Public Finance

Dilworth Paxson is a nationally recognized Red Book bond counsel firm. Our lawyers have worked on an array of municipal bond issues including:

• State, city, county, and school district general obligation bonds,
• Revenue and infrastructure financings including authority, joint system, state, city, both taxable and tax-exempt 
• Higher education financings 
• Charter school financings 
• Revenue bonds for transportation including airports, toll roads, ports, and mass transit
• Economic development financings 
• Water and sewer financings 
• Resource recovery projects 
• Non-sectarian projects of religious-affiliated institutions 
• Museum and other non-profit and private activity financings 
• Project Finance
• Transportation system financing 
• Hospitals, nursing facilities, and continuing care community financings 
• P3 public/private partnerships 
• City Revitalization and Improvement Zone programs

We have served as bond counsel and special tax counsel, and have represented underwriters, issuers, trustees, borrowers, developers, letter of credit banks, and swap counterparties. The principal amount of our annual transactions totals in the billions.

Members of the Public Finance Group are actively involved as members of the National Association of Bond Lawyers. Our lawyers have lectured on tax structuring, infrastructure financings, and other bond subjects and regularly conduct webinars that are open to the public finance community.