Caroline LaFleur joined King & Spalding in 1998 and is a counsel with the Finance Practice Group, concentrating particularly on municipal finance transactions. Ms. LaFleur has been involved in many corporate and municipal finance transactions as borrower’s counsel, bond counsel, credit enhancer’s counsel and underwriter’s counsel.
Ms. LaFleur routinely serves as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, credit enhancer's counsel and borrower's counsel on complex public finance transactions and represents clients throughout the country that access the municipal market to finance healthcare, educational, solid waste and other qualifying facilities. Ms. LaFleur has extensive experience in the financing by utility companies of pollution control and sewage and solid waste disposal facilities, and the financing by governmental and nonprofit corporations of healthcare and educational facilities. She has worked on a wide variety of corporate transactions and financings for various non-profit entities, and among her clients are numerous non-profit organizations such as healthcare providers, secondary schools, colleges and universities, and charitable service providers. A portion of Ms. LaFleur’s practice is focused on the representation of financial institutions that provide credit and liquidity facilities that support tax-exempt obligations.
Ms. LaFleur is a member of the American Bar Association, the National Association of Bond Lawyers and the Local Government Section of the State Bar of Georgia.
Originally from Athens, Georgia, Ms. LaFleur graduated from the University of Virginia, cum laude, in 1995 with a B.A. degree in History and received her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1998. While in law school, Ms. LaFleur was on the Editorial Board of the Georgia Law Review.
