Commercial & Public Finance

• Represent state townships and municipalities in bond and note issuances, including the drafting of related financing agreements.
• Represent bank and corporate borrower clients in financing arrangements ranging from the hundreds of thousands of dollars to $60 million.
• Represent state townships and municipalities with bond and note issuances, as well as tax increment financing arrangements.
• Advise and represent banks with bank-qualified bond purchases and letter of credit support, including the drafting of bond purchase agreements, reimbursement agreements and disclosure documents.
• Represent banks as placement agents for foreign lending backed by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
• Counsel to the bank in its direct purchase of over $30 million of tax exempt economic development revenue bonds for the improvement of senior living facilities.
• Represented the placement agent in connection with $5 million of industrial building revenue bonds for the expansion of manufacturing facilities.
• Represented the placement agent in connection with $10 million of industrial revenue bonds for the acquisition, construction and equipping of an automotive exhaust system manufacturing facility.
• Counsel to the bank in its direct purchase of $15 million in economic development refunding revenue bonds to provide proceeds to reimburse bonds that were originally issued to refinance the acquisition, construction and equipping of a new auditorium and athletic field house.

Corporate Transactions & Securities

• Conduct an on-going review of various contracts for publicly held and privately held companies and nonprofits, including international organizations.
• Represent both privately held and publicly held clients with merger and acquisition transactions with purchase prices up to $2.5 billion.
• Advise board of directors and special committees of privately held companies on various corporate governance issues.
• Assisted a large privately held company in bankruptcy restructuring, a subsequent tax restructuring, a sale of certain assets of its subsidiaries and various credit refinancing efforts.