Funding growth through tax credits.
The comprehensive tax, financing, banking and real estate knowledge of our Tax Credits team provides clients with customized and effective representation that keeps deals moving forward. Husch Blackwell advises banks, investors, community development entities (CDEs), municipalities, and developers nationally on utilizing available federal and state tax credits along with related incentives that help fund iconic and impactful projects. Our Tax Credits attorneys analyze and recommend transaction structures, prepare all necessary transaction documents, issue tax opinions, collaborate with accountants to ensure proper tax treatment, advise on compliance, and assist with tax credit syndications.
Our attorneys routinely represent clients in complex transactions involving multiple tax credits and other incentives, such as new markets tax credits (NMTC), property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing, low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC), tax increment financing (TIF), community improvement districts (CID), opportunity zones, historic tax credits (HTC), and renewable energy tax credits. We closely monitor emerging opportunities, as well as changes in state and federal laws and regulations, in order to address each client’s optimal tax strategy, maximizing tax benefits and investment returns.
Our experience with tax credits and related incentives includes:
NMTC
From initial structuring through negotiation and long-term planning, Husch Blackwell guides and manages all facets of NMTC transactions. Our multidisciplinary team assists clients in securing tax credit allocations, forming community development entities, obtaining investments from tax credit investors, and documenting and closing loans and other investments in qualifying projects. Our national team also manages post-closing and future tax credit compliance requirements.
HTC
Our team of tax credit attorneys leverages extensive industry knowledge and relationships to lead our clients through state and federal HTC transactions. We provide counsel on all aspects of HTC transactions, including overall structuring and tax considerations, real estate acquisition and development, and financing. We also help our clients combine HTCs with a variety of other federal, state and local incentives to maximize the impact of these often complex rehabilitation projects.
PACE Financing
Our PACE Financing team represents PACE boards, PACE administrators, PACE capital providers and property owners, enabling our team to help connect clients to the increasing array of federal, state and local incentives, funding iconic and noteworthy projects from coast to coast.
Opportunity Zones
Husch Blackwell provides clients coordinated direction on the federal Opportunity Zones program. Drawing on the Husch Blackwell law firm's role as one of the nation’s leading experts on tax-advantaged transactions, our Opportunity Zones attorneys leverage their knowledge of tax, finance, real estate, securities, and corporate law to advise clients such as investors, fund managers, and recipients of capital from Qualified Opportunity Funds.
LIHTC
Our multidisciplinary legal team has worked on scores of market housing, affordable and low-income housing, and mixed-use properties. We leverage our industry knowledge and relationships to help lenders and borrowers looking to build, buy, sell, or invest in affordable housing or commercial properties minimize up-front capital expenditures by utilizing federal, state, and local development incentives and financing opportunities. Whether a lender or developer, Husch Blackwell housing clients get deals closed.