The Hinckley, Allen & Snyder Public Finance Group assists clients in navigating the complex tax-exempt bond financing process. Our team brings a blend of expertise, experience and creativity to help you achieve your financing goals in the most cost-effective manner possible. We pride ourselves on our ability to identify potential issues early on in the financing process and offer practical solutions.

Thought Leaders

Our public finance lawyers are seasoned veterans who are considered thought leaders in the tax-exempt bond market. We frequently speak and write on topics of interest, including presenting at the National Association of Bond Lawyers annual Bond Attorneys Workshop on topics ranging from tax due diligence and documentation, to interest rate swaps, to securities and bankruptcy law issues. The head of our public finance group, Steve Weyl, is the lead author of the treatise “Tax-Exempt Bonds: Considerations for College and University In-House Counsel,” published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys.

Our Services

We offer a full spectrum of public finance services, including:

  • Bond Counsel
  • Borrower Counsel
  • Underwriter Counsel
  • Commercial Bank Counsel
  • Issuing Authority Counsel
  • Purchaser Counsel
  • Corporate Trustee Counsel

For detailed descriptions of our service offerings, please click here.

Who We Serve

Our clients include all participants in the tax-exempt bond market. Although our clients are often located in the five-state area in which we maintain offices - Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and New Hampshire - our attorneys work nationally. We have recently represented participants in tax-exempt financings in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas and Vermont.

Our Experience

Below is a small sampling of the Public Finance Group’s recent engagements:

  • New Hampshire Higher Education Loan Corporation - We served as corporate financing counsel to New Hampshire’s student loan program corporation in the successful restructuring and refinancing of all of its $1.5 billion of frozen auction rate securities, despite the downgrading of certain of the refinancing notes (due to the downgrade of the federal government) three weeks prior to the closing of the final refinancing tranches.
  • Lehman Swap Counterparties - Our firm has represented a broad range of borrowers, from small charitable corporations to a major foreign banking corporation, in connection with their interest rate swaps following the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.
  • State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations - We served as bond counsel to the State of Rhode Island in connection with the issuance of debt to fund energy conservation projects at University of Rhode Island, Community College of Rhode Island and Department of Administration facilities.
  • Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corporation - Our firm served as bond counsel to the Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corporation in connection with the issuance of $6,450,000 of bonds to finance the construction of a 32,000 square foot health center in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
  • New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority - We serve as issuer’s counsel to the New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority, New Hampshire’s largest issuer of tax-exempt bonds.

Contact Us

To learn more about our Public Finance practice, please contact Steve Weyl at 603-545-6122 or sweyl@haslaw.com.