Clients rely on Barbara Kroncke’s extensive experience with capital financing, including the issuance and sale of tax-exempt and taxable bonds and other securities, to fund and advance long-term energy supply agreements and major infrastructure, real estate, and economic development projects. She helps her clients foster opportunities by leveraging her in-depth understanding of public finance and public-private partnerships (P3s). Her connections in the P3 project space run deep, having served as the Executive Director of the University of Massachusetts Building Authority (UMBA), where she helped implement several P3 development projects funded through the issuance of public debt, including a cutting-edge housing project using a concession agreement model.
Her experience in the energy sector includes representing public utilities and their related joint action agencies in implementing prepaid energy supply contracts for the acquisition of long-term supplies of natural gas and electricity at below-index rates funded by the issuance of municipal bonds. This includes representing one joint action agency client as bond counsel in the issuance of bonds.
Barbara not only serves as bond counsel in projects but also as counsel to underwriters, borrowers, purchasers of municipal securities, and credit enhancers. During her career, she has provided such services to Massachusetts state authorities and agencies as well as to colleges, universities, healthcare institutions, and other not-for-profit institutions.
Active in the Massachusetts legal community, Barbara served as a commissioner, appointed by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, on the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission and is a founding member and former president of Women in Public Finance, Boston. A frequent speaker, she has presented at conferences and educational seminars regarding infrastructure, economic development matters, and issues affecting tax-exempt financings.
