Butler Snow LLP is pleased to welcome attorney Drew Moore to the firm’s Jacksonville, Florida office. He brings a wealth of experience in public finance and business law, having represented and advised various sophisticated clients on complex project finance transactions and corporate governance matters. Moore is a member of the firm’s nationally recognized Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets Group and joins fellow public finance attorneys Emily F. Magee and Bailey N. Williams in Jacksonville, expanding the depth and capabilities of the firm’s presence in Florida.
Prior to joining Butler Snow, Moore worked for a global law firm where he practiced public finance and business law as an attorney in the public finance and healthcare finance practice group assigned to that firm’s Dallas, Texas, office. During this role, he focused on healthcare system clients involved in various tax-exempt and taxable financing transactions relating to the construction of healthcare facilities, healthcare operations, and other commercial transactions, including affiliations and mergers, and financial institution clients for financing transactions relating to colleges and universities. Moore is licensed to practice in both Florida and Texas.
Moore began his legal career and gained essential experience at the Jacksonville, Florida office of a national law firm where he led complex multi-million-dollar project finance transactions in the roles of bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, purchaser’s counsel and borrower’s counsel, among others, for a variety of clients, including underwriters, financial institutions, health care systems, senior living communities, charter schools, units of local government, airports, seaports, universities and other 501(c)(3) organizations. Additionally, he has been recognized for his pro bono service representing at-risk children in state court as an attorney ad litem.
Moore’s journey into law followed nearly a decade of service as a deputy sheriff, including five years as a special victims detective for a sheriff’s office in Florida, where he investigated child abuse, sex crimes, and intimate partner violence cases prosecuted at both the state and federal level.
Moore earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Florida Warrington College of Business Administration and obtained his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, graduating in December 2016. He has been a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers since 2017.