Scott Kortmeyer
Scott Kortmeyer
Biography
Scott M. Kortmeyer focuses his health care finance practice on tax-exempt and taxable financings for 501(c)(3) health care entities and governmental health care entities. He has served nationally as bond counsel, borrower's counsel, credit enhancer's counsel and underwriters' counsel for revenue financings involving health care systems, academic medical centers, retirement centers and nursing facilities.
Mr. Kortmeyer has extensive experience advising his health care clients in the structuring and completion of financings for a variety of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and asset securitizations. He has also worked with governmental health care and 501(c)(3) heath care clients in connection with the filing, restructuring, sale and/or purchase of assets through Chapter IX and Chapter XI bankruptcies.
In addition, Mr. Kortmeyer has experience drafting and negotiating all types of debt instruments and accompanying documentation, including disclosure documents, trust indentures, swap agreements and other credit and related security agreements. His diverse transactional background includes working in fixed-rate, variable rate and multimodal financings.
Professional experience
Representative experience
Representative experience
- Numerous tax-exempt and taxable financings for non-profit health care facilities, including various short-term interest rate products, refinancings resulting from mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring of swap portfolios
- Representation of underwriters in numerous tax-exempt and taxable financings for non-profit and for-profit senior living facilities
- Representation of a municipality in negotiating an economic development package that facilitated one of the country's largest furniture retailers to locate its regional headquarters, warehouse and distribution center in the municipality and anchor a $2 billion development
Rankings and recognitions
Rankings and recognitions
- Chambers USA, California, Banking and Finance: Public Finance, Chambers and Partners, 2024
- Texas Rising Star, healthcare, Thomson Reuters, 2010 - 2012
- The Best Lawyers in America, Best Lawyers, 2015 - 2021
- The Best Lawyers in America, Public Finance Law, Best Lawyers, 2015 - 2025
- American College of Bond Counsel, Fellow class of 2021
Education
Education
JD, cum laude, Arizona State University College of Law, 2001
BS, magna cum laude, Pre-Med Biology, Arizona State University, 1997
Scott was admitted to practice law in Arizona in 2001 and in Texas in 2007.
Admissions
Admissions
- Arizona State Bar
- California State Bar
- Tennessee State Bar
- Texas State Bar
Publications
Publications
- Co Author, "Implications of Dodd-Frank for Non-Profit Directors, Trustees and Officers", Fulbright Briefing, January 27, 2011
- "The Credit Crisis and the Cost of Capital for Nonprofit and Governmental Healthcare Providers", Business Law & Governance, December 2008
Speaking engagements
Speaking engagements
- "Health Care Facilities – Non-Tax Matters," 42nd Bond Attorneys' Workshop, Chicago, Illinois, 2017
- "Health Care Facilities – Non-Tax Matters," 41st Bond Attorneys' Workshop, Chicago, Illinois, 2016
- "Health Care Facilities – Non-Tax Matters," 35th Bond Attorneys' Workshop, San Antonio, Texas, 2010
- "Health Care Facilities – Non-Tax Matters," 34th Bond Attorneys' Workshop, Phoenix, Arizona, 2009
Memberships and activities
Memberships and activities
- National Association of Bond Lawyers
- State Bar of Texas
- State Bar of Arizona
- Dallas Bar Association
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