Jessica Lynn MacAllister

Partner

Practices

Industry

Financial Services

Jessica Lynn MacAllister

+1.404.817.8426

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

Holland & Knight Rising Star, Class of 2025
The Best Lawyers in America guide, Atlanta Real Estate Law Ones to Watch, 2021-2023
On the Rise, Georgia Legal Awards, Daily Report, 2022
Holland & Knight Emerging Leader, Class of 2020
William L. Crowe Sr. Scholar, Loyola University New Orleans

Publications

Intercreditor Agreements in Skilled Nursing Facilities: Collateral Allocations That May Surprise You!

The Secured Lender Magazine

November 2024

Speaking Engagements

Experience of Attorneys Who Identify as Members of the LGBTQIA+ Community

Panelist / DRI Young Lawyers Seminar / June 24, 2022

Survey of Recent Commercial Law Cases

Secured Lending CLE, Business Law Section, State Bar of Georgia / March 2022

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