Summary

Jamie is an associate in the firm’s finance practice, where she represents national and local lenders in complex commercial financings. Jamie partners with clients to learn their businesses and uses that knowledge to efficiently and effectively meet her client’s objectives.

She focuses her practice on real estate finance, including multi-family housing projects, construction loans, ground lease financing, hotel projects, health care facilities, and agricultural lending. She negotiates and documents secured and unsecured lending transactions, for both single-bank and syndicated credit facilities.

Before joining Taft, Jamie was an associate at two national firms, where she drafted lender and borrower documentation, reviewed and analyzed due diligence materials and various corporate and lending structures.

Jamie earned her J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law and her B.S. in business administration from Metropolitan State University. Before obtaining her J.D. in 2015, Jamie was a finance paralegal.

Awards

  • Taft Pro Bono Honor Roll Award

    (2023)

  • Honoree, Best Lawyers® Ones to Watch” (2022 – 2024)

  • Honoree, Minnesota Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Securities & Corporate Finance

    (2022)

  • Honoree, North Star Lawyer, Minnesota State Bar Association (2022)

All Service Areas

Education

  • William Mitchell College of Law (2015)

    Dean’s List
    William Mitchell Law Review

  • Metropolitan State University (2011)

Admissions

  • State - Minnesota
  • State - Arizona
  • Federal - District of Minnesota

Notable Matters

Represented lender in a $19,000,000 hotel construction project located in an Opportunity Zone.

Represented lender in a $41,000,000 refinancing of an apartment complex.

Represented lender in a $72,000,000 ground lease financing of hotel.

Represented lender in the construction of a $13,000,000 assisted living facility.

Represented lender in the construction of a $8,000,000 solar project.

Represented a syndicated lender in a $267,000,000 financing of various hotels located in seven states.

Represented a participant lender in a $87,000,000 financing to a hospitality borrower.

Represented a private lender in the preparation of their form loan documents.

Community Involvement

Arizona Animal Welfare League & SPCA

Former Board Member and Executive Committee Member