ESG Bonds
Supporting Issuers that Make an Impact
Mintz is instrumental in supporting clients involved in the issuance of all types of Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) bonds, including those designated as green, social, sustainability, and climate bond certified. Our team has been at the forefront of the ESG municipal bond movement.
Representative ESG-Bond “Firsts”
- Bond counsel and disclosure counsel on the first green bond in Massachusetts, issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 2014
- Bond counsel on the Massachusetts School Building Authority’s Senior Dedicated Sales Tax Bonds (Social Bonds), the first social bond issued in Massachusetts and the largest social bond issued in 2020
- Bond counsel on the first tax-exempt sustainability bonds issued in the United States, which the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority issued in 2017
- Bond counsel and program counsel to the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust on its first issue of green bonds in 2015 and its first issue of sustainability bonds in 2021
- Bond counsel to the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency (MassHousing) on its first issue of sustainability bonds in 2019
- Underwriters’ counsel on MassHousing’s first issue of social bonds in 2020
- Bond counsel to the Boston Water and Sewer Commission on its first issue of green bonds in 2021
- Issuer’s counsel on American Student Assistance’s first issue of social bonds in 2021
- Underwriters’ counsel on the Colorado Housing and Finance Agency’s first multifamily social bond issue in 2021
Many of our clients, issuers and underwriters alike, recognize that an ESG designation not only serves to publicize and highlight the positive social aspects of the projects being financed and refinanced but that it may also increase market demand for such bonds.
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