Atty. Janelle M. Walker
Janelle Walker is an attorney in the Project Finance and Public Finance group, serving as counsel to a wide variety of clients, including issuers, underwriters, and borrowers on a variety of public finance transactions. My focus I serve as bond, co-bond counsel, disclosure counsel, special counsel, and underwriters’ counsel on a variety of tax-exempt and taxable municipal finance transactions, including those related to general municipal infrastructure, affordable housing and redevelopment, transportation, power generation and transmission, and water and wastewater services.
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Janelle M. Walker is a business attorney based in San Francisco, California, practicing at Nixon Peabody LLP. Admitted to practice in California, The State Bar of California. Educated at University of California Hastings College of the Law (J.D., 2015) and University of California - Irvine (B.A.). Recognitions include Best Lawyers in America — Public Finance Law (2026). Serands clients in San Francisco, CA and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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- Janelle Walker is an attorney in the Project Finance and Public Finance group, serving as counsel to a wide variety of clients, including issuers, underwriters, and borrowers on a variety of public finance transactions
- My focus I serve as bond, co-bond counsel, disclosure counsel, special counsel, and underwriters’ counsel on a variety of tax-exempt and taxable municipal finance transactions, including those related to general municipal infrastructure, affordable housing and redevelopment, transportation, power generation and transmission, and water and wastewater services
- I assist with preparing and reviewing a variety of documents as part of due diligence, drafting offerings and memoranda, and researching complex legal issues
- Looking ahead With investors’ growing interest in investment opportunities that provide positive social benefits and remedy structural inequities—and especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting crises—I will be following the rise of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) bonds with a particular focus on social impact bonds
- I look forward to working closely with our clients in exploring creative financing possibilities and preparing accurate disclosures to assist in achieving these social goals at the municipal level
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Business attorneys advise founders and growing companies on entity formation, contracts, financing, M&A, and dispute resolution.
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Practicing law in California. Legal matters in California are governed by state-specific rules of civil and criminal procedure, statutes of limitations, and substantive law. Cases originating in San Francisco are typically filed in the local municipal court or the appropriate California state district court, depending on subject matter and amount in controversy. An attorney licensed in California brings working knowledge of local procedural deadlines, judicial practices in this andnue, and the substantive law that applies to cases brought here. Out-of-state attorneys generally cannot represent clients in California courts without local counsel or pro hac vice admission.
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