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Adam Gordon

Adam Gordon

USA 2026

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Practice Areas

Public Finance

Project Finance

Community Development Finance

Economic Development Bonds

Public-Private Partnerships (P3)

Transportation Facilities

Career

Adam Gordon is a partner in Nixon Peabody’s Project Finance and Public Finance group whose practice focuses on infrastructure, economic development, and project finance. He serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriters’ counsel, and bank counsel on tax-exempt and taxable bond issuances, with experience across private activity, nonprofit, housing, transportation, pooled lending, waste management, and public power financings, and he has published on public finance topics.

Adam has significant experience representing New York State industrial development agencies and local development corporations, including the New York City Economic Development Corporation, drafting and negotiating transaction documents for tax benefit transactions and conduit financings. A substantial portion of his practice is devoted to transportation finance, including serving as bond counsel to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, as well as bond counsel to the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority; he also represents financial institutions on credit and liquidity facilities and direct purchases of privately placed debt, and advises clients on evolving disclosure practices and market developments such as the LIBOR transition.

Professional Memberships

National Association of Bond Lawyers

The Municipal Forum of New York, Associate Board Member

Education

New York University School of Law

JD

Hamilton College

BA

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Public Finance - New York

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Adam Gordon has a wide-ranging practice that sees him acting in the capacity of bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter's counsel on a variety of bond issuances, including both tax-exempt and taxable.

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  • Adam has provided thoughtful, reliable advice and executed his role very effectively.

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