Government and Public Finance

Decades of Collaborative Legal Expertise

For over 40 years, our lawyers have applied a multi-disciplinary approach to addressing client needs.  Whether working collaboratively internally or with other law firms, this approach has provided our clients who have diverse legal needs, the benefit of our collective experience across practice areas.

Expertise in Federal, State, and Local Law

Our attorneys have been called upon to address issues or questions related to federal statutes and regulations, state law and local ordinances including:

The Internal Revenue Code and Regulations, The Virginia Constitution, The Virginia Freedom of Information Act, The Virginia Public Procurement Act, The Virginia Public Finance Act, The Virginia Public-Private Partnership Act, Municipal charters, Municipal ordinances.

What we’ve done:

Airports, public utilities, governmental facilities, housing, health care facilities, universities, local schools.

Types of matters:

We have served as sole bond counsel, co-bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel and issuers’ counsel working on straight forward and complex financing transactions within and without the Commonwealth of Virginia.  Our engagements have included:

General obligation bonds, forward purchase obligations, interest rate swap transactions, auction rate and commercial paper financings, mortgage-backed pass-through securities, multi-family mortgage programs, variable interest rate financings, bond financings involving collateralized and uncollateralized letters of credit and other credit enhancements, bond financings insured by municipal bond insurers, bond financings involving syndications.

Our Leadership

The lead attorney, Nancy Griffin Chambliss, Co-Managing Partner of the Firm, has over 40 years of experience in government and public finance.