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The following are links to some of the more active firms
in the California Public Finance markets.
Hawkins, Delafield & Wood
Since 1854, Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP has provided effective and innovative legal services tailored to meet the changing and evolving needs of clients. For more than a century, the firm has been nationally recognized for its public finance expertise and has been consistently ranked among the top law firms in the nation in its public finance practice. The firm is a recognized leader in the practice of public finance law. The firm's clients include state and local governments, conduit borrowers, investment banks, credit enhancers, trustees, and other public finance participants. The firm has over 100 attorneys specializing in public finance and related real estate, tax, litigation, and securities matters, many of whom are prominent leaders in their areas of expertise. The firm also provides a variety of post-issuance services such as arbitrage rebate calculations and assistance with continuing disclosure. The firm has offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento, CA, New York, NY, Washington D.C., Newark, NJ, and Hartford, CT.
Contact: Sean Tierney, Esq.
Tel: (415) 486-4201
Fax: (415) 397-1513
stierney@hawkins.com
Jones Hall, A Professional Law Corporation, was founded in 1978, and has 14 attorneys, 11 of whom are partners. The firm specializes exclusively in the area of municipal finance as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, disclosure counsel and special tax counsel. This specialization allows the firm to orient its practice to the peculiar requirements of public finance, without the need to suit other, unrelated practice areas. During the past fifteen years, more local California agencies have used Jones Hall as bond counsel on their long-term financings than any other law firm, based upon statistics compiled by the California Debt Investment and Advisory Commission.
Contact: Stephen Mellikian, Esq.
Tel: (415) 391-5780
Fax: (415) 391-5784
smelikian@joneshall.com
Lofton & Jennings
Lofton & Jennings is a San Francisco based firm specializing in municipal finance transactions, with an emphasis on disclosure matters. The firm has been consistently ranked among the top firms nationally by number of transactions for disclosure counsel or underwriter's counsel services. The firm also maintains an active practice as bond counsel and as counsel to remarketing agents and credit facility providers. Lofton & Jennings is the preeminent minority-owned municipal finance firm in the State of California.
Contact: William Lofton, Esq.
Tel: (415) 772-1900
Fax: (415) 772-1909
blofton@loftonjennings.com
Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson
For more than 25 years, the Meyers Nave firm has specialized in providing legal services to California public agencies. It has recently established a public finance practice which includes 3 senior bond attorneys, two associates and a paralegal. Perry Israel, a Section 103 tax attorney of national prominence, provides services regarding federal tax aspects of relevant transactions. The firm's attorneys have served as bond counsel on numerous 501(c)(3) transactions, with particular emphasis on education, health care, and retirement housing. The firm has offices in Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, and Los Angeles.
Contact: Stephen Taber,Esq.
Tel: (415) 677-3355
Fax: (41510) 421-3767
staber@meyersnave.comSam Sperry,Esq.
Tel: (510) 808-2000
Fax: (510) 444-1108
ssperry@meyersnave.com
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is the leading public finance law firm in California. For example, it serves as bond counsel for more than twice the number and seven times the dollar amount of California municipal bonds as any other firm. Orrick provides bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriters' counsel and bank counsel services on all types of municipal obligations, as well as post-issuance services in connection with arbitrage rebate compliance, continuing disclosure, IRS audits, SEC inquiries and various kinds of workouts. Its California offices are located in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento.
Contact: Lee Sutherlnd, Public Finance Marketing Manager
Tel: (415) 773-5480
Fax: (415)773-5759
lsutherland@orrick.com
Quint & Thimmig LLP is a nationally-recognized public finance firm located in San Francisco . Over the last ten years, the firm has served as bond counsel for over a thousand long term financings for California governmental agencies, including twenty-four different transactions for which the Association of Bay Area Governments or the ABAG Finance Authority for Nonprofit Corporations acted as the issuer of the debt obligations. Quint & Thimmig LLP has extensive experience in serving as bond counsel for certificates of participation, bond and note financings for governmental facilities and public infrastructure (including water, wastewater and public utility improvements), educational facilities, health care facilities, multifamily housing projects, and redevelopment projects as well as assessment and Mello-Roos financings. The firm is well known for the diligence, expertise and creativity that it brings to each financing in which it participates. Unlike other firms, the firm does not employ associate or junior attorneys, so that every financing in which it participates is fully managed and documented by an experienced, highly skilled senior attorney with full responsibility for all aspects of the firm's services.
Contact: Brian D Quint, Esq.
Tel: (415) 765-1550
Fax: (415) 765-1555
bquint@qtllp.comPaul J. Thimmig, Esq.
Tel: (415) 765-1550
Fax: (415) 765-1555
pthimmig@qtllp.com
Note: The Association of Bay Area Governments does not
necessarily endorse the use of any of these resources.