Amanda Butler
Attorney Profile
Top Rated Business & Corporate Attorney in New Orleans, LA
New Orleans, LA 70130
- Business/Corporate (30%),
- Real Estate: Business (30%),
- Government Finance (10%),
- Securities & Corporate Finance (10%),
- Employment & Labor: Employer (10%),
- Business Litigation (10%)
Amanda Butler is a New Orleans based attorney, managing partner and founder of the Business Law Group. Amanda's legal career is laser-focused on making the business and real estate development ideas of her clients come to life. Helping a small local business grow into a powerhouse is Amanda's forte.
After spending close to ten years learning and apprenticing at a large blue-chip firm with national corporate and banking clients, Amanda started the Business Law Group to bring that legal expertise to the local Louisiana business community. “I love an underdog. Representing small business owners or startups and watching them grow is my top priority. Any chance I have to help my small business owners get the financing they need or the space they need to succeed makes me happy.”
Navigating business law can be challenging and complex. Simple errors today can cost your business thousands of dollars in revenue or lost opportunities tomorrow. As a fellow business owner and counsel to businesses across a number of different industries, Amanda understands the challenges that small business owners face. Partnering with an attorney that understands your challenges and your vision, can help you stay one step ahead of the growth curve.
About Amanda Butler
Admitted: 2008, Louisiana
Honors/Awards:
- Award for the associate that earned the highest number of pro bono hours in the calendar year. Achieved after over 100 hours of work on probono matters for the past five years, The Dermot S. McGlinchey Commitment to Pro Bono Award, 2015
- Associate to Watch, Chambers, 2015
Special Licenses/Certifications:
- Louisiana Licensed Title Producer, 2013
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Board Member, Former President of Women in Public Finance, Louisiana Chapter, 2015
Pro bono/Community Service:
- Member, Former Vice President, Morris Jeff Community School Board, helping to transform public education in the City of New Orleans, 2014
Scholarly Lectures/Writings:
- Amanda has written the only study guide for lawyers sitting for the Louisiana state title producer examination. The Study Guide, along with an abstracting primer, has helped hundreds of lawyers break into the Louisiana title insurance industry, Member, Louisiana Land Title Institute, Title Insurance
Verdicts/Settlements:
- Settlement of Minority Shareholder claim for Buy-Out of client's shares in a family owned corporation for $1,100,000, 2017
Transactions:
- Lender's Counsel to IBERIABANK in connection with its purchase of $10,200,000 Louisiana Local Government Environmental Facilities and Community Development Authority, Revenue Refunding Bonds (Ragin' Cajun Facilities, Inc. - Baseball Stadium Project), Series 2017, 2017
- Counsel to a New Market Tax Credit Project Borrower (QALICB) and transaction advice and structuring in connection with the exit of the NMTC investor and the put of its interest to an affiliate of the Project Borrower., 2016
- Counsel to Lender of Record and Co-Underwriter's Counsel in connection with the offerring of $25,000,000 in USDA guaranteed corporate bonds issued to build a bio-succinic acid manufacturing facility in Lake Providence, Louisiana, 2011
Representative Clients:
- Human Resources and Employment Counsel to Virdia B2X, LLC, a bio-sugar refining plant, 2015
- IBERIABANK, as purchaser of private placement municipal bonds., 2015
- Hotel Indigo, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2015
- The Ruby Slipper Cafe, LLC, 2013
Industry Groups
- Commercial Banking
- Government
- Real Estate Development
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Last Updated: 1/2/2018