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