Holly H. Heer represents developers, investors and financial institutions in partnership syndication and related financing transactions with a particular emphasis on transactions involving the low-income housing tax credit, historic tax credit and new markets tax credit. She also represents clients in general real estate, general corporate and logistics and distribution matters.

Ms. Heer was named a Rising Star in the 2007 edition of Ohio Super Lawyers, a distinction that recognizes the top 2.5 percent of Ohio lawyers under the age of 40 or those in practice for 10 years or less.

Ms. Heer is a member of the Columbus Bar Association’s Real Property Section, the Ohio State Bar Association and the Forum on Affordable Housing & Community Development Law of the American Bar Association.

Representative Experience

• Assisting a developer to acquire the largest scattered site HUD-insured housing portfolio in the country, including the purchase of management company stock, the contributions of multiple different partnerships to a new owner and the refinancing of previously existing HUD-insured debt through the Mark-to-Market Program.
• Representing a lender and equity provider in a new markets tax credit leveraged loan and lender in a conventional new markets tax credit construction/mini-perm loan for an approximately 1 million-square-foot inner city shopping center.
• Representing various investors in low-income housing tax credit projects making use of HOPE VI and other federal assistance programs available to public housing authorities.
• Representing developers and investors in conventional and bond-financed low-income housing tax credit projects throughout the continental US and Alaska.
• Assisting various investors and developers in restructurings and workouts of troubled low-income housing tax credits projects including recapture mitigation.