Ann D. Fillingham serves as Dykema’s Director of Regulated Industries. Her principal areas of practice include public and structured finance, infrastructure finance, and transactional work for financial institutions. In the public finance arena, Ms. Fillingham has served as bond counsel and underwriter's counsel to numerous state and local issuers. She has built a reputation for innovative and creative lawyering, serving as an integral part of many of her client's most important financial restructurings. She has worked extensively with the State of Michigan and its various departments and authorities with respect to both taxable and tax-exempt issues. In addition, she has served as bond counsel or underwriter's counsel on many county, municipal, school and local authority bond issues and many conduit transactions for acute care and continuing care facilities, and economic development projects. Ms. Fillingham is the President of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL), regularly speaks at NABL conferences on matters related to public finance, is a past NABL Steering Committee member and is the past Chair of the NABL's Bond Attorneys' Workshop and its Municipal Law Committee.

In the corporate and finance arena, Ms. Fillingham also works extensively with financial institutions, structuring and documenting both taxable letter of credit enhanced debt offerings and commercial finance transactions. Her areas of practice include transactional negotiation and documentation, commercial lending and federal and state regulatory compliance work for lending institutions.

Bar Admissions

Michigan, 1989

Education
University of Michigan, J.D., cum laude Michigan State University, B.A.

• with high honors

Significant Accomplishments
Ms. Fillingham’s principal areas of practice include public and structured finance, and transactional work for corporations and financial institutions. In the public finance arena, Ms. Fillingham has served as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel to numerous state and local issuers. She has worked extensively with the State of Michigan and its various departments and authorities with respect to both taxable and tax-exempt issues. In addition, she has served as bond counsel or underwriter’s counsel on many county, municipal, school and local authority bond issues. Ms. Fillingham is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and regularly speaks at NABL conferences on matters related to public finance.

In the corporate and finance arena, Ms. Fillingham also works extensively with financial institutions, structuring and documenting both taxable letter of credit enhanced debt offering and documenting commercial finance transactions. Her expertise includes transactional negotiation and documentation, commercial lending and federal and state regulatory compliance work for lending institutions.



Professional Associations

• The National Association of Bond Lawyers
• State Bar of Michigan
• Ingham County Bar Association

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