Hogan & Hartson’s public finance practice was established when a group of prominent and experienced lawyers joined the firm to open the Denver office in the early 1990s. Today, nationally recognized public finance lawyers are resident in many of the firm’s offices throughout the United States and offer a comprehensive array of legal services to state and local governments, airports, utilities, housing authorities, health care providers, higher education institutions, corporations, and other entities that issue taxable or tax-exempt debt. Clients also include investment banking firms, and commercial and credit banks.

Our lawyers have participated in a wide variety of significant public projects and programs ranging from international airports and major sports arenas to extensive redevelopment projects, educational facilities at top-ranked universities, public/private partnerships, highway systems, national student loan programs, and leading health care institutions. We have participated in the issuance of billions of dollars of taxable and tax-exempt obligations serving as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, special tax counsel, issuer’s counsel, special counsel for disclosure matters, borrower’s counsel, developer’s counsel, swap counsel and trustee’s counsel.

Our focus is on large-scale financial projects and programs that require a combination of the various legal skills represented within the group. Critical components of the practice, complemented by the extensive resources of an international firm, set our public finance practice apart from other firms. Our ability to handle a wide variety of transactions is enhanced by lawyers in other practice areas with considerable experience in tax, securities, aviation, bankruptcy, energy, education, health care, environmental, litigation, sports, and real estate law. This pool of talent and experience supports complex financings throughout the United States and is fully available to the firm’s clients.

We pride ourselves on our ability to work with clients on an ongoing basis, structuring and planning specific transactions, as well as developing and implementing overall plans of finance responsive to the client’s specific needs and long-term goals.