Jean Z. Matzeder

Jean Matzeder is co-head of Hardwick’s municipal finance practice. She has been actively involved in the public finance practice since 1980. Her municipal finance experience includes functioning as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, disclosure counsel, or issuer’s counsel on financings exceeding $20 billion. Her work includes working on general obligation bonds, water and sewer revenue bonds, airport bonds, school district and university bonds, housing bonds, parking facilities, parks, economic development projects and many other types of public infrastructure improvements.

Jean has served as counsel on numerous innovative transactions, including as co-bond counsel for the City of Kansas City on the construction of the $2 billion new airport facility which involved the development of an innovative structure allowing new bonds to be issued by a conduit issuer on parity with outstanding airport obligations. She has also been involved in major airport financings in St. Louis, Dallas-Fort Worth and New York City.

Her experience also includes serving as counsel to governmental agencies which support and facilitate development by utilizing incentives such as tax abatement, tax increment financing, and other financing tools. She has also served as co-bond counsel for statewide issuers of bonds for multi-family and single-family housing projects over the past 30 years.

Jean has been involved with high-level financing programs across multiple states, including serving as counsel during the organization and enabling of a Missouri state financing program still in use today.