John H Burton Jr

Practice Areas

Public Finance

Career

John Burton manages public finance and derivatives transactions for national and regional clients. He is a Shareholder in Maynard Nexsen's Public Finance Practice Group. In his more than 30 years of practice, he has served all of the primary roles in bond financing, including underwriter's counsel, bond counsel, counsel to the credit enhancer, and counsel to the issuer.

John's experience includes a wide variety of public finance transactions for governmental and private clients. He focuses his practice on healthcare and education finance, with a particular emphasis on underwriter representation. He also has extensive experience drafting and negotiating interest rate swaps and other derivative products for swap market makers as well as public and private clients.

Professional Memberships

• National Association of Bond Lawyers

• American College of Bond Counsel, Fellow

• Birmingham Bar Association

• Alabama State Bar

• Kiwanis Club of Birmingham, Board of Directors

• Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation, Past Treasurer and Member, Board of Directors

• Birmingham-Southern College National Alumni Association, Past President

• Kirkwood by the River, Past Member, Board of Directors

Experience

• Underwriter's counsel: Numerous 501(c)(3) and governmental healthcare financings nationwide

• Bond counsel: Public and private higher education financings

• Bond counsel: Healthcare authorities in the financing and refinancing of publicly and privately offered debt

• Bond counsel: Cooperative district financing for a county school system

• Bond counsel: City, county, and school board financings

• Derivatives counsel: Counsel to an investment bank nationwide in connection with swap transactions with numerous nonprofit and governmental healthcare providers and higher education institutions

• Tax counsel: Representation of governmental clients in connection with IRS audits of bond issues

• Trustee's counsel: Trustee's counsel in connection with new issues and distressed credits