Partner
CurrentMy experience includes leading the legal team that represented the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) in the closing of the one of the largest public-private partnership tax credit bond deals in U.S. history. The transaction, funded in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, provides approximately $400 million in initial public and private funding for the modernization of more than 20,000 public housing units and an additional $65 million to $75 million each year in federal subsidies for ongoing operations. In addition, I also led the legal team that represented the Puerto Rico Public Housing Administration in closing the largest Low Income Housing Tax Credit project ever done in the history of the tax credit program: $235 million in tax credit equity, combined with $485 million in tax-exempt bonds, to finance the modernization of 4,100 housing units.I served as a member of the HOPE VI Work Group, established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to advise HUD on the development of revised Total Development Cost Guidelines and the Cost Control and Safe Harbor Standards for Rental Mixed-Finance Development. I was also a member of the advisory team that assisted in the preparation of HUD's Mixed-Finance Guidebook.I participate in Ballard Spahr's pro bono program. Two of the pro bono teams I directed won Ballard's annual outstanding pro bono team award. One team represented the Franciscan Sisters of Baltimore in the conversion of their 100-year-old motherhouse and orphanage into a mixed-use housing facility, including a convent, an affordable rental facility, and homes for families with foster children. The other project involved more than 20 professionals providing emergency legal services to the Housing Authority of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
