Public Finance
USA Guide 2024 : USA - Nationwide
Band 2
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Provided by Foley & Lardner LLP
Foley’s Public Finance attorneys have long been leaders in public finance with a yearly average of almost 300 transactions and an aggregate principal amount of more than $17 billion for more than 40 years.
Our attorneys leverage their experience in all of the principal public finance capacities to create transactions to meet your needs. We serve as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, and conduit borrower’s counsel. We also represent other participants such as developers, credit enhancers, liquidity providers, securitizers, and major investors.
We focus on tax exemption and disclosure counseling and due diligence in a variety of market sectors, including government finance, housing, health care, senior living, airport and transportation, economic and community development, student loans, asset securitization, and swaps and derivatives. We also counsel clients during participation in various HUD programs.
Through our broad experience in finance and related legal services, our deal-making focus, and our knowledge of the industry, we can help you create transactions that meet your needs.
Chambers Review
Foley & Lardner LLP has a highly regarded public finance practice with broad capabilities across a range of projects including housing and healthcare. It provides expert counsel to state and local governmental bodies with particular strength in Florida and Illinois. In addition to its strength representing public entities, the firm ably assists banks and other private clients.
Chicago-based Laura Bilas is chair of Foley & Lardner's public finance practice.
Work Highlights
- Foley & Lardner LLP represented O’Connor Woods, a California-based retirement and assisted living facility as underwriter on a tax-exempt forward-delivery advance refunding bond issue.