Susan Pease Langford

Biography

Susan Pease Langford has experience as the director of the City of Atlanta’s 1996 Mayor’s Office of Olympic Coordination and as head of the City of Atlanta’s Law Department. This experience provides a strong background for her work with large issuers and borrowers. Her clients include colleges and universities, charter schools, cities, counties, airports, development authorities, investment banks, credit enhancers, developers, housing finance authorities, and others. Ms. Langford was previously a long time partner at Peck, Shaffer & Williams LLP prior to joining Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan.

Ms. Langford serves as bond, underwriter’s, disclosure, borrower’s and bank counsel in taxable and tax-exempt bond financing; provides advice and counsel to clients and other parties to the transactions on the structure, tax issues, policies and requirements relevant to individual transaction; drafts transactional documents, including indentures, bond resolutions, official statements, private placement memorandum, letter of credit and reimbursement agreements, financing agreements, bond purchase agreements, land use restriction agreements, tax regulatory agreements and other documents as required for the financing; gives legal opinions as appropriate to the financing.

Ms. Langford’s public finance practice includes financings for colleges and universities, states, cities, counties, airports, and single and multifamily housing projects. Her experience with colleges includes work on smaller student housing facilities for two year schools and the full replacement of on campus beds for a state land grant university. Ms. Langford’s college and university dining hall and bookstore financings and work financing additions to existing structures have required careful tax analysis and close work with her tax partners to ensure the proper documentation of the use of the facilities and the proper treatment of all bond proceeds in order to meet all required rules and regulations applicable to tax-exempt financings.

Ms. Langford’s airport experience includes work as underwriter’s counsel on the 2011 Bond Buyer Deal of the Year. She has also worked with projects completed under special urban redevelopment statutes and commercial paper statutes that provide for publically financed projects.

In the area of multifamily projects, in addition to traditional bond financed housing projects, Ms. Langford has worked on direct purchase bond financings and direct purchase bond financings collateralized by funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and HUD insured direct loans to borrowers for multifamily projects. She has worked with borrowers rescuing troubled housing projects in their attempts to restructure the debt and preserve the housing and developers creating a new vision for lagging communities.

Representative Transactions

• $846,485,000 City of Atlanta Airport Passenger Facility Charge and Subordinate Lien General Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2014A (NON-AMT) and Airport General Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2014B (NON-AMT) and Series 2014C (AMT), Co-Underwriters’ Counsel
• $12,210,000 City of Compton, California, 2014-15 Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes, Bond Counsel
• $178,735,000 City of Atlanta, Georgia, Water and Wastewater Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2013A-1, Underwriter’s Counsel
• $11,940,000 Urban Residential Finance Authority of the City of Atlanta, Georgia, Multifamily Housing Revenue Bonds (Trestletree Village Apartments, Series 2013A and B, Bond Counsel
• $8,665,000 Amana Academy, Georgia, Charter School Revenue Bonds Series 2013, Bond and Disclosure Counsel
• $17,505,000 Development Authority of Richmond County Refunding Revenue Bonds (ASU Jaguar Student Housing I, LLC Project), Series 2012, Bond Counsel
• $440,390,000 City of Atlanta, Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport, General Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2011A, Underwriter’s Counsel
• $66,000,000 Georgia Housing Finance Authority, Single Family Mortgage Bonds, 2011 Series A and 2009 Series C, Subseries C-3, Bond Counsel
• $24,040,000 Albany Dougherty Payroll Development Authority Revenue Bonds (Darton College Projects), Series 2010, Bond Counsel
• $45,520,000 Albany-Dougherty Inner City Authority Revenue Bonds (Albany State University Projects), Series 2010 Bonds (the “Series 2010 Bonds”), Borrower’s Counsel
• $300,350,000 City of Chicago, Aggregate principal amount of General Obligation Bonds, Project and Refunding and $38,925,000 aggregate principal amount of General Obligation Bonds, Taxable, Underwriter’s Counsel
• $5,350,000 Liberty County (Georgia) General Obligation Sales Tax Bonds, Bond and Underwriter’s Counsel
• $51,020,000 Jefferson County General Obligation Warrants, Underwriter’s Counsel
• $307,410,000 City of Dallas, Texas, Waterworks and Sewer System Revenue Refunding and Improvement Bonds, Underwriter’s Counsel

Ms. Langford is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, member and past president of the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys, and member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers. She is Chair, Board of Trustees, of the First Congregational Church, UCC, and a Board Member for the Center for Puppetry Arts.

She earned her J.D. at Emory University School of Law and a B.A., Math and Political Science, from Mount Holyoke College. Ms. Langford is admitted to practice in the State of Georgia.

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

• Emory University School of Law, J.D.
• Mount Holyoke College, B.A., Math and Political Science

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

In the News

• 2/19/2015 - Susan Pease Langford Executive Leadership Council Moderator
• 2/17/2014 - GSH Welcomes Susan Pease Langford