Mark Vacha

Practice Areas

Mark leads the Public and Project Finance Practice’s work in the area of taxation for tax-advantaged municipal securities transactions and handles Section 103 matters for the group. He focuses on bond structures and tax compliance advice to assist state and local governments, conduit issuers, and borrowers in various areas where there is eligibility to receive benefits under the Internal Revenue Code. He focuses both on the tax implications of structuring and marketing a new issue as well as with respect to facility management and use, investments, and capital/debt planning well beyond the time of a particular issuance.

Mark has served as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, and underwriter’s counsel, handling municipal bond transactions involving cities, counties, states, and commonwealth-level entities, industrial and economic development authorities, and nonprofit entities, including hospitals, universities, and museums. He also works as counsel in taxable bond transactions, debt restructurings, working capital financings, municipal securitizations, tax increment and special assessment district financings, and municipal derivative transactions.

Professional Memberships

Government Finance Officers Association of Pennsylvania

National Association of Bond Lawyers

Pennsylvania Association of Bond Lawyers

Education