Kutak Rock is pleased to announce that 28 attorneys have been elected to the partnership, effective January 1, 2026. The new partners practice across a wide range of disciplines and are located in 11 of the firm’s nationwide offices.

“Members of this exceptional class have distinguished themselves in their practice, earned the trust and respect of their colleagues and their clients, and contributed meaningfully to their communities,” said John Petr, Chair of Kutak Rock. “We are proud to welcome them to the partnership and are confident they will continue to strengthen our collaborative culture and support the firm’s ongoing success and growth.”

Please join us in congratulating:

Atlanta

Jessica L. Nichols
Jessica’s practice focuses on public finance, particularly with respect to conduit financings for charter school, multifamily housing, higher education, senior living, nonprofit healthcare and economic development projects across the country.

Denver

Katie J. Crane
Katie’s practice centers on complex real estate and real estate financing transactions. She represents developers, healthcare systems, lenders, REITs, community land trusts and other investors in a variety of transactions including acquiring, selling, exchanging, leasing, financing and developing commercial real estate.

Erich T. Kennedy
Erich focuses his practice on public and commercial finance representing banks, underwriters, issuers and borrowers in a variety of roles, including as bond counsel on taxable and tax-exempt financings.  Erich also provides corporate and business counsel to senior living facilities.

Michael L. Weiner
Michael’s practice focuses on the representation of emerging growth companies in the areas of corporate formation, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and angel finance, public offerings, and securities regulation. He represents public and private companies in a variety of industries, including biotech/medical device, renewable energy, cannabis, social media and software.

Irvine

Charles C. McKenna
Charles brings his clients more than 30 years of experience in business litigation, real estate law, public entity representation, mortgage lending and servicing, and labor and employment law. He has successfully represented clients in complex corporate matters, including ownership disputes among shareholders/LLC members; franchisor/franchisee contract actions; real estate litigation, including purchase and sale actions, inverse condemnation matters, construction disputes, and cutting edge land use law; lender defense, including title claims; and the defense of private and public clients in discrimination and wrongful termination claims, wage and hour class action lawsuits, and civil rights actions. Charles also counsels his clients proactively, in the role of outside general counsel, to minimize risk exposure. Active in the local legal community, Charles especially enjoys his membership in the Orange County Celtic Bar Association.   

Susan B. Stabe
Susan has nearly three decades of experience in intellectual property. Her practice has long focused on domestic and international trademark and copyright prosecution, intellectual property enforcement, licensing, dispute resolution, and domain name litigation. Susan also regularly advises clients in matters related to advertising and unfair competition.

Kansas City

Nicholas R. Boyle
Nick’s practice is focused on the representation of foreign and domestic financial institutions in municipal, healthcare, higher education and other not-for-profit financings, including providing credit enhancement and liquidity support for taxable and tax-exempt securities and the direct purchase of such securities.

Bridget M. Morris
Bridget practices in the firm’s Public Finance Department and Secondary Markets Working Group. She represents clients in various types of public finance transactions, including bond financings, securitizations, asset-backed structured financings, synthetic tax-exempt securities, derivatives, municipal securities, general securities and corporate law matters.

Scott J. Strohm
Scott is a registered patent attorney with a practice encompassing all areas of intellectual property law. He has extensive experience managing IP portfolios and preparing patent, trademark, and copyright applications. Scott’s practice also focuses on IP enforcement and litigation.

Little Rock

Matthew C. Boch
Matt is a tax, business, and regulatory attorney with a focus on state and local taxes (SALT) and economic development incentives. Matt advises taxpayers on SALT matters across the country and represents them in audits and appeals. In his economic development practice, he negotiates and implements incentive packages that that have created thousands of jobs and more than a billion dollars of capital investment.

Alexander T. Jones
Alex represents commercial and industrial clients in commercial litigation, including breach of contract, mass tort, class action and other complex litigation in federal court, state court, and in arbitration proceedings. Alex develops and executes litigation strategy for new industry and has served as lead counsel at trial, motions hearings, and depositions.

McKenzie L. Raub
McKenzie represents clients in contractual disputes, corporate governance disputes, class action defense and other complex litigation matters in state court, federal court and in arbitration proceedings. McKenzie’s appellate practice encompasses crafting legal arguments on dispositive motions and at trial, consulting on hearing and trial strategy, advising clients on the likelihood of success on appeal and preparing appellate briefs, motions and petitions.

Minneapolis

Jenny S. Boulton
Jenny has served as bond counsel and special development counsel to numerous cities, housing and redevelopment authorities, economic development authorities, counties and other governmental entities for nearly three decades. Jenny’s bond practice includes revenue, 501(c)(3), rental housing, industrial development and general obligations. She also is experienced in tax-exempt lease financing, tax increment financing and economic development.

Gina A. Fiorini
Gina acts as bond counsel to a variety of political subdivisions, including counties, cities, economic development authorities and townships in governmental purpose and conduit revenue bond transactions. She has experience financing numerous types of projects such as multifamily housing projects, sports facilities, senior housing and healthcare facilities, hospitals, charter schools and other nonprofit facilities.

Sofia E. Lykke
Sofia acts as bond counsel to a variety of Minnesota political subdivisions, including counties, cities, school districts and townships in governmental purpose and conduit revenue bond transactions, including those providing for the financing of public capital improvement projects and equipment acquisition, affordable multifamily housing facilities, senior housing and healthcare facilities, and charter schools and other educational facilities. Sofia also acts as developmental counsel to such political subdivisions as part of her economic development practice.

Omaha

Drew D. Barnhart
Drew’s practice focuses on transactions involving low-income housing tax credits, historic rehabilitation tax credits and renewable energy tax credits, as well as other related state and federal financing products. He also works with syndicators to form multi-investor low-income housing tax credit syndication funds. He primarily represents institutional lenders, banks, syndicators, investment funds and corporations in connection with equity and tax aspects of both upper-tier and lower-tier investments.

Matthew E. Carlson
As a member of the tax credits department, Matt focuses his practice on counseling investors and syndicators regarding equity and tax matters in low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) transactions throughout the country.

Emma K. Hybl
Emma’s practice focuses on real estate matters for low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) transactions. She represents tax credit investors and syndicators with respect to real estate matters for both debt and equity financing aspects of lower-tier and upper-tier investments across the United States.

Andrew R. Moats
Andrew’s real estate transactions practice includes matters involving the low-income housing tax credit program, historic tax credit program, and real estate aspects of solar project investing. Representative clients include real estate investors, tax credit syndicators, direct investors, financial institutions and banks in transactions throughout the United States.

Ashley A. Moore
Ashley is a member of the firm's Insurance & Risk Working Group and represents clients facing a wide variety of complex litigation including contractual, insurance and bad faith disputes.

Allyssa J. Wall
A member of the firm’s tax credit practice group, Allyssa focuses her practice on community development and tax incentive finance products, including renewable energy investment tax credits (ITC) and production tax credits (PTC), federal and state low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC), and other related state and federal financing products.

Rogers

Maggie Rushing McGill
Maggie represents various corporate and healthcare clients, including health systems, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices, and health plans. She regularly provides counsel to clients on federal and state regulatory, operational and compliance matters.

William J. Swartzwelder
Bill is part of a team based in Arkansas that has a local and national practice representing clients across a wide array of corporate and securities matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, public and private offerings of securities, corporate governance, venture capital investments and other related transactional and regulatory matters.

Scottsdale

Verity G. Kang
Verity’s practice focuses exclusively on public finance, particularly with respect to the issuance of multifamily housing revenue bonds (including 4% low-income housing tax credit financings), and typically involves transactions utilizing conduit issuers in the affordable housing space. She primarily serves as bond counsel and issuer’s counsel in such transactions and has experience serving as counsel to developers.

Kenneth S. Witt
An experienced corporate and securities attorney, Ken represents commercial banks and other institutional clients as well as companies in a number of industry verticals, including AI, quantum computing, energy, private investment funds and other commercial and industrial clients. His work includes institutional investments, mergers and acquisitions, tech company representation and securities regulation. Ken is Co-Chair of the firm’s Institutional Investment Group.

Tallahassee

Ryan J. Dugan
Ryan counsels special districts in Florida on matters relating to district operations and governance, including financing of infrastructure, contracts, public procurement of goods and services, ethics, public records, and open meetings. Additionally, he counsels landowners and developers regarding special district formation and financing of infrastructure.

Michelle K. Rigoni
Michelle counsels special districts, landowners, developers and other related parties on matters relating to special district formation and governance, public financing and construction of infrastructure, and land development. She further counsels many of the districts on matters such as contracts, real property, public procurement of goods and services, ethics, public records and open meetings.

Washington, D.C.

David S. Gallacher
David is a regulatory attorney, representing companies providing products and services to the government. He helps companies navigate the complex web of state, local and federal regulations that apply when companies operate in the public sector—whether as a contractor, a supplier, or a nonprofit grant recipient. He also helps companies navigate the difficult regulatory issues relating to international trade, Buy American, and U.S. export control laws. He has extensive litigation experience, having litigated public contract disputes in federal courts across the country and before the specialized administrative bodies in Washington, D.C.