Profile

Rebecca Joyner serves as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, borrower’s counsel and bank counsel in financings for cities, towns, counties, authorities, private schools, colleges and universities and other non-profit institutions across the state of North Carolina.

In addition to her legal experience, Ms. Joyner has extensive experience in municipal bond financings after six years as state lead for local credits with Moody’s Investors Service. In this role, she analyzed bond offerings issued by cities, counties, school districts and special districts located in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida and several states in the southwestern United States.

Experience Highlights

• Experience with fixed rate and variable rate transactions utilizing debt instruments including general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, installment purchase financings, lease financings, limited obligation bonds and certificates of participation financings
• Spearheaded effort to expand North Carolina Local Government Commission policy regarding the sale of special assessment bonds to qualified institutional buyers
• Served as bond counsel for the first unenhanced tax increment financing completed in North Carolina
• Served as bond counsel for the first bond financing for a North Carolina charter school

News

• Forty-Four Parker Poe Attorneys Named 2013 NC Super Lawyers
  January 18, 2013
• Forty-Two Parker Poe Attorneys Named as 2012 NC Super Lawyers
  January 20, 2012
• Parker Poe Names Six New Partners
  January 3, 2012
• Triangle Business Journal Names Parker Poe Attorney to 40 Under 40
  April 8, 2011
• Thirty-Seven Parker Poe Attorneys Named NC Super Lawyers for 2011
  January 25, 2011
• Law & Politics Names 36 Parker Poe Attorneys as Super Lawyers
  January 28, 2010
• House Bill 1117 Provides Certain Public Finance Reforms
  August 3, 2005
• Announcing Parker Poe's 2004 Fall Associates and Special Counsel
  November 4, 2004

Events & Speaking Engagements

• Utility Financing Alternatives and The Financing Team
  January 2011
  Institute of Government
• Making It in a Man’s World
  July 2010
  Panel Moderator, NC Women in Public Finance Event
• Utility Financing Alternatives and The Financing Team
  January 2010
  Institute of Government
• Public Finance Opportunities in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
  May 2009
  NC Women in Public Finance Regional Events
• Public Finance Opportunities in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
  February 2009
  NC Women in Public Finance Regional Events
• Utility Financing Alternatives and The Financing Team
  January 2009
  Institute of Government
• Utility Financing Alternatives and The Financing Team
  January 2008
  Institute of Government
• Tax Increment Financing: What Is It and How Does it Work?
  June 2006
  Centralina Economic Development Commission Workshop for Small Area Economic Development

Memberships

• National Association of Bond Lawyers
  Member
• Make-A-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina
  Member, Board of Directors, 2012-present
• North Carolina Women in Public Finance
  Member, Steering Committee, 2007-Present
• Achievement Academy of Durham
  Member, Board of Directors, 2007-2008; Vice-Chair, 2008-2009; Chairman, 2009-2010; Member, Advisory Council, 2010-present
• UNC-Chapel Hill APPLES Service-Learning Program
  Member, Advisory Board, 2007-2009

Cases

• School Benefits from Tax-Exempt Financing