Bill Holby is a partner with King & Spalding's Finance Practice Group, focusing particularly on municipal finance transactions. 

Mr. Holby regularly represents governmental issuers, as well as for-profit and non-profit organizations, with their tax-exempt financing needs.  Within the State of Georgia he represents cities and counties with the full range of their financing needs, and also works actively with state and local governments in connection with the negotiation of economic development incentive proposals and related financing requirements.  Mr. Holby serves as Bond Counsel throughout the country on behalf of clients that access the municipal market to finance transportation and environmental projects, and represents numerous non-profit clients such as secondary schools, colleges and universities, and charitable service providers.  A portion of Mr. Holby's practice is focused on the representation of financial institutions that provide credit and liquidity facilities that support tax-exempt obligations.

Mr. Holby has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Bond Lawyers since 2002, and currently serves as President.  He has served as a member of the Steering Committee for the annual Bond Attorneys Workshop and is a frequent faculty member at NABL seminars, speaking on topics relating to exempt facilities financings, tax due diligence and documentation procedures, credit enhancement, and structured finance transactions.  He also speaks regularly to public officials throughout the State of Georgia on a broad range of topics through the University of Georgia’s Fanning Institute.  Mr. Holby was inducted into the American College of Bond Counsel in 2000, and is included in the 2009 edition of both The Best Lawyers in America and Georgia Super Lawyers.

An honors graduate of Vanderbilt University in 1976, Mr. Holby received his law degree from Vanderbilt School of Law in 1979, where he served on the editorial board of the Vanderbilt Law Review.