Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP offers exceptional legal services and sophisticated counsel to governmental agencies, financial institutions, and nonprofit organizations in finance and project development transactions. Founded in New York City in 1854, the firm now has 10 offices around the country. Extraordinary client service has been a hallmark of Hawkins since its founding.
The firm has been a nationally recognized public finance and public contracts leader, without interruption, since those transactions first began, more than 100 years ago.Hawkins has served as bond counsel or underwriters’ counsel in connection with more than $1 trillion of public finance transactions.
The firm’s practice encompasses bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel, borrower’s counsel, disclosure counsel, special tax counsel and bank counsel services, as well as legal services related to alternative project delivery, project finance and public-private partnerships, and securitization transactions.
Hawkins has a rich history and deep ties to the development of, and financing techniques for, some of the most significant and recognizable cultural, economic development, education, healthcare, housing, power and renewable energy, public buildings, solid waste, transportation, and infrastructure projects and programs in the United States.
Hawkins lawyers recognize and value the public purpose underlying its transactional practice. The firm’s lawyers have deep sector-specific experience and a broad range of public finance clients fosters innovative problem-solving across all sectors of the industry.
