Associate

Houston

P 713.221.3318
F 800.404.3970
E amanda.edwards@bgllp.com

Assistant

Tammy Thomas
713.223.2300 x2465

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Amanda focuses her practice on tax-exempt finance, urban development, and tax-exempt organization issues. In her tax-exempt finance practice, Amanda advises clients on state law and federal tax issues in tax-exempt bond transactions that involve non-profit borrowers, industrial borrowers, hospital borrowers, municipalities, colleges and universities.  In these tax-exempt financings, Amanda serves as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, borrower’s counsel and disclosure counsel.  In her urban development practice, Amanda provides general counsel advice to special governmental districts, including tax increment reinvestment zones, local government corporations and municipal management districts.  Finally, Amanda provides legal counsel to non-profit organizations regarding obtaining and maintaining tax exempt status and related issues.

Amanda served as a judicial law clerk to The Honorable Ivan L. R. Lemelle of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

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Education

J.D., Harvard Law School, 2007
B.A., Emory University, 2004

Bar Admissions

Texas

Affiliations

Houston Bar Association
Texas Young Lawyers Association
Houston Young Lawyers Association
National Association of Bond Lawyers
Project Row Houses, Board of Directors
Crisis Intervention of Houston, Board of Directors

Noteworthy

Judicial Law Clerk, The Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Assistant Congress Issue Editor, Harvard Journal on Legislation
The Pro Bono College of the State Bar of Texas, 2011