James C. Burr

Jim Burr is a partner in Chapman and Cutler’s National Public Finance Department. Jim serves as the Office Leader of the firm’s Salt Lake City office.

Jim's practice focuses on energy and project financings for joint action agencies, municipal utilities and public utility districts throughout the United States. His experience includes representation of electric and gas utilities in project and system financings, asset acquisitions, wholesale power and gas supply contracts, commodity price swaps, debt restructurings, and bondholder tender offers and consent solicitations. He has developed and executed innovative financing structures for renewable energy facilities and gas and electric prepayments.

Jim’s experience also includes extensive work in the areas of municipal securities law and disclosure. He has represented national and regional underwriters in public, private and Rule 144A offerings of tax exempt and taxable debt, and assists issuers and underwriters in the preparation of new issue and continuing disclosure documents. He regularly writes and lectures on current developments in SEC and MSRB rules and regulations governing the municipal securities market and disclosure practices.

Jim maintains an active general public finance practice in the western states, and serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter’s counsel on a variety of transactions, including financings for colleges and universities, water and sewer, resource recovery, public transportation and telecommunications revenue bond offerings, certificates of participation and lease revenue financings, and general obligation bond and tax note offerings.