Kenneth Pollock

Public Finance; Economic Development and Incentives; Governmental Finance; Bond Law

Ken Pollock is a public finance attorney with over 25 years of experience in public finance transactions. He regularly serves as bond counsel, as disclosure counsel, and as counsel to underwriters, issuers, borrowers, trustees, banks, and credit enhancers in tax-exempt and taxable financings for governmental and private entities. Ken has significant experience on virtually every financing structure used by state and local governments in Georgia to finance governmental projects, including general obligation bonds and sales tax bonds for counties, municipalities, and school districts, revenue bonds for water, sewer, and storm water systems, urban redevelopment projects, airports, arenas and convention facilities, gas and electric utilities, and other governmental enterprises, tax anticipation notes, bond anticipation notes, annual appropriation debt, and debt secured by intergovernmental contracts. His expertise in conduit financing has benefitted integrated health care systems, hospitals, senior living facilities, charter schools, private K-12 schools, higher education and research facilities, manufacturing facilities, and multifamily housing developments. Ken has participated in a variety of financing structures involving fixed rate and variable rate structures, public offerings, private placements, bank direct purchases, lease financings, insured and letter of credit-backed bonds, remarketing, interest rate conversions, and various derivative products, including interest rate swaps. He has significant experience on complex economic development projects, including advising public entities, private developers, large publicly traded corporations, and a major nonprofit healthcare system regarding property tax abatement and other public incentives in Georgia.

National Association of Bond Lawyers; American College of Bond Counsel; State Bar of Georgia, Local Government Section

Ken received his Bachelor of Science, Finance, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law where he served on the Editorial Board of the Georgia Law Review. He is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell, and his work in Public Finance Law has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America ©, Georgia Trend’s Legal Elite and GaBiz Magazine. Ken has been admitted as a Fellow of the American College of Bond Counsel in recognition of his accomplishments and legal expertise in the field of bond law. He is admitted to the State Bar of Georgia.