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Charles S Henck

Charles S Henck

USA 2026

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Practice Areas

Bioenergy and Biomanufacturing

Energy

Finance

Infrastructure

Municipal Recovery

Public Finance

Career

Charles S. Henck counsels clients on the tax attributes of complex capital infrastructure projects. He regularly advises on municipal and corporate financings for utility, energy prepayment contracts, industrial and infrastructure facilities. Charlie has served as bond counsel, underwriter counsel, special tax counsel, and company counsel in a wide range of transactions, including revenue bond, private activity bond, general obligation bond, and leveraged lease financings.

Ranked Band 1 in Public Finance by Chambers USA, Charlie has extensive experience in the issuance and restructuring of project and revenue-based tax-exempt financings for solid waste disposal and resource recovery facilities. He also has been involved as counsel to the borrower and the issuer in several IRS audits of bonds issued to finance utility, industrial, and infrastructure facilities, and is a frequent lecturer and panelist in national conferences on federal tax matters relating to financings of these facilities.

Charlie recently served as chair of a working group of the National Association of Bond Lawyers' Tax Law Committee that drafted comments about the implementation of various bond related aspects of the Inflation Reduction Act. Prior to private practice, Charlie was an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel of the IRS.

Education

Emory University

B.A.

Georgetown University Law Center

L.L.M.

Emory University School of Law

J.D.

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Public Finance - District of Columbia

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Charles Henck is sought after for his significant expertise in the federal tax aspects of public finance transactions. He has notable strength in solid waste infrastructure financings.

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