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Jessica Lynn MacAllister
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Overview

Jessica MacAllister is an attorney in Holland & Knight's Atlanta office. Ms. MacAllister represents institutional lenders, commercial banks and specialty finance companies in secured lending transactions, focusing on commercial real estate security in multistate transactions and related documentation and negotiations in all asset classes. She has specific knowledge and experience in healthcare finance transactions and healthcare real estate.

Ms. MacAllister regularly advises national banks and other financial institutions in the participation and syndication of loans and on matters related to the transition of LIBOR. 

In addition to her legal practice, Ms. MacAllister serves as the co-chair of Holland & Knight's Women's Initiative in the Atlanta office and serves as chair of the Atlanta office’s attorney mentoring program. She also maintains an active pro bono practice through Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta.

Representative Experience

  • Advised a leading fund in a number of related transactions culminating in the acquisition of a publicly traded REIT based in Plano, Texas, an owner, operator and developer of luxury apartment communities with a significant presence in select coastal markets, in a transaction valued at approximately $4.4 billion, including the debt assumed or refinanced in connection with the transaction
  • Advised leading fund in the $28 million refinancing of a three-building office portfolio in Phoenix
  • Advised a leading developer in connection with construction financing for a 22-story mixed-use residential and retail project in Atlanta
  • Advised a leading financial institution, as administrative agent, in connection with an approximately $105 million construction loan secured by an assisted living, memory care and independent living senior housing facility to be built in Westchester County, New York
  • Represented the administrative agent and left lead bank in connection with a $675 million revolving credit facility provided to an owner, manager and operator of single-family rental homes across the United States
  • Advised a leading financial institution in connection with the third amendment and restatement of its credit facilities provided to a provider of terminaling, storage and related services to the energy industry, which provides for, among other things, a $600 million revolving credit facility
  • Represented a leading financial institution in connection with the payoff of existing $3.5 billion term loan facility and new $615 million unsecured term loan facility provided to an owner, manager and developer of office properties in the United States
  • Represented a leading timberland real estate investment trust in connection with an amendment to its credit agreement to establish a $300 million incremental term loan facility
  • Represented a leading financial institution in connection with a $215 million secured revolving credit facility provided to a California-based homebuilder
  • Represented a national lending institution in a $92 million land and $118 million cash available for distribution (CAD) loan facility secured by real estate in the U.S. and Canada

  • Represented a leading financial institution, as lender and administrative agent, in connection with a $534.9 million term loan used to finance the acquisition of 34 medical office buildings located in 14 states
  • Represented a leading financial institution, as lender and administrative agent, in connection with a loan facility of up to $354.5 million that was fully cross-collateralized and cross-defaulted by a 15-asset medical office portfolio
  • Represented a leading financial institution, as lender and administrative agent, in connection with a $285 million term loan facility used to finance the acquisition of 13 senior housing facilities in Maryland, Tennessee, New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Connecticut
  • Represented a leading financial institution, as lender and administrative agent, in connection with a $123.1 million term secured by a medical office building in Chevy Chase, Maryland
  • Represented a leading financial institution, as lender and administrative agent, in connection with a $136.2 million term loan facility used to finance the acquisition of six senior housing facilities in California, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
  • Represented a leading fund in connection with the amendment and restatement of a term loan secured by a ground leased healthcare facility and synthetically cross-defaulted with a separate healthcare portfolio
  • Represented a leading financial institution in connection with a $55 million term loan facility used to finance the acquisition of four senior housing facilities located in Delaware, Georgia and New Jersey
  • Represented a healthcare financial company in connection with the $100 million amendment and restatement of an existing term loan facility for a managed healthcare company to be used to finance 15 senior housing facilities

Credentials

Education
  • Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, J.D., cum laude
  • University of Tennessee, B.A., Political Science, with honors
Bar Admissions/Licenses
  • Georgia
Court Admissions
  • Supreme Court of Georgia
  • All Superior Courts in Georgia
Memberships
  • Stonewall Bar Association of Georgia
  • Atlanta Bar Association, Business and Finance Section, Secretary and Board of Directors, 2022-Present
  • Georgia Bar Association
  • OUT Georgia Business Alliance
  • National LGBT Bar Association
  • Loyola Law Review, Articles and Symposium Editor
  • Love Not Lost, Board of Directors, 2021-Present
Honors & Awards
  • On the Rise, Georgia Legal Awards, Daily Report, 2022
  • The Best Lawyers in America guide, Atlanta Real Estate Law Ones to Watch, 2021-2023
  • Holland & Knight Emerging Leader, Class of 2020
  • William L. Crowe Sr. Scholar, Loyola University New Orleans

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