Practice Expertise

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Public Finance
  • Colleges and Universities
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Areas of Practice

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Colleges and Universities
  • Public Finance
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Profile

Chris’s practice focuses on municipal bond finance, with emphasis in the areas of federal securities and tax law as well as state and local government law.

His representations include serving as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and issuer’s counsel to numerous state, regional and local government entities as well as educational, senior living, cultural and other 501(c)(3) nonprofit entities. He has also represented financial and investment banking institutions as lender’s counsel and underwriter’s counsel for public finance transactions. During the course of providing such representations for almost 30 years, Chris has gained extensive experience with a broad array of financing structures and techniques and a variety of security structures, including not only traditional general obligation, utility revenue, lease revenue and other “subject-to-appropriation” financings but also special assessment, tax increment and other project-based financings.

Relevant Experience

  • Assisted issuers in financing broad array of projects, including water and wastewater facilities, schools, universities, court facilities, parking facilities, public buildings and senior living communities.
  • Served in bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel roles on community development authority financings to provide public infrastructure in support of residential, commercial and retail developments.
  • Represented multi-jurisdictional authorities financing various public facilities, such as utility systems, convention centers and regional jails.
  • Worked on public/private financings to facilitate construction of school facilities, transportation improvements, and an outdoor arena, hotel and conference center.
  • Assisted 501(c)(3) nonprofit entities navigate taxable/tax-exempt forward refunding structures, as well as transition from LIBOR-based loans to an alternative variable rate index.
  • Served as bond counsel on the first Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan closed in Virginia.
  • Worked with issuers as well as underwriters on implementing newer bond structures, such as “Build America Bonds,” qualified school construction bonds, and recovery zone economic development bonds.
  • Represented numerous issuers in financings through the various programs administered by the Virginia Resources Authority and the Virginia Public School Authority.

Bar Admissions

  • Virginia

Education
BA, University of Virginia, History and Classics, Echols Scholar, 1988

Areas of Practice

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Colleges and Universities
  • Public Finance

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
  • Assisted issuers in financing broad array of projects, including water and wastewater facilities, schools, universities, court facilities, parking facilities, public buildings and hospitals.
  • Served as bond counsel and underwriter's counsel on community development authority financings to provide public infrastructure in support of residential, commercial and retail developments.
  • Worked on multi-jurisdictional financings for various public facilities, such as utility systems, convention centers and regional jails.
  • Worked on public/private financings to facilitate construction of school facilities, transportation improvements, outdoor arena, hotel and conference center.
  • Represented numerous issuers in financings through the various programs administered by the Virginia Resources Authority and the Virginia Public School Authority.
  • Worked with issuers as well as underwriters on implementing newer bond structures, such as "Build America Bonds," qualified school construction bonds, and recovery zone economic development bonds.


Professional Associations
  • Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
  • Member, Virginia Local Government Attorneys Association
  • Member, Bond Club of Virginia
  • Member, Virginia Bar Association
  • Co-Chair, Virginia Bar Association-Young Lawyers Division Central Virginia Pro Bono Hotline
  • Member, City of Richmond Bar Association

Professional Activities and Experience
  • Listed in Best Lawyers in America for Public Finance Law, 2007-2018. A description of the selection methodology can be found on Best Lawyers’ webpage.
  • Listed in Virginia Super Lawyers for Bonds/Government Finance, 2010-2015. A description of the selection methodology can be found on Super Lawyers’ webpage.


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