The James (November 2024)

On November 26, 2024 Sims closed on the $473.0 million financing, including serving as sole manager for $455.0 million of senior tax-exempt and taxable bonds underwritten by Sims and $18.0 million of tax-exempt subordinate debt.

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La Scuola International School (October 2024)

Sims priced the deal on September 26, 2024 and closed October 8, 2024. The issuance consisted of three term bonds with a final maturity of 40 years. The bonds were nonrated and the first term bond maturing in 2044 has an anytime call option at par. Sims was able to land La Scuola a true interest cost of 5.35%.

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Renaissance Charter School (October 2023)

On November 18, 2022, HJ Sims closed on the $9.725 million Series 2022D&E Bonds. They successfully refinanced previously existing 1-year corporate taxable bonds and extended the maturity to 28 years. Renaissance is on track to close another transaction in late October 2023 for the purposes of financing certain acquisition and renovation costs at two of its charter schools in Broward County, FL.

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Pathways to College (September 2023)

On September 14, 2023, HJ Sims closed on the $25.1 million Series 2023 Bonds with the entire issuance purchased by an institutional investor. Once the construction project is completed in the summer of 2024, PTC will move into its new campus at the start of the 2024-25 school year.

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