Mary Muñoz joined the senior living team at Ziegler in 1999. She manages the western region of Ziegler’s senior living practice.
Mary joined Ziegler following 12 years of diversified healthcare corporate finance experience, having structured and financed leveraged buyout, merger and acquisition financings among primarily for-profit healthcare providers. Mary has worked with multiple senior living communities and multi-facility systems in structuring and executing tax-exempt bond financing, including start-up CCRC projects, campus expansions and redevelopments, and current and advance refundings. She also specializes in financing senior living mergers and acquisitions, and in financial advisory and capital planning consulting services. Mary’s senior living bond transactions since joining Ziegler total over $2 billion in par amount.
Prior to joining Ziegler, Mary was a managing director in KPMG’s Health Ventures practice. She worked with clients on strategic capital planning, private equity financing, and business plan development; while at KPMG, she structured and executed over $500 million of senior and subordinated debt for health care clients. Prior to joining KPMG, Mary managed the national healthcare finance groups at Wells Fargo Bank and The Bank of Nova Scotia, raising over $5 billion to fund healthcare provider mergers and acquisitions and leveraged recapitalizations.
Mary is a frequent speaker at state and national conferences on a wide variety of senior living topics, and has published numerous articles on senior living finance and credit topics. She received a B.A. and a M.B.A. from Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.