Kris Moussette is a trusted advisor to nonprofit organizations, quasi-public authorities, and governmental issuers. With decades of experience serving as bond counsel, borrower’s counsel, lender’s counsel, and underwriter’s counsel, she handles all aspects of public finance, including structuring and facilitating tax-exempt and taxable bond transactions and other financing vehicles to help clients achieve their strategic goals efficiently.
Kris also serves as outside corporate counsel to several higher education institutions, advising on public-private partnerships, debt covenant compliance, corporate formation, and acquisition financing. She recently advised a nonprofit hospital system on its merger with another nonprofit teaching hospital system. Her practice includes guiding debt issuances for 501(c)(3) organizations such as private colleges and universities, secondary schools, hospitals, health care systems, and cultural institutions like museums. She also represents governmental issuers on large-scale infrastructure projects to improve airports, water, sewer, and other public facilities, and serves as bond counsel to cities and towns across Massachusetts.
Kris serves as bond counsel to The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the States of Maine and Rhode Island, and advises The Commonwealth on its infrastructure development program (I-Cubed). She is well-versed in securities law compliance and serves as disclosure counsel for a variety of clients. She has also drafted legislation to establish new bond issuers and to facilitate the combination of existing issuers.
Kris is the past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the ALS Association, Massachusetts Chapter. She earned her J.D. from Boston College Law School and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Colby College.