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COLONIAL PLAZA, SUITE 1125
2101 6TH AVENUE NORTH
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35203
ALABAMA
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Caitlyn Burchfield
Work Department
Public Finance, Tax Incentives & Credit Markets
Career
Caitlyn Burchfield is an attorney with Butler Snow LLP, which she joined in September 2014. She is a summa cum laude graduate of the Honors program at the University of Alabama, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Cardinal Key, and the Chi Omega fraternity, and is a 2014 graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law, where she was Managing Editor of the Law & Psychology Review. She works in the Public Finance Group of Butler Snow. Caitlyn is admitted to the State Bars of Alabama and Mississippi, the U.S. District Courts for all Districts of Alabama and Mississippi, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Caitlyn has experience with various types of tax-exempt and taxable debt, including direct bank placements and public market offerings, general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, bond anticipation notes, tax anticipation warrants, USDA financings, and refundings of prior issuances. Caitlyn’s representative projects include developments in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire, Texas, Massachusetts, and California. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the National Association of Bond Lawyers.
Caitlyn’s work has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® as “One to Watch” in both Public Finance and Real Estate law for four consecutive years (2021-2024). In Fall 2021, she was recognized in the Birmingham Business Journal’s 2021 NextGen: Law, which honors up-and-coming individuals in the legal world who are under the age of 40. She is active in a wide range of community organizations, most recently having served as the Executive Vice President of the Rotaract Club of Birmingham from 2020-2021.
Education
She obtained her J.D. from the University of Alabama and is admitted to the State Bars of Alabama and Mississippi, the U.S. District Courts for all Districts of Alabama and Mississippi, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Project finance
Butler Snow LLP‘s deep bench of public finance advisors act on state and county soft and hard infrastructure builds. The group are a frequent port of call for many urban development authorities, public institutions, most notably hospital, schools and art centers, and energy developers for bond, borrower and corporate counsel. Added to this, the firm’s tax credits group is regular feature amongst practice matters, supporting clients on federal New Markets Tax Credits and state New Markets Tax Credits – amongst other tax issues. Thad Varner, Blake Sharpton, and Gregg Gumbert spearhead the team from Ridgeland, Macon, and Memphis respectively. In recent highlights, Thad has been active on port redevelopments, Blake on housing and medical builds, and Gregg on energy, manufacturing and logistics facilities. Also based in Ridgeland, Michael Russ and has been routinely instructed as bond counsel to the Mississippi Business Finance Corporation, whereas John England and Anna Watson are well-reputed for their tax advice. Birmingham’s Caitlyn Burchfield and Ridgeland’s Jetson Hollingsworth are also recommended. Michael Bradshaw left the firm in March 2024.