Charles Toto

Practice Areas

Government Finance

Not-for-Profit Finance

Capital Markets

Securities Law

Corporate Governance

Career

Chuck Toto started his career as an associate at Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP in 1986. He became a partner in 1995. Chuck joined the firm’s management committee in 2018 and currently continues to serve in that capacity.

Chuck’s career is focused on serving as bond counsel, underwriters' counsel or borrowers' counsel in connection with hospital, nursing home, retirement community, college, university and independent school financings throughout the country.

Chuck’s clients include state and local government agencies, most national, regional and specialty investment banking firms and not-for-profit corporations of all sizes. He has assisted a wide variety of borrowers in navigating the bond financing process. His corporate clients range in size and scope from the nation’s leading healthcare systems and higher education institutions to community social service providers and local cultural organizations.

In addition to bond transactions, Chuck has represented health care institutions and other not-for-profit corporations in post-issuance tax and securities law compliance, derivative transactions, direct lending, asset securitizations, asset sales, mergers and consolidations, credit facilities, joint ventures and other capital markets transactions. Chuck has served as counsel to the issuer and the dealer manager in tender offers of both municipal securities and corporate securities. He has also guided clients in preparing grant applications and in reviewing proposed legislation.

Chuck has served as a panel chair at the National Association of Bond Lawyers - Tax and Securities Law Institute and a panelist at the National Association of Bond Lawyers - Annual Workshop and as a speaker at the National Association of Health and Educational Facilities Finance Authorities conferences. He is also a frequent speaker at the New Jersey Health Care Financial Managers Association and at client sponsored conferences and board retreats. In 2015, Chuck was elected a Fellow in the American College of Bond Counsel.

Professional Memberships

National Association of Bond Lawyers

American College of Bond Counsel

American Bar Association

Education