Roxsen E. Koch is a shareholder and director of King Hershey. Ms. Koch is a 1989 graduate of the University of Kansas School of Law. She received her undergraduate degree in economics with honors from the University of Missouri at Columbia, where she was a teaching assistant in the area of money and banking. Ms. Koch has received the highest rating of AV® Preeminent™ by her peers through the Martindale Hubble Peer Review Ratings.
Ms. Koch has extensive experience in real estate development and public finance. She was the lead drafter of Missouri's legislation for the Community Improvement District Act and 1996 amendments to the Transportation Development District Act. Ms. Koch's extensive experience in the area of tax increment financing led to her appointment to a subcommittee of the Missouri Tax Increment Financing Association ('MOTIFA') now known as the Missouri Economic Development Financing Association Inc., where she took a lead role in drafting recommended changes to the Real Property Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act of Missouri.
Ms. Koch represents developers, municipalities and taxing districts in all aspects of real estate development and public and private finance and the use of various economic development tools. She represented the Tax Increment Financing Commissions of Excelsior Springs, Missouri and the City of Parkville, Missouri, in the approval of redevelopment plans, bond issues and negotiations with private developers.
Ms. Koch is listed in the Red Book and is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers. Ms. Koch served as bond counsel for projects issuing Missouri’s first neighborhood improvement district bonds and community improvement district bonds. Ms. Koch has served as bond counsel and issuers counsel on a variety of municipal bonds issued by various issuers in the State of Missouri including Platte County, Miller County, City of Excelsior Springs, City of Valley Park, Fulton 54 Transportation Corporation, The 210 highway Transportation Development District, Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of Kansas City, Missouri and Fall Creek Community Improvement District. Ms. Koch has represented various communities and developers regarding the use of tax increment financing and the formation of various districts, including community improvement districts, transportation development districts and neighborhood improvement districts. Ms. Koch has worked with municipalities and developers to integrate the use of multiple economic development tools for complex development projects. Ms. Koch’s experience includes projects instrumental to the revitalization of Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and the surrounding urban core, including the 909 Walnut project, Wallstreet Towers, and the KC Cold Storage building, Westport Community Improvement District, 39th Street Community Improvement District and the Uptown Theatre. Her experience also includes suburban projects such as Hartman Heritage Park in Independence, Missouri. Ms. Koch has developed financing structures, projections, and project pro formas for various hotel projects in the Kansas City area. Working with developers, hotel consultants, and other development team members, Ms. Koch has negotiated financing for the rehabilitation of existing hotels, as well as the development of new hotel properties. Working to structure projects to meet the needs of both developers and communities, Ms. Koch has designed financing structures within the framework of Missouri law which respond to political and market constraints while making the best use of available economic development financing tools. Ms. Koch’s hotel experience includes negotiating financing structures for the convention center hotel proposed in the 1990s for Kansas City, the Aladdin in Kansas City, and the Hilton Garden Inn in Independence, Missouri. Ms. Koch acted as issuer’s counsel on the public/private financing of the Muehlebach and Americana Hotels in Kansas City. Ms. Koch is an alumna of the Centurions, a civic organization formed through the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce to further develop leadership skills of selected young business leaders in the Kansas City community. She served as the chairman of the Task Force on Economic Development Incentives and as a member of the Task Force on Power of the Media. Ms. Koch served on the Board of Directors of Kansas City Consensus. Ms Koch co-chaired the Tax Base Sharing Task Force sponsored by Kansas City Consensus. | 
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