Jere Thompson focuses his practice on affordable housing finance and is involved in every type of financing within the sector, representing investors, syndicators, lenders, developers, and state housing finance agencies in complex transactions nationwide. He has a particular emphasis on multifamily and single-family tax-exempt private activity bonds, military housing privatization, and Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC).

Jere serves as bond counsel in transactions involving mortgage revenue bonds, multifamily residential rental bonds, exempt facility bonds, and traditional municipal general obligation and revenue bonds, including variable-rate, and various types of credit-enhanced financings. He also has extensive experience with derivative products, such as multi-mode bond indentures, Dutch auction securities, and securitization of both tax-exempt and taxable bonds, where bonds are deposited into a trust and derivative products are issued in the form of principal and interest strips. Jere has participated in financing structures that involve variable-rate bonds and interest-rate swaps.

For more than 25 years, Jere has served as investor counsel in hundreds of LIHTC financings across the country. His experience encompasses a broad range of transaction structures, including plans of finance that combine low-income, energy, solar and historic tax credits, HUD mixed finance and RAD, GSE-backed loans, grants, and tax-exempt bonds. His clients in these sophisticated transactions have included major tax credit syndicators, banks, developers, and housing agencies and authorities, and he currently serves as counsel to two major syndicators of LIHTC transactions.

A nationally recognized leader in military housing privatization initiatives, Jere has been involved in nearly $5B of these types of transactions over the past 20 years. These intricate financings often require complex navigation of real estate, historic preservation, and environmental considerations as well as negotiating with the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force and ensuring securities law compliance for public and private bond offerings while also addressing federal, state, and local tax issues.

Credentials

Education

  • Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 1980, Research Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
  • Johns Hopkins University, B.A., 1977
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