Joan N Stern

Practice Areas

Joan N. Stern has established herself as one of the country’s top public finance attorneys. She concentrates her practice in the areas of general government and education, transportation and utilities, tax and revenue anticipation financing, health care and housing finance, refinancing and working capital finance, project finance, and derivatives transactions. Joan serves clients in the full range of public finance matters, including serving as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, issuer’s counsel, and trustee’s counsel for all types of bond issues, tax-exempt and taxable; drafting debt and finance legislation for a variety of financing programs for governmental and corporate clients; derivative transactions; and enforcement matters involving the SEC and the IRS.