Cases
Experience: Public finance: Participated in hundreds of municipal financings as bond counsel, underwriters' or disclosure counsel, borrower's counsel, lender's counsel, credit enhancer's or liquidity provider's counsel
trustee's counsel in many states
localities.
Acted as bond counsel on each appropriation-backed financing undertaken by DBF for the State of Florida Department of Management Services' facilities pool revenue bond program since the inception of the program in 1986.
Served as bond counsel to the Florida Housing Finance Corporation
its predecessor, Florida Housing Finance Agency, on more than 70 bond issues since 1992.
Transportation finance: Acts as bond counsel
special counsel to All Aboard Florida for its tax-exempt financing of certain costs attributable to its continued development of Brightline passenger train service from Miami to Orl
o.
Served on the legal team that represented MAT Concessionaire, LLC
its sponsors on Meridiam Infrastructure Fund
Bouygues Travaux Publics, S.A.'s involvement in the Port of Miami Tunnel project, one of the first greenfield public-private partnerships in the United States.
Served on the legal team that represented I-4 Mobility Partners in the I-4 Ultimate Project to rebuild
improve portions of I-4 in central Florida.
Acted as special Florida counsel to the lenders that financed the development of the I-4/Lee Roy Selmon Expressway Connector Interchange project in Hillsborough County, Florida.
Served as bond counsel to Miami-Dade County Expressway Authority (MDX) from 1996 through 2010. Served as general counsel to MDX from 1996 through 2007.
Served as bond counsel to the Florida Turnpike Revenue Bond program of the Florida Division of Bond Finance (DBF) since 1988.
Served as bond counsel to DBF on financings for transportation right-of-way acquisition
bridge construction.
Acted as co-general counsel to the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority
acted as co-general counsel to its predecessor, the Tri-County Commuter Rail Authority (a.k.a Tri-Rail).
Acted as one of the primary bond counsels for Miami-Dade County, traditionally one of the largest municipal bond issuers in Florida
in this capacity has h
led numerous financings for the Miami-Dade Aviation Department.
Local government finance: Served as bond counsel for the cities of Ormond Beach, Davie, Sunny Isles Beach
Hollywood.
Served as bond counsel to Orange County Housing Finance Authority in Orange County, Florida.
Community redevelopment
tax increment financing: Served as bond counsel on tax increment financings by the city of Hollywood, Florida Community Redevelopment Agency
the City of Ormond Beach, Florida Redevelopment Agency.
501(c)(3) Transactions: Served as counsel on tax-exempt financings to Miami Jewish Health Systems, Inc., Greater Miami Jewish Federation, a number of Jewish Community Centers
private schools.
