Shaney Lokken Joins Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Atlanta office

In a move to further expand its public finance practice in Atlanta, the law firm of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced that Shaney Lokken has joined the firm as counsel.

Lokken is a public finance attorney with 20 years of experience representing issuers, borrowers, underwriters and purchasers.

She joins the firm from Murray Barnes & Finister LLP and was previously was counsel at Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP.

Earlier in her career, she was an associate in the Atlanta office of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP (now Eversheds Sutherland LLP), where she worked on municipal finance and corporate matters.

In October, Douglass Selby was named managing partner of the Atlanta office and co-heads the firm’s public finance group with Thomas Sage. In November, Laura Wagner was promoted to counsel in Atlanta.

“Shaney brings to the firm considerable skill and a unique mix of public finance experience, having represented clients in private practice with a diverse set of objectives and serving as an in-house attorney advising financial institutions on an array of regulatory compliance matters,” Selby said in a statement Tuesday.

Lokken’s experience over the past two decades includes financings for state and local governments and nonprofit issuers. She has represented governmental issuers, investment banks and conduit borrowers as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter’s counsel in a variety of tax-exempt financings for healthcare, higher education, assisted living facility and economic development projects.

She has also represented nonprofit borrowers and financial institutions in direct purchase, credit enhancement and direct borrowing transactions.

Additionally, she spent several years as an in-house attorney in the banking industry.

From 2015 to 2017, she worked for SunTrust Bank (now Truist Financial), where she was named senior vice president and security-based swap dealer chief compliance officer. From 2006 to 2014, Lokken was assistant vice president and assistant general counsel for the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta.

Lokken earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and her law degree from the University of Southern California Law School.

Hunton Andrews Kurth’s public finance practice tackles legal issues that affect both governmental financing and tax-exempt financing for nonprofit corporations. The firm has served as bond counsel, special disclosure counsel and counsel to issuers, underwriters, trustees, credit enhancers and institutional investors in transactions throughout the United States.