Amanda Butler
Attorney Profile
Top Rated Business & Corporate Attorney in New Orleans, LA
New Orleans, LA 70130
- Business/Corporate (30%),
- Securities & Corporate Finance (30%),
- Real Estate: Business (10%),
- Government Finance (10%),
- Employment & Labor: Employer (10%),
- Business Litigation (10%)
Attorney Amanda Butler is the founding partner of the Business Law Group in New Orleans, Louisiana. A highly rated lawyer with more than 11 years of legal experience, Ms. Butler represents a diverse range of commercial, corporate, executive and professional clients throughout the greater New Orleans metro region and surrounding areas who have transactional or litigation needs involving any of the following practice areas:
· Contract negotiations and drafting as well as contract disputes and litigation
· Corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions
· Small business and start-up formation and planning
· Employment law
· Hospitality law
· Commercial and high-end residential real estate transactions and closings, including financing and title insurance
· Commercial leasing
· Franchising and corporate growth strategies
· Maritime finance
· Commercial lending and finance
· Municipal bonds
· Commercial tax issues
Known for her exceptional business acumen, Ms. Butler has achieved notable success guiding her clients throughout all stages of their business's life cycle to help ensure the best odds of their success and to maintain their competitiveness in today's dynamic market. Many of her clients are C-suite executives and other high-earning professionals who seek to protect their rights and interests during all types of transactions and business-related disputes.
More than simply an attorney, Ms. Butler strives to be an invaluable partner with those she serves to fully understand their needs. This allows her to provide the most effective strategies possible to best help her clients achieve their goals. Recognized for her success, she has earned numerous accolades from her peers as well as many positive reviews and referrals from her satisfied clients.
A 2000 graduate of Louisiana State University, Ms. Butler attended Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where she obtained her Juris Doctor in 2007. She received her license to practice from the Louisiana State Bar Association the following year, and she maintains active involvement with the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the American Bar Association and the Government Finance Officers Association.
Business/Corporate (30%): Business Formation and Planning, Limited Liability Companies, Contracts, Business Organizations
Securities & Corporate Finance (30%): Securities Law
Real Estate (10%): Condominiums & Cooperatives, Landlord/Tenant
Government Finance (10%): State & Municipal Bonds, Tax Increment Financing (TIF)
Employment & Labor (10%): Employment Law - Employee, Whistleblower, Sexual Harassment, Labor Law
Business Litigation (10%): Non-Compete Agreements
Business Formation and Planning, Limited Liability Companies, Contracts, Business Organizations, Securities Law, Condominiums & Cooperatives, Landlord/Tenant, State & Municipal Bonds, Tax Increment Financing (TIF), Employment Law - Employee, Whistleblower, Sexual Harassment, Labor Law, Non-Compete Agreements
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Rising Stars: 2017 - 2018
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About Amanda Butler
Admitted: 2008, Louisiana
Professional Webpage: https://www.lawgroup.biz/team
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:
- Represented an investment advisor in an employment matter in a FINRA arbitration dispute.
- The Ruby Slipper Cafe, LLC
- 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
Educational Background:
- Louisiana State University, Baron Rouge, Louisiana. BA in Journalism and Speech Communications, 2000
Industry Groups
- Commercial Banking
- Government
- Real Estate Development
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Last Updated: 6/13/2019