Practice Areas
Cristy Edwards practices in the area of public finance and tax-exempt finance, with a primary focus on transactions involving hospitals and other healthcare facilities, colleges and universities, private schools, nonprofit organizations, industrial development, waste disposal facilities, airports and state agencies. She serves as bond counsel, borrower’s counsel, disclosure counsel, trustee’s counsel and underwriters counsel in such financings. Cristy also represents electric cooperatives in finance transactions. Cristy is experienced as trustee’s counsel in default and workout situations. Cristy’s experience includes a wide variety of financings, including fixed rate and a full range of multi-modal rate structures, taxable and tax-exempt bonds, public offerings, private placements and direct purchase arrangements. Cristy also has significant experience in transactions involving interest rate swaps.
Professional Memberships
National Association of Bond Lawyers; Houston Bar Association; Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow; United Way Alexis De Tocqueville Society, Member; American College of Bond Counsel, Fellow
Personal
JD, Louisiana State University Law Center, 1999; BA, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992