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J Foster Clark

J Foster Clark

USA 2026

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Practice Areas

Public Finance; Corporate & Commercial

Career

Foster Clark has extensive experience advising clients as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel and disclosure counsel in taxable and tax-exempt bond financings, including state, county and municipal obligations, private activity bonds and revenue obligations of state and local corporations and instrumentalities. Foster also served as bond counsel in numerous tax-exempt and taxable bond issues for industrial plants, air and water pollution control facilities, and sewage and solid waste disposal facilities in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and Arkansas.

Professional Memberships

National Association of Bond Lawyers, President, 2007 - 2008; President-Elect, 2006 - 2007; Treasurer, 2005 - 2006; Secretary, 2004 - 2005

American College of Bond Counsel, Fellow; Board of Directors, 2011 - 2012

Alabama State Bar, International Law Section, Past President

Registered on the Alabama State Court Mediator Roster

Publications

Alabama’s Existing Constitutional Provisions Impacting Economic Development, 33 Cumberland Law Review, 2002

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Public Finance - Alabama

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Individual Editorial

Foster Clark is well regarded in the market and renowned for his extensive public financing expertise. He serves as warrant and bond counsel to a range of clients, including public authorities and industrial facilities.

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