Public Finance

Calfee's Public Finance attorneys cover the entire range of governmental borrowings, from routine general obligation bonds and notes of local cities and villages to projects as complex and unique as the redevelopment of inner-ring suburbs, downtown hotels and parking facilities, student housing, and sports facilities and the transformation of a large public hospital. The Public Finance team serves as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, disclosure counsel, issuer’s counsel, and borrower’s counsel for a wide variety of public finance transactions.

Services

• Economic Development Incentives – Assisting businesses and governments in obtaining and providing financial incentives to promote economic development.
• Public/Private Partnership Law – Counseling clients on the development of projects requiring the cooperative use of public and private resources.

Financing Experience

• Tax increment financing
• Capital Lease transactions
• Certificates of Participation
• Lease Revenue Bonds
• Economic development incentives
• Business Improvement Districts
• Public/private investment funds
• New Markets Tax Credit transactions
• Historic Tax Credit projects
• Low Income Housing Tax Credit projects
• Conduit financing
• Tax abatements
• Governmental loans and grants
• Construction financing
• Ground lease financing
• Leveraged lease/loan transactions
• Synthetic lease transactions
• Industrial development bonds
• Equity syndication/participation