Rankin, S. Louise

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Louise Rankin helps health care providers finance facilities through tax-exempt bonds. Since 1985 she has practiced full time as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, or borrower's counsel in health care, long-term care, and educational facility financings. She has extensive experience in multistate system bond deals for health care and long-term care providers, as well as numerous stand-alone hospitals, continuing care retirement communities, and nursing homes. She has developed structures and covenants now widely accepted in the health care financing industry. She has worked on deals for start-ups, on construction and acquisition projects, on refinancings, on FHA and other mortgage-backed deals, and has advised the parties in situations of covenant breach and workouts.

Louise serves as bond counsel to Alexian Brothers Health System, American Baptist Homes of the West, Covenant Retirement Communities, and Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System. She also has represented Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Ziegler Capital Markets, among many others, as underwriter's counsel in health care and long-term care transactions.

Louise is a member of the State Bar of California, the Illinois State Bar, the American Health Lawyers Association, the National Association of Bond Lawyers, and The Healthcare Roundtable for Chief Financial Officers. She has been a featured speaker at NABL panels concerning 501(c)(3) and hospital bonds.

Areas of Practice

• Health Care
• Finance/Health Care

Representative Cases

• Alexian Brothers Health System issued fixed rate bonds
• Alexian Brothers Health System receives variable rate bonds for hospital expansion
• American Baptist Homes issues bonds to multiple facilities
• Bronson Methodist Hospital bonds underwritten by Citigroup Global Market
• Childrens Hospital Los Angeles issues bonds to construct new campus
• Childrens Hospital Los Angeles issues tax-exempt bonds
• Citigroup Global Markets offers bonds
• Citigroup underwrites City of Minneapolis bonds
• City of Hope given tax advice
• Clare Oaks issued fixed and variable rate bonds by IFA
• Covenant Retirement Communities issued $148,620,000 revenue bonds
• Covenant Retirement Communities issued refunding bonds
• Covenant Retirement Communities issued tax-exempt bonds
• Covenant Retirement Communities subsidiary issued bonds in connection with Windsor Park Manor
• Goldman Sachs underwrites $115,000,000 bonds for Adventist Health System
• Goldman Sachs underwrites Adventist West bonds
• Goldman Sachs underwrites bonds for Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital
• Goldman Sachs underwrites Huntington Memorial bonds
• Goldman Sachs underwrites Presbyterian Healthcare tax-exempt bonds
• Goldman Sachs underwrites tax-exempt refunding bonds for Rady Children's Hospital
• J.P. Morgan Securities underwrites bonds for building construction on Cleveland Clinic campus
• Sisters of Charity issued tax exempt bonds by Kansas and Montana Finance Authorities
• Sisters of Charity variable rate bonds issued
• Ziegler Capital Markets underwrites $59,270,000 bonds for retirement community project
• Ziegler Capital Markets underwrites $62,285,000 tax exempt bonds for Southern California Presbyterian Homes
• Ziegler Capital Markets underwrites $77,805,000 tax exempt bonds for Southern California Presbyterian Homes
• Ziegler Capital Markets underwrites Front Porch bonds
• Ziegler Capital Markets underwrites Terwilliger Plaza project
• Ziegler Capital Markets underwrites variable rate bonds for Skyline at First Hill project

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Disability, Elder Law, Food & Drug Administration, Health & Health Care Law, Hospital Law, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, Nursing Home, Social Security -- Disability

Bar Admissions

• California
• Illinois
• Michigan

Education

• Minnesota State Univ, Mankato
• Vanderbilt University

Published Works

• Proposed Regulations Modify Arbitrage Regulations, 2007

Address

555 California Street
26th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104

Phones

1.415.875.5777 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.415.875.5700 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

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