Ben McGuire

Practice Areas

Public Finance & Infrastructure

Public-Private Partnerships (P3)

Project & Infrastructure Finance

Rail & Transit

Public Utilities

Transportation

Education

Renewable Energy

Infrastructure

Finance

Capital Markets

Career

Ben McGuire is Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig's Public Finance & Infrastructure Practice. He advises on a wide range of public finance, infrastructure, project finance, and commercial loan transactions, including public debt offerings, private placements, and direct lending. He serves as bond counsel, issuer's counsel, disclosure counsel, and borrower’s counsel on tax-exempt, tax credit and taxable financings for a variety of governmental, non-profit, and corporate borrowers. He also serves as underwriter's counsel, purchaser's counsel, and bank counsel to various investment and commercial banks in connection with infrastructure projects.

Ben has participated in financings for state infrastructure projects, including water and sewer, electric utility, highway, rail, airport and seaport facilities; as well as financings for hospitals, public and private colleges and universities, private schools, charter public schools, public school districts, municipalities, cultural institutions, human service providers, assisted living facilities, manufacturers, fixed base operators, solid waste disposal facilities, and surface transportation facilities. These transactions have involved various financing structures, credit enhancements, security provisions, intercreditor arrangements, and interest rate hedges.

Ben has participated in public finance transactions in every state in New England and throughout the United States and its territories, including projects in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, New York, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Puerto Rico.

Professional Memberships

Treasurer, Providence After School Alliance, Board of Directors

Overseer, USS Constitution Museum

Member, The Cicilline Committee, Finance Committee

Member, Eastern Association of College and University Business Officers

Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers

Member, Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association

Personal

J.D., Boston College Law School, 2007

B.A., Brown University