Orrick adds health care specialist Helmlinger to public finance practice

Orrick is adding healthcare finance lawyer Robyn Helmlinger to its public finance group as a partner, based in San Francisco. She joins the firm from Squire Patton Boggs, where she led a healthcare finance initiative.

“Robyn is widely recognized as one of the top healthcare finance lawyers in the country,” said Jenna Magan, who recently became co-leader of Orrick’s Public Finance practice along with Roger Davis, taking over for Justin Cooper, who has stepped into the role of Finance Sector Leader. “She has built a substantial practice and developed institutional relationships that will add strength on strength. We’re thrilled to welcome yet another leading woman to the team.”

Jenna Magan, co-leader of Orrick’s Public Finance practice

For two decades, Helmlinger has been advising issuers, borrowers and underwriters involved in issuing municipal bonds, with a focus in the U.S. healthcare industry. She counsels clients on implementing complex financings and debt programs and developing new financial structures. Most recently, She advised a newly created hospital authority on its first borrowing, which included restructuring its treasury management services, and counseled a nonprofit healthcare system on a two-phase restructuring of its existing debt, in order to implement a new master debt structure.

“I am simply thrilled to join this dominant practice in public finance and in the healthcare sector – and one known for innovating and driving market changes,” said Helmlinger.

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She is a Fellow of the American College of Bond Counsel, a member of the National Association of Bond Counsel and a founding member and advisory committee member of Women in Public Finance – Northern California Chapter.

Over the past five years, Orrick has ranked as the #1 bond counsel, with a 16.9% market share, and #3 underwriter’s counsel, with a 7.2% market share, by Refinitiv for health care financings nationally (based on dollar volume).

In 2018, Orrick continued to hold its dominant position as the #1 bond counsel on healthcare transactions with more than double the par amount handled by the runner-up firm. The team works with many of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in the U.S. and has served as bond, disclosure, issuer or underwriters counsel on more than 400 healthcare issues totaling $40 billion since 1998.

Orrick, for the 20th year, was the nation’s #1 bond counsel for 2018, as well as the #1 disclosure counsel and #2 underwriter's counsel nationally.

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