Elizabeth Fleming Weber

Elizabeth Fleming Weber graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1971 and received her law degree from Boston University School of Law in 1974. She served as Assistant Counsel to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the highest state court, prior to beginning her public finance career.

Ms. Weber has concentrated in the practice of public finance law since 1977. She has worked extensively on tax-exempt financings for health care, life care, educational and other charitable organizations throughout the United States, including financings for several major health care systems. Ms. Weber has also been involved in numerous complex transactions for health care and other charitable organizations, including acquisitions, mergers, affiliations, joint ventures and restructuring transactions as well as transactions involving the use of derivative products. In addition to her health care practice, Ms. Weber has served as bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel, credit enhancer’s counsel or issuer’s counsel in a variety of other types of tax-exempt financings, including general obligation and municipal utility revenue bond issues as well as airport, housing, student loan and industrial development bond transactions.

Ms. Weber has been a featured speaker for the Illinois Association of Non-Profit Organizations on the subject of tax-exempt financings for charitable organizations. She is admitted to practice in the State of Illinois and the State of New York and is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers. Ms. Weber serves as President of Women in Public Finance, a nonprofit, educational and professional networking organization for women in the public finance industry. She is a member of the American College of Bond Counsel.