Jason W. Turner

Biography

Jason Turner is a native West Virginian with a passion for fostering economic development and growth in his home state. Jason enjoys working as part of a team and works closely with developers, municipalities, county commissions, and healthcare systems to help them plan and implement funding.

Jason’s financing experience includes working with tax-exempt and taxable bond issues of all types, TIF Districts, and other government and tax incentives. His practice helps a variety of public and quasi-public organizations secure funding for asset purchase, infrastructure development, and land development projects to improve their communities.

Representative Experience

  • Assisted in serving as bond counsel for West Virginia county commission in issuance of tax increment financing bonds and special district excise tax bonds to finance public infrastructure improvements within a large mixed-use retail, office and entertainment development
  • Assisted in serving as bond counsel for West Virginia municipality in issuance of tax increment financing bonds to finance the acquisition, repair, renovation and maintenance of a public parking garage and other public infrastructure improvements
  • Served as bond counsel for West Virginia county commission in issuance of tax increment financing bonds and special district excise tax bonds to finance public infrastructure improvements within a large mixed-use retail, office, and entertainment development
  • Assisted in serving as bond counsel for West Virginia municipality for a sales tax revenue bond issue to finance road and bridge improvements and the total rehabilitation of a historic public theatre facility
  • Assisted in representation of regional underwriting firm for the issuance of tax increment financing bonds
  • Served as bond counsel for West Virginia municipality for a sales tax revenue bond issue to finance road and bridge improvements and the total rehabilitation of a historic public theatre facility
  • Served as bond counsel for tax increment financing bond issues to finance and refinance infrastructure improvements and mass grading of land in a 160 acre mixed-use professional office park
  • Served as bond counsel for a regional hospital facility for a private placement, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) bond financing for refinancing of outstanding debt
  • Served as bond counsel for a West Virginia municipal building commission in issuance of lease revenue bonds to finance replacement of bridge
  • Served as special commissioner appointed by West Virginia circuit court to conduct annual statutory audit of general receiver

Licensed In

  • West Virginia

Education

  • J.D. West Virginia University College of Law
  • B.A. University of Kentucky

Memberships

  • Board of Directors and Chair of Development Committee, Spark! Imagination and Science Center, Morgantown, WV
  • National Association of Bond Lawyers
  • Executive Research Editor, W. Va. Law Review, Vol. 117
  • Associate Editor, W. Va. Law Review, Vol. 116
  • Member, United States Supreme Court Clinic

Achievements

  • CALI Awards: Constitutional Law; Civil Disobedience and the Law; Complex Litigation; Intellectual Property; Legislative Process; Lawyers as Leaders; Nonprofit Organizations; United States Supreme Court Clinic 1; United States Supreme Court Clinic 2
  • ABA-Bloomberg BNA Award for Excellence in Labor and Employment Law
  • Patrick Duffy Koontz Award
  • Order of the Coif

Speaking Engagements

  • “Scratching the Surface: ‘Uncertainty and Confusion’ in Faith United Methodist v. Morgan,” W. Va. Law Review Online, Vol. 117

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