Kimberly M. Reisler

Kim has a significant background with utility mortgages, in both the issuance of bonds and the ongoing management of activity under, and modernization of, mortgages. In addition to her work on secured and unsecured debt issuances in both registered offerings and private placements, Kim counsels clients in equity transactions and arrangements such as at-the-market programs, equity forwards, and other issuances of both common and preferred equity. Her experience includes more complex financing structures such as pollution control and other tax-exempt bonds and nuclear fuel–secured notes.

• Served as counsel to underwriters of $1.3 billion sale/leaseback debt financing.
• Served as underwriters' counsel to US electric utilities in more than $8 billion of capital market equity and debt sales.
• Served as counsel to the underwriters for an electric utility holding company's sale of $4 billion of senior notes.
• Represented utility clients in credit financings of more than $20 billion.
• Represented electric utilities in corporate restructuring transactions to separate along jurisdictional lines, change organizational form, and redomesticate.
• Represented various electric utilities in sales of more than $20 billion of secured and unsecured debt, preferred equity instruments, tax-exempt bonds, and secured lease obligation bonds.