Blake D. Mason

Blake D. Mason is a partner at Leverage Law Group, LLC in Leawood, Kansas. He focuses on financing transactions involving new markets tax credits. He has represented lenders, investors, community development entities, and borrowers in closing these transactions. His practice covers projects with different public and commercial purposes, including community centers, educational facilities, health centers, manufacturing plants, and mixed-use buildings.

Blake earned a B.S., Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2005. He later received a J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 2008. His education provides a foundation in legal analysis and problem solving. Those skills support the review of financing arrangements in which transaction terms, project needs, and the obligations of multiple participating organizations must work together.

Blake’s experience includes new markets tax credit transactions paired with historic tax credit structures. He has also worked with combined state and federal new market tax credit structures and other federal, state, and local subsidies. In addition to closing transactions, he handles modifications and exits involving new market tax credits. His background also includes closing renewable energy tax credit transactions, extending his work into energy project financing.

Blake D. Mason is licensed in Missouri and Kansas. His experience spans the initial financing of projects and later changes to existing tax credit arrangements. A transaction’s legal needs can develop as the project and its participants move through different stages. His work across closings, modifications, and exits supports clients addressing those changes while considering how several sources of financing and incentives fit within the overall structure.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Leverage Law Group, LLC
• Member, The Missouri Bar
• Member, Kansas Bar Association

Licensed State

• Missouri
• Kansas

Education

• Duke University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Missouri-Columbia
  Bachelor of Science (BS) Summa Cum Laude

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