Public Finance

Our public finance team, which includes nationally recognized tax counsel, stands ready to serve as your minority-certified bond counsel, borrower’s counsel, bank counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriters’ counsel, or issuer’s counsel.

Our attorneys have experience advising clients on a variety of financing options, including tax-exempt, taxable, commercial lending, and derivative financial products.  We will help you develop a framework for identifying and implementing effective financing structures, including alternative and creative financing where appropriate, that conform to federal income tax, securities, and state finance laws.

We pride ourselves on staying ahead of our client’s timelines, ensuring that you will benefit from rapid responses to changing market conditions.

RESULTS

RK attorneys have served as :

• Bond Counsel for the City of Chicago in connection with the issuance of general obligation, water and sewer, and sales tax bonds.
• Remarketing Bank’s Counsel in connection with the remarketing of City of Chicago Second Lien Water Revenue Refunding Bonds.
• Bond Counsel for the City and County of San Francisco in connection with the issuance of low-income housing bonds.
• Bond Counsel for Chicago Public Schools.
• Issuer’s counsel for an Indian tribal government, including drafting tribal legislation and referenda and revising the governance documents for the tribe’s issuing authority.
• Bond counsel for conduit bond issuers in connection with the issuance of qualified 501(c)(3) bonds.
• Borrower’s counsel and post-issuance compliance counsel for several large healthcare systems, including two large Chicago-based systems.
• Borrower’s Counsel for a private school in connection with a multiple draw construction loan.

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