Representative Experience
Tax-exempt lease and installment financing for equipment, improvements and real property

Traditional tax-exempt financing, such as general obligation, special assessment, tax increment and revenue bond financing

Private activity bond financing and creative capital financing, such as tax-exempt conduit leasing for manufacturing and processing facilities and for 501(c)(3) entities, 63-20 not-for-profit corporation financing and privatization

Federal leasing of equipment and energy retrofit projects, Qualified Zone Academy Bonds, asset and revenue supported taxable financing

Prior Experience
Served 12 years as project coordinator for the continuing update of the "Fifty-State Survey on Governmental Leasing," and surveys of federal tax law and federal securities law affecting governmental leasing published by the Association for Governmental Leasing & Finance

Representative Clients
Key Government Finance, Inc., Oregon School Boards Association FlexFund Financing Program, McLiney and Company

Publications and Presentations
Original author, “Governmental Leasing: A Fifty-State Survey of Legislation and Case Law,” Association for Governmental Leasing & Finance

Frequent speaker at seminars on the subject of public finance on the national, state and local levels

Memberships and Activities
Association for Governmental Leasing & Finance

National Association of Bond Lawyers

American Bar Association

Education
J.D., with distinction, University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law

Editor-in-Chief, The Urban Lawyer, the ABA's National Quarterly on Local Government Law

B.A. in Political Science, University of Chicago