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St. Louis, Missouri
Jennifer A. Simmons
Jennifer is a multi-faceted and versatile attorney with deep and broad expertise in general corporate, real estate, and finance matters.
Jennifer has over 20 years of experience in real estate and corporate law. Primarily representing lenders, investors, community development entities, developers, and nonprofits in transactions involving various forms of debt, equity and public financing, including federal and state new markets tax credits, historic tax credits, and opportunity zones. Jennifer has worked extensively on structuring complex transactions involving multiple incentives.
Within the community development space, Jennifer has extensive experience advising clients during all stages of the tax credit finance lifecycle, from the initial planning and tax structuring, to negotiating and documenting the transaction, to providing post-closing compliance, restructuring and workout advice. Her projects include hospitals, medical offices, manufacturing and production facilities, residential developments, charter schools, homeless shelters, college and university facilities, mixed-use developments, office buildings, grocery stores, shopping centers, museums, as well as various other commercial, industrial, and community-based projects.
In addition to public finance, Jennifer also regularly represents institutional lenders with construction, term, and revolving loans; sellers and buyers in the sale and acquisition of real estate; and investors in the acquisition of interests in real estate holding companies.
Outside of the office, Jennifer is an active horse enthusiast - riding, breeding, and showing American Saddlebred Horses.
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University of Missouri School of Law (Juris Doctor, 2005, Order of the Coif)
University of Missouri (Bachelor of Science in Finance and Banking, 2002, Summa Cum Laude)
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Missouri, 2005
Illinois, 2006
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• Member, Missouri Bar Association
Member, Illinois Bar Association
Regional Advisory Board Member, Central Bank
Member, Novogradac New Markets Tax Credit Working Group
Board Member and Executive Board Member, The Glennon Guild (auxiliary dedicated to supporting SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital)
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Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law (2024-2025)
Chambers USA, Real Estate Law (2023)
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