Kimberly D. Magrini

Kim acts as counsel to municipalities, underwriters, placement agents, and investors in a wide range of municipal financings, including distressed financings, high-yield offerings, secondary market transactions, and municipal bankruptcies and workouts. Kim has experience with issues unique to Pennsylvania law (including Act 47) and maintains a special focus on disclosure issues for distressed municipalities, including pension analysis and disclosure and securities regulatory enforcement.

In addition, Kim has significant experience in environmental, social and governance (ESG) financing initiatives, including green infrastructure, green bonds, and other renewable energy financing options and social bonds. Kim is the co-leader of the Investment Banking and Market Regulation subindustry group within the Firm’s Banking and Financial Services group, and also a part of the Firm’s ESG initiative.

Kim represents clients in P3 and public-public partnership transactions on large complex infrastructure and transportation projects across the country, including as P3 counsel to the Virginia Department of Transportation for the I-395 HOT Lanes Project and the FredEx HOT Lanes Project, the Georgia Department of Transportation for the I-285/SR 400 Reconstruction Project, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for the Middletown Station Project and Amtrak in connection with the reconstruction of Chicago Union Station, Baltimore Penn Station and Philadelphia 30th Street Station, and as bond counsel for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Rapid Bridges Replacement Project.

Kim also maintains an active housing finance practice, regularly representing issuers, investors, developers, and trustees in Low Income Housing Tax Credit housing financing transactions and single-family mortgage bond transactions. She has represented investors and developers across the country in numerous lower-tier LIHTC deals, including transactions involving solar and renewable energy credits. In addition, she has developed significant knowledge of green financing initiatives, including green infrastructure, PACE, and other renewable energy financing options.

Before entering the law, Kim worked for several years as both a legal and environmental science research assistant at Drexel University.