Public Finance
- Serves as bond and disclosure counsel to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which included assisting with the issuance of the first ever green bond in the nation by a state entity. We also advised the Commonwealth in establishing a first in the nation unemployment trust bond program.
- Serves as bond and/or borrower counsel to numerous higher education institutions including Boston University, the College of the Holy Cross, Merrimack College, and Johnson & Wales University with respect to new money and refunding bonds issued by conduit issuers.
- Served as underwriter’s counsel to Morgan Stanley for a New York State Housing Finance Agency affordable housing revenue bonds transaction.
- Serves as bond and disclosure counsel to the Maine Turnpike Authority since 1997. We worked with the Authority to address proposed legislation that would eliminate the existence of the Authority. On new bond issues, we work with the Authority to ensure there is proper authorization for the bonds and complete tax analysis for the expenditures.
- Served as purchaser’s counsel on a first of its kind transaction in the municipal bond space: the new structure was financed with tax-exempt bonds and involved an off-balance sheet transaction whereby medical office buildings were sold to a nonprofit and leased back to a hospital system. Additionally, we facilitated creation of a ground lease structure with a lease back to the hospital system and a debt guaranty.
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Mintz served as bond counsel, finance counsel, and program counsel on the issuance of four tranches of revenue bonds in June 2024 by the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, which totaled more than $475 million.
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A cross-practice Mintz team, led by several Public Finance Members, assisted Mass General Brigham in a $460 million publicly offered tax-exempt bond financing. The transaction marked the not-for-profit, integrated health care system’s return to the public debt market after nearly four years.
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Mintz acted as bond counsel to the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency for a $429 million bond issue for Wellforce Inc. that consolidated three obligated groups into one.
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Mintz serves as bond counsel to the New York State Housing Finance Agency in connection with multiyear, multimillion-dollar development projects in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Agency bonds funded affordable housing at the historic 19th century Domino Sugar plant in Brooklyn.
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Mintz has served as bond counsel to MassHousing for all their multifamily programs for over 30 years. In 2017, Mintz attorneys advised the agency on 25 transactions totaling more than $750 million.
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Mintz has a decades-long bond counsel relationship with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Mintz served as bond counsel and disclosure counsel on an $815 million new money and refunding transaction and a $1.5 billion note transaction for the state.
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Mintz quickly closed one of Partners HealthCare’s largest-ever borrowings, totaling over $1 billion, ahead of the new federal tax bill’s effective date. The borrowing involved tax-exempt bonds issued simultaneously in MA and NH.
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Mintz served as co-bond counsel for the Brooklyn Arena Local Development Corporation in connection with the construction financing and refinancing of the Barclays Center. Mintz
Public Finance and Tax attorneys worked on the “Payments in Lieu of Taxes” (PILOT) bond issues.
Public Finance and Tax attorneys worked on the “Payments in Lieu of Taxes” (PILOT) bond issues.
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Mintz is advising a National Hockey League (NHL) team on deal structures to finance the construction of a proposed new arena that would involve about $400 million in public funding. Mintz counsels the organization on public finance / bond transactions, insurance law, and tribal law.
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Mintz serves as bond counsel to the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank. Mintz helped the bank design and implement a new financing structure for the Vermont State Colleges System by advising on disclosure statements, preparing audits for the IRS and addressing tax issues.