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Provided by Robert H. Beinfield
Bob Beinfield joined Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP in 1985 as an associate attorney and became a partner in 1995. He has specialized in public finance matters of New Jersey counties, municipalities, schools and state and local agencies and authorities. His work with such issuers has involved all phases of the authorization, sale and issuance of general obligation and revenue bonds and certificates of participation including attention to official statement preparation and review, priority of liens and other security considerations, refunding issues, arbitrage and other tax law related matters, and disclosure issues and other securities law related matters.
Mr. Beinfield has served as bond counsel or underwriters’ counsel in hundreds of financings in the State of New Jersey, including financings for municipalities, counties, school districts, sewerage authorities, municipal and county utilities authorities, county improvement authorities, housing authorities, parking authorities, fire districts, redevelopment agencies and other issuers. Mr. Beinfield has served as bond counsel to, among other issuers, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, the State of New Jersey in connection with its $5.8 billion Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes, the New Jersey Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation in connection with its $3.4 billion of tobacco settlement asset-backed bonds and the New Jersey Turnpike. Mr. Beinfield has also served as bond counsel to the New Jersey Water Supply Authority, the North Jersey District Water Supply Commission, the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners, the Counties of Atlantic, Cape May, Essex, Morris, Passaic and Union, the Camden County Improvement Authority, the Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority, the Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority, the Monmouth County Improvement Authority, the Rockaway Valley Regional Sewerage Authority, the Somerset Raritan Valley Sewerage Authority and the Stony Brook Regional Sewage Authority.
Mr. Beinfield acted as underwriters’ counsel in connection with the $2.8 billion New Jersey pension bond financing (at the time, the largest municipal bond offering in history) and has served as underwriters’ counsel in several financings for, among other issuers, the New Jersey Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, the Bergen County Improvement Authority, the Essex County Improvement Authority, the Hudson County Improvement Authority, the Bergen County Utilities Authority, the Essex County Utilities Authority, the Sussex County Municipal Utilities Authority, the North Hudson Sewerage Authority, and the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority. In addition, Mr. Beinfield has represented the liquidity banks in connection with the issuance by the State of New Jersey of commercial paper tax and revenue anticipation notes and has served as trustee’s counsel and bank counsel for Bank of Montreal, First Union National Bank, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, North Fork Bank, State Street Bank and Trust Company, Summit Bank, The Bank of New York Mellon, U.S. Bank, Wachovia Bank, Wells Fargo Bank and Wilmington Trust Company, in dozens of financings for New Jersey issuers. Mr. Beinfield has represented issuers in other states including Connecticut, Indiana, New Hampshire and New York and has represented underwriters in financings by issuers in Connecticut, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, New York and Oklahoma.
Mr. Beinfield has been on panels of meetings of the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the New Jersey Association of Environmental Authorities, the New Jersey Association of Counties, the New Jersey State League of Municipalities, the Government Finance Officers Association of New Jersey and the New Jersey Institute of Professional Development.
Mr. Beinfield is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the American College of Bond Counsel, the Government Finance Officers Association of New Jersey and the New Jersey Institute of Municipal Attorneys and is a member in good standing of the bar of the State of New Jersey and the bar of the State of New York.
National Association of Bond Lawyers
American College of Bond Counsel
New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys
Government Finance Officers Association of New Jersey
New Jersey Association of Environmental Authorities
New Jersey Bar Association
Brown University
A.B.
Vanderbilt University School of Law
Juris Doctor
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Robert Beinfield has a wealth of experience across a wide range of municipal financings in New Jersey. He is particularly adept acting for public issuers as bond and disclosure counsel.