Butler Snow LLP

Public Finance, Tax Incentives & Credit Markets - Practice Group Leader

Thad Varner serves as Practice Group Leader for the Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets Group. He has experience in all areas of public finance, including: general obligation bonds, single family mortgage revenue bonds, special assessment bonds, municipal bond issuances, private conduit financings and lease obligations bonds. He has served as Bond Counsel since 2005 for the Mississippi Home Corporation single family mortgage revenue bond program representing issuances over $1.5 billion of Single Family Mortgage Revenue Bonds. He also served as Bond Counsel for $200,000,000 of gaming tax revenue bonds issued by the State of Mississippi, representing the nation’s only issuance of debt secured solely by gaming tax revenues. Thad is also the creator of the low-interest loan program that resulted in over $79,000,000 in loans made through the Mississippi Development Bank for cities, counties and other public bodies in Mississippi requiring immediate financial assistance in the weeks following landfall of Hurricane Katrina.

Thad is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America®, Chambers USA and Mid-South Super Lawyers®.

He obtained his J.D. from the University of Mississippi and LL.M. in taxation from Emory University. He is admitted to The Mississippi Bar.