Kimberly D. Magrini serves as counsel to investment banking firms, investors, developers, municipalities, issuers, and trustees in all types of public finance and municipal securities transactions. Her experience also includes representing a variety of 501(c)(3) organizations, including hospitals and other health care organizations, colleges and universities, and museums.
Kim co-leads the firm's Buyside Representations Team and represents prospective purchasers and bondholders in primary offering transactions and ongoing matters covering a wide range of transactions, including distressed financings, high-yield offerings, bioenergy and recycling facilities, economic development projects, secondary market transactions, and municipal bankruptcies and workouts.
Services
- Finance
- Public Finance
- Banking and Financial Services
- New York Public Finance
- Municipal Securities Regulation and Enforcement
- Housing
- Housing Bonds
- Infrastructure
- Municipal Recovery
- Health Care
- Energy
- Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights, and Restructuring
- Education
- Project Finance
- Bioenergy and Biomanufacturing
- Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
- Housing Finance
- Agribusiness
- Distressed Assets and Opportunities
- Buyside Representations
Professional Highlights
Pro Bono Experience
Kim represented players on the Women's National Ice Hockey Team as they pursued gender equality with USA Hockey. She also serves as a child advocate through the Support Center for Child Advocates and has also represented clients through the Homeless Advocacy Project.
Professional Activities
National Association of Bond Lawyers
Pennsylvania Association of Bond Lawyers
Ballard Spahr Pro Bono Committee
Delaware Valley Environmental Inn of Court, student member (2009-2010)
Kim represented the USA Women's rugby National Team as a player from 2006 to 2011, co-captaining the squad competing in the Women's Rugby World Cup in 2010. She served as an International Athlete representative to USA Rugby Congress and a member of the Athlete's Advisory Council to USA Rugby and the U.S. Olympic Committee for the sport of Rugby. Kim also served as Chairperson, and in other board capacities, for Keystone Griffins Rugby Club, a Philadelphia-area women's rugby club, from 2007 to 2014.
Recognition & Accomplishments
The Best Lawyers in America, Public Finance Law (New York), 2025
The Legal 500, Finance - Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy) - Municipal, 2021-2023
Chambers USA, "Up and Coming," Public Finance (Pennsylvania), 2024
Named one of The Legal Intelligencer's 2018 Lawyers on the Fast Track
Member, First Judicial District of Pennsylvania Pro Bono Roll of Honor 2012-2019
Speaking Engagements
Panel Leader, "Update on the Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA)," NABL Institute 2024, April 4, 2024
Panelist, "Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA)," 2023 SEC Municipal Securities Disclosure Conference, May 10, 2023
Speaker, "Site Development 101 – How to Increase Inventory of Shovel and Market Ready Sites," New York State Economic Development Council Economic Development Conference, March 2, 2023
Credentials
Education
Drexel University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2010)
Drexel University (M.S.E.S. 2006)
Pennsylvania State University (Schreyer Honors College) (B.S. 2004)
Admissions
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New York
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey