Jacqueline Peppard

Paralegal

Jacqueline Peppard has been working as a paralegal since 1998, with experience in business law and the related fields of contract, corporate, environmental, tax and real estate law. Jacqueline currently works closely with the firm's public finance and business law groups, handling a variety of bond transactions for public-entity clients and corporate work for private-sector clients.

Experience

Jacqueline organizes and coordinates multiple public finance transactions for cities, school districts, special districts and other public entities, ensuring all steps in the document-intensive process are completed and deadlines met. Jacqueline also provides legal support to the firm's business clients in the areas of corporate, tax and real estate law.

Jacqueline's bond/public finance support includes:

Working with clients and attorneys to assist with placing bond measures on local election ballots
Preparing authorizing resolutions for client and county approval and adoption
Assisting attorneys in research, drafting and revision of tax-exempt and taxable bond issue documents
Drafting and customizing documents to align with transaction terms
Preparing and finalizing closing documents for transactions
Following up with clients on document review, signatures and filings
Overall document production, collection and coordination
Completing and filing all necessary reporting documents with state and federal agencies

Prior to joining the paralegal team at KMTG, Jacqueline worked as an exchange counselor in the commercial department of a Qualified Intermediary Corporation facilitating IRS 1031 Tax Deferred Exchanges, where she negotiated, prepared, analyzed and administered a variety of documents, including purchase agreements, leases, operating agreements and insurance policies. She also handled due diligence, closing, post-closing modifications and all third-party documents related to complex financing of commercial transactions. For three years prior to that, she worked as a transactional paralegal in both California and Colorado, where she gained considerable experience drafting, organizing and providing analysis of various business, corporate and real estate documents.

Jacqueline is a member of the Sacramento Valley Paralegal Association, and pursues MCLE courses to enhance her paralegal skills.

Outside of Work

In her free time, Jacqueline enjoys art and the outdoors, and spends a great deal of her time volunteering. During the summer weekends, Jacqueline volunteers as a river guide for Friends of the River, a California statewide river conservation group dedicated to preserving and restoring California's rivers, streams, and their watersheds, as well as advocating for sustainable water management. Jacqueline also donates her time in the summer to Casting for Recovery, where she assists with the flyfishing program on the Pit River in August working as a guide for breast cancer survivors.

Jacqueline is a member of the Granite Bay Flycasters and a signature member of the National Watercolor Society.