rugby World Cup in 2010. She served as an International Athlete representative to USA Rugby Congress and a member of the Athlete's Advisory Council to USA Rugby and the U.S. Olympic Committee for the sport of Rugby. Kim also served as Chairperson, and in other board capacities, for Keystone Griffins Rugby Club, a Philadelphia-area women's rugby club, from 2007 to 2014.
Recognition & Accomplishments
The Legal 500, Finance - Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy) - Municipal, 2021
Named one of The Legal Intelligencer's 2018 Lawyers on the Fast Track
Member, First Judicial District of Pennsylvania Pro Bono Roll of Honor 2012-2019
Speaking Engagements
Speaker, “Drafting Disclosure Policies and Procedures,” National Association of Bond Lawyers The Institute, March 3-5, 2021
Speaker, "PART III: COVID-19 and the Education Industry – Pressing Issues Facing Every Institution," Ballard Spahr webinar, June 10, 2020
Panelist, “Infrastructure Projects & Promise in the Region,” The Bond Buyer’s National Outlook Conference, New York, NY, January 28, 2020
Credentials
Education
Drexel University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2010)
Drexel University (M.S.E.S. 2006)
Pennsylvania State University (Schreyer Honors College) (B.S. 2004)
Admissions
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New York
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey