Preti Flaherty’s public finance group provides legal services for a wide variety of public finance transactions and participants. Our clients include general government entities, quasi-governmental entities, conduit borrowers, including 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations and manufacturing enterprises, underwriters and letter of credit banks. Our services encompass all aspects of public finance law including state and municipal law, securities law and federal income tax law. We also provide advice in connection with ongoing legal compliance related to public finance transactions. Our public finance attorneys have guided clients through transactions involving:
- A wide range of general obligation, nonprofit and revenue bonds
- Solid waste disposal bonds
- Small issue manufacturing bonds
- Housing bonds
- Tax-exempt lease transactions
- Capital Fund Financing Program (HUD)
- Tax and grant anticipation notes and municipal bonds
- Pool loans
- Bond insurance
- Letters of credit
- Liquidity facilities
- Tax increment financing
- Interest rate swaps
- Municipal investment pool
A top-ranked public finance legal team
Preti Flaherty has been ranked as the number one underwriter’s counsel firm in both Maine and New Hampshire and among the top 100 underwriter’s counsel firms nationally. We are also listed in the Bond Buyer’s Municipal Marketplace directory and are listed as approved bond counsel by Maine Municipal Bond Bank, the New Hampshire Municipal Bond Bank and the United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development. Our public entity clients include: University of Maine System, Maine Turnpike Authority, Kennebec County, Concord Housing Authority, Laconia Housing and Redevelopment Authority, and municipalities across Maine and New Hampshire. Our underwriter clients include Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities. Bank clients include KeyBank National Association and RBS Citizens National Association.
