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| Public Finance Department
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The Public Finance Group of GSH has
collectively over 125 years of public finance experience
on a wide variety of public issuances. Its attorneys
are dedicated to representing public entities in all
phases of public finance. We represent issuers, underwriters,
credit providers, trustees, and private beneficiaries
in various types of tax-exempt and taxable financings.
We serve as bond, underwriters', tax, disclosure, credit
provider's, trustee's, and special counsel. Our experience
includes serving as counsel in transactions involving
transportation bonds, governmental bonds, qualified
hospital and health facilities bonds, qualified section
501(c)(3) bonds, qualified mortgage bonds, and other
activity bonds.
A few highlights regarding our practice include:
- GSH was ranked fourth out of all law firms for 2008 in Wisconsin and Illinois relative to the dollar volume of bond transactions handled according to The Bond Buyer.
- In 2008, GSH advised on over $9 billion in public finance transactions.
- In 2007, GSH was ranked amongst the Top 100 Bond Counsel Firms in the nation according to Bond Buyer's Municipal Bond Industry Rankings.
- GSH was ranked third in 2006 out of all law firms in Wisconsin relative to the dollar volume of bond transactions we handled.
- According to the Bond Buyer Daily Newspaper, in 2005, GSH (as Burris, Wright) was ranked number four amongst bond firms in the State of Illinois with over $1 billion of public finance transactions to its credit that year.
GSH is listed in The Bond Buyer's Municipal Marketplace (Red Book) in California, Illinois, Indiana, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Washington D.C., and Wisconsin. A sampling of GSH's public clients include: Illinois
Finance Authority, Chicago Transit Authority, City
of Chicago, State of Illinois, Chicago Board of Education,
Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, Metropolitan
Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Milwaukee
County, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District,
Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority,
Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee,
State of Wisconsin, the Southeast Wisconsin Professional
Baseball Park District, Wisconsin Center District,
Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority,
City of Milwaukee, State of Connecticut, Indiana Development
Finance Authority, Indianapolis Local Public Improvement
Bond Bank, Indianapolis Public School Multi-School
Building Corporation, the Ohio Southern State Community
College, and the State of Ohio.
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- Served as bond counsel in connection with $133,485,000 Dormitory Authority of the State of New York State Personal Income Tax Revenue Bonds (Education) Qualified School Construction Bonds.
- Recently served as bond counsel in connection with the City of Philadelphia’s $396,460,000 Water and Wastewater Revenue Refunding Bonds.
- Served as bond counsel in connection with $461,342,259 Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission Turnpike Subordinate Revenue Bonds and MLF-Enhanced Turnpike Subordinate Special Revenue Bonds
- Served as co-bond counsel in connection with the
State of Ohio's $375,000,000 Infrastructure Revenue
Bonds.
- Served as underwriters' counsel in connection
with $185,000,000 State of Wisconsin Transportation
Revenue Bonds transaction.
- Served as co-bond counsel and co-underwriters'
counsel in connection with numerous financings issued
by the Chicago Transit Authority.
- Served as underwriters' counsel in connection with
the 2008 issuance of $2,276,578,271 State of Connecticut,
Taxable General Obligation Bonds.
- Currently and have previously served as co-bond
counsel in connection with several City of Chicago
financings, including the issuance of Motor Fuel Tax
Revenue Bonds, General Obligation Bonds, and Wastewater
Transmission Revenue Bonds.
- Served as co-underwriters' counsel in connection
with the recent O'Hare International Airport transaction
financed through the City of Chicago, and have also
been assigned to work on the conversion of some of
the 2005 bonds that were credit enhanced through insurance.
- Provided co-bond counsel services in connection
with issuance of State of Illinois General Obligation
Bonds, and the Chicago Board of Education Unlimited
Tax General Obligation Refunding Bonds.
- Since 2002, provide bond counsel services to the
Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority
on numerous multi-family and single-family transactions.
- Provide bond counsel services to the Milwaukee Metropolitan
Sewerage District since 2001 regarding the issuance
of General Obligation Sewerage System Bonds and General
Obligation Sewerage System Promissory Notes.
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