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Our Tax-Exempt Finance Group is a coordinated, versatile group of experienced business counselors and advocates who understand and help to achieve the business objectives of all clients. In addition to serving as issuer's counsel, attorneys in our Tax-Exempt Finance Group have represented borrowers, underwriters and credit enhancers in municipal finance transactions, including issuances of general obligation bonds, tender notes, tax anticipation warrants, special facility revenue bonds, general obligation refunding bonds, limited tax bonds, unlimited tax bonds with a designated revenue source, and industrial revenue bonds. We have also represented the borrower in the first non-credit-enhanced charter school bond issue in the State of Illinois at an investment-grade level and have substantial knowledge about public-private transactions, built upon a range of experience with such projects.

For more information about our Tax-Exempt Finance Group, please contact:

Keith Sigale
312.201.3905
keith.sigale@goldbergkohn.com

Representative Matters

  • Worked on transactions for the benefit of municipal, corporate and not-for-profit borrowers, including, among others, the city of Chicago, the Chicago Park District, the state of Illinois, Waste Management Inc., the United Way of Chicago, Commonwealth Edison and the Chinese American Service League.
  • Represented numerous underwriters, including LaSalle Capital Markets, Salomon Smith Barney Inc., Merrill Lynch Business Financial Services Inc. and Bank One, N.A.
  • Serve as issuer's counsel in numerous multi-million dollar transactions for the Illinois Finance Authority.
  • Structured and negotiated the first charter school bond issue in the state of Illinois and the first offering of investment grade charter school bonds involving multiple campuses in the country.
  • Counseled Sears, Roebuck & Co. with respect to various tax issues arising out of the movement of its headquarters to the bond-financed Hoffman Estates TIF district.
  • Assisted litigators in structuring a settlement and buyout of a group of bond-financed hospitals in the Southeast.
  • Conducted tax and bond-related due diligence on two deals involving acquisitions of bond-financed health care facilities.
  • Served as underwriters' counsel for the McCormick Place Expansion Project Bonds and for Chicago O'Hare's International Airport Special Facility Variable Rate Demand Bonds.
  • Provided tax counsel on transactions involving acquisitions of bond-financed healthcare facilities.

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