Overview
Juliet Huang is a partner in the Public and Institutional Banking & Finance Group as well as the National Public Finance Department of Chapman and Cutler LLP. Juliet represents clients in a wide variety of public finance transactions, including direct lending, credit-enhancement, public offerings, municipal leasing, secondary market tax-exempt securitizations, and municipal distress workouts and restructurings. Juliet regularly serves as counsel to a broad range of financial institutions that are direct lenders and/or that provide credit and liquidity in public finance transactions. Juliet also serves as underwriter’s counsel and bond counsel on a variety of public finance transactions, including affordable housing, governmental and conduit financings and advises clients regarding securities law matters.
Juliet’s practice also focuses on the municipal leasing industry and the origination, placement, and securitization of tax-exempt and taxable installment purchase, lease-purchase, and other non-bond financing and operating lease arrangements with state and local governments (including for the benefit of qualified 501(c)(3) entities) for the acquisition, construction, equipping, and installation of a broad range of essential government buildings, facilities, equipment, and other real and personal property.
Juliet has considerable experience in financings for renewable energy, solar, and energy efficiency projects. She also represents bank-affiliated and independent lenders, investors, leasing companies, servicers, and buyers and sellers in municipal asset portfolio transactions, syndications, pooled securitizations, and other secondary market municipal asset products. Additionally, her sports finance experience includes financing transactions for a Minor League Baseball stadium and an NFL stadium.
Juliet serves as President of the Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance (AGLF) and is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL). Juliet is a frequent speaker on elective pay tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act and on topics relevant to financial institutions and investors in the municipal bond market. She served as Chair of NABL’s The Workshop 2023 Conference.
Juliet serves as Chapman's Wellness Partner, managing the firm's comprehensive wellness initiatives.
Representative Matters
- Representation of lenders, lessors, purchasers, and arrangers in connection with the financing of over $2.2 billion in energy efficiency assets, involving over 175 separate transactions and 3,000 separate energy conservation measures in more than 25 states
- Representation of a national leasing company in connection with the origination and syndication of hundreds of state, municipal, and non-profit health care leases
- Representation of bank syndicate providing liquidity support for approximately $200 million variable rate demand bonds issued by a state housing agency
- Representation of bank providing credit enhancement for approximately $140 million floating rate commercial paper issued by an airport
- Representation of lenders and institutional investors in broad range of municipal lease financing transactions for energy efficiency and solar projects for firm-term, annual appropriation or abatement lease structures
- Representation of leasing company and bank affiliate in sale and pooled tax-exempt securitization and credit enhancement of an approximately $120 million portfolio of tax-exempt municipal assets issued by local government entities in various states
- Representation of institutional investor in sale of its approximately $200 million portfolio of taxable and tax-exempt municipal bonds issued by local government entities in various states
- Representation of bondholders in negotiation of restructuring and repayment of bonds during the dissolution proceedings of a distressed municipal issuer
- Representation of bank affiliate in the purchase of $200 million of privately placed tax-exempt revenue bonds of a regional transportation commission
- Bond counsel to investor-owned utilities in connection with the issuance of pollution control revenue bonds and solid waste disposal bonds
- Underwriter's counsel to investment bank in public offering of $110 million revenue bonds issued by an airport jet-fuel consortium
- Representation of placement agent in an issuance of tax-exempt sustainability bonds on behalf of a non-profit community development financial institution which financed the equity contribution to a limited partnership to finance a 296-unit senior-designated multifamily rental housing project in Long Beach, California. The project is designed to further the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by providing secure and affordable housing for families and individuals of modest means.
Practice Focus
- Banking and Financial Services
- Bond Counsel
- Broadband Finance
- Credit Enhancement and Liquidity Facilities
- ESG Counsel and Sustainable Finance
- Governmental Revenue Bonds
- Health Care Finance
- Industrial Development Revenue Bonds
- Lease Finance
- Leases, Installment Contracts and Debt Certificates
- Municipal Asset Securitizations
- Not-for-Profit Health Care Finance
- PACE Financing
- Private Activity Bonds
- Public and Institutional Banking & Finance
- Public Finance
- Renewable Energy
- Renewable Energy Assets
- Solid Waste, Sewage and other Environmental Disposal
- Sports Finance
- State and Local Government Obligations Private Placement Group
- State Universities
- Tax-Exempt Asset and Lease Origination, Placement and Securitization
- Underwriter's Counsel
- Utility Finance
Memberships
Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance
- President
National Association of Bond Lawyers
Honors & Awards
- Lawyers of Color’s Nation’s Best list (2019).
- The Illinois Diversity Council’s Leadership Excellence in Law Award (2017).
- Leading Lawyer's "Top Lawyer under 40" in Public Finance Law (2016).
Admitted
Illinois
Education
University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 2005
Northwestern University, B.A., 1998
Notable Engagements
Sustainability Bonds to Finance Affordable Senior Housing in CaliforniaChapman served as placement agent’s counsel in an issuance of tax-exempt sustainability bonds on behalf of a non-profit community development financial institution which financed the equity contribution to a limited partnership to finance a 296-unit senior-designated multifamily rental housing project in Long Beach, California. The project is designed to further United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by providing secure and affordable housing for families and individuals of modest means.
The Bond Buyer's 2024 ESG/Green Financing Deal of the YearChapman served as counsel to Clean Power Alliance (CPA) in the issuance of $1.5 billion Clean Energy Project Revenue Bonds through the California Community Choice Financing Authority (CCCFA).
Insights
Publications
- Principal Author, "Direct Purchases of State or Local Obligations by Commercial Banks and Other Financial Institutions," National Association of Bond Lawyers. July 2017.
- Co-Author, "MSRB and FINRA Issue Joint Notice Cautioning Broker-Dealers and Municipal Advisors about Bank Loans," Journal of Investment Compliance. Vol. 17 No. 3 2016.
Presentations
- Moderator, "Basel III Impact on Municipal Finance" and "Inflation Reduction Act," Association for Governmental Leasing & Finance Annual Conference, May 1-3, 2024
- Panelist, "Funding Clean Energy Projects and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)," Illinois Association of School Business Officials, April 24-26, 2024
- First Vice Chair, National Association of Bond Lawyers The Workshop: Hybrid, October 2022
- Second Vice Chair, National Association of Bond Lawyers The Workshop: Hybrid, October 13–15, 2021
- Panelist, "Lawyer's Panel," Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance Annual Virtual Conference, May 17–18, 2021
- Panelist, ""Progressive Pathways: Adopting a D&I Growth Mindset for the C-Suite," Thomson Reuters Institute Webinar, May 13, 2021
- Presenter, "Modifications, Forbearance & Workouts: An Overview of Tax Implications and Various State Insolvency Schemes," Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance Webinar, March 18, 2021
- Panelist, "Ongoing Disclosure Undertakings and Practical Due Diligence," National Association of Bond Lawyers The Institute, March 3–5, 2021
- Panelist, "Special Revenue: Emerging Considerations," The Bond Buyer's California Public Finance Conference, September 23–25, 2019
- Chair, “Bank Direct Purchase—General Considerations,” National Association of Bond Lawyers The Workshop, September 11–13, 2019
- Panelist, "From the Midwest and Beyond: Tailored Solutions for Borrowing Needs," The Bond Buyer's Midwest Municipal Market Conference, June 5, 2019
- Moderator, "Puerto Rico Special Revenues Update," 39th Annual Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance Conference, May 8–10, 2019
- Panelist, "Pillars of Success," 39th Annual Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance Conference, May 8–10, 2019
- Panelist, "Effects of Tax Reform," The Bond Buyer's California Public Finance Conference, October 1–3, 2018
- Chair, “Bank Direct Purchase—General Considerations,” National Association of Bond Lawyers 43rd Annual Bond Attorneys’ Workshop, October 26–28, 2018
- Moderator, "Tax Reform," The Bond Buyer's Midwest Municipal Market Conference, June 21, 2018
- Panelist, "Municipal—State and Local Issues," 38th Annual Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance Conference, May 2–4, 2018
- Panelist, "Celebrating Differences: Fighting Stereotypes and Finding Common Ground," 9th Annual Illinois Women's Leadership Conference, March 7, 2018
- Chair, "Public Offerings, Limited Public Offerings, and Private Placements," National Association of Bond Lawyers 16th Annual Tax and Securities Law Institute, February 22–23, 2018
- Chair, "Bank Direct Purchases — General Considerations," National Association of Bond Lawyers 42nd Annual Bond Attorneys' Workshop, October 4–6, 2017
- Panelist, "Tax Reform: Prospective Impacts on the Municipal Market," The Bond Buyer's California Public Finance Conference, September 25–27, 2017
- Moderator, "Tax Reform: Perspectives, Process, and Implications for the Municipal Market," The Bond Buyer's Midwest Municipal Market Conference, June 8, 2017
- Panelist, "Lawyer's Panel," 37th Annual Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance Conference, May 3–5, 2017
- Chair, "Is the Direct Purchase a Loan or a Security?" National Association of Bond Lawyers 15th Annual Tax and Securities Law Institute, March 9–10, 2017
- Panelist, "Bank Direct Purchases and Other Commercial Bank Products — General Concepts" and "Tax-Exempt Leasing — Recent Developments and Advanced Topics," National Association of Bond Lawyers 41st Bond Attorneys' Workshop, October 19–21, 2016
- Moderator, “Rating Agencies’ Perspectives on Current Credit Issues,” 36th Annual Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance Conference, May 4–6, 2016
- Panelist, “Lawyers’ Panel,” 35th Annual Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance Fall Conference, November 4–6, 2015
- Panelist, “Bank Direct Purchases and Other Commercial Bank Products” and “Tax-Exempt Leasing — Recent Developments and Advanced Topics,” National Association of Bond Lawyers 40th Bond Attorney's Workshop, September 9–11, 2015
- Panelist, “Bank Direct Purchases and Other Commercial Bank Products” and “Tax-Exempt Leasing — Recent Developments and Advanced Topics,” National Association of Bond Lawyers 39th Bond Attorneys' Workshop, September 17–19, 2014
- Panelist, "Municipal Bankruptcy and the Anatomy of a Defaulted Lease," Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance / Equipment Leasing and Finance Association 2013 Public Sector Finance Forum, May 8–10, 2013
- Panelist, "Financing Considerations for Equipment Lease Purchase Agreements," 2010 Green California Conference, October 11, 2010
- Panelist, "The Alphabet Soup of Tax Credit Bonds," Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance / Equipment Leasing and Finance Association 2010 Public Sector Finance Forum, May 5–7, 2010
