Shaney B. Lokken

Shaney represents governmental issuers, banks, 501(c)(3) entities, and conduit borrowers as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, and underwriter’s counsel in a variety of tax-exempt financings for affordable housing, higher education, and economic development projects.

Shaney brings over 20 years of law firm and in-house financial services industry experience to the firm’s Chambers-ranked public finance practice. She has extensive experience with a broad range of financing structures used in public finance transactions, including commercial paper, tax allocation districts, letters of credit, revolving lines of credit, forward purchase agreements, lease purchase bonds, FNMA-backed loans, and master indentures.

Prior to joining the firm, Shaney served as a Senior Vice President of swaps compliance at SunTrust Bank (now Truist Bank) and Assistant General Counsel at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta. Her in-house experience included negotiating secured loan facilities, repurchase agreements, and ISDA master agreements and schedules, as well as SEC disclosure filings.

• Served as bank counsel in a revolving line of credit facility to a large research university in Massachusetts.
• Represented nationally recognized R1 research university in Georgia as bond counsel in tax exempt financing for residential facilities.
• Represents large municipal airport in financing a new international terminal with GARBs and PFC bonds, in addition to assisting in the establishment of a commercial paper program, a short-term notes program, and negotiation of bank credit facilities.
• Represented a municipal development authority in Georgia as bond counsel in connection with the development of a 1.4 million square foot fulfillment center for a top US-based retailer.
• Represented a municipal development authority in Georgia as bond counsel in connection with the financing for the acquisition and development of an education, retail, and dining complex at a nationally renowned public R1 research university.
• Represent housing authorities in the issuance of tax-exempt bonds for qualified residential rental projects (senior and multi-family facilities) throughout the greater metropolitan Atlanta area.
• Represented several counties as bond counsel and disclosure counsel in the issuance of water and sewerage revenue bonds, including establishing a master trust indenture and negotiating a revolving credit facility backed by subordinate bonds issued under the master trust indenture.
• Represented an urban redevelopment agency as bond counsel in the private placement of its revenue bonds and the execution of an intergovernmental agreement with the city, all for the purpose of acquiring land for recreational facilities and future redevelopment.
• Served as underwriter’s counsel in the issuance of revenue bonds by a large private university.
• Represented counties and school districts in calling elections for a special purpose local option sales tax and in issuing the related general obligation bonds.

• Named to the Georgia Legal Elite, Georgia Trend magazine, 2024

• President, (previously Vice President, 2020-2024), Women in Public Finance, Georgia Chapter
• Board Member, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta
• Member, Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• Member, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association

• Board Member, International Academy of Smyrna
• Member, Policy and Governance Committee, Women’s Affordable Housing Network, Atlanta Chapter