Public Finance

Wildman Harrold’s Public Finance Practice regularly represents state agencies and authorities, counties, cities, villages, towns, school districts, and other special purpose districts throughout the nation. We serve as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, issuer’s counsel, and conduit borrower’s counsel on numerous public finance transactions in several states. Our experience includes a broad range of projects financed with tax-exempt and taxable municipal debt for municipal and private borrowers, including infrastructure, utility, education, housing, and healthcare. Our attorneys have served as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel on a wide array of financings, including governmental revenue, alternate and general obligation bonds, industrial revenue bonds, qualified 501(c)(3) bonds, tax increment financing bonds, and special assessment bonds.

Our experience includes work relating to not only bond issues, but also intergovernmental cooperation, the use of home rule authority, creation and administration of tax increment finance districts and enterprise zones, real estate tax abatements, and sales tax rebates. When appropriate, we draw upon the specialized skills of our Real Estate and Tax Practice groups.

• Bond counsel to Proviso Township High School District 209, Cook County, Illinois in its issue of $39.5 million General Obligation Limited Tax School Bonds.
  
• Bond and Bank Cousel to the Illinois Finance Authority in its issue of $4.4 million Tax Exempt Revenue Bonds.
  
• Bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel on various bond issues of The County of DuPage, Illinois including its issue of $130.8 million Transportation Revenue Bonds
  
• Co-Bond counsel to Town of Cicero, Illinois in its issue of $31.8 million General Obligation Tax Increment Refunding Bonds.
  
• Bond Counsel on an $80 million refunding of a transportation revenue bond issue for the benefit of DuPage County.