Thomas Vandiver Email & Phone Number

With offices in St. Louis and Los Angeles, I provide legal counsel for a variety of real estate, corporate and public finance clients across the country. I have more than 34 years of experience structuring and implementing tax-exempt bond and other finance transactions. My practice includes public and municipal finance, banking, affordable housing, real estate law and corporate finance transactions. I have structured project financings involving energy tax credits, including photovoltaic/solar energy projects in which municipalities and school districts were the energy off takers. In the public finance area, I have served as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, counsel to financial institutions as private placement investors and lenders, issuer's and borrower's counsel and counsel to credit enhancers and trustees in hundreds of transactions involving billions of dollars of tax-exempt and taxable bonds, notes and other obligations, as well as other conventional financings.I regularly counsel clients in connection with complex derivative transactions, providing financings for several hundred affordable housing projects throughout the country, for state and local governments, health care systems, senior living and retirement facilities, colleges, universities and private secondary schools, cultural institutions, manufacturing facilities, sports facilities, hotels and many other facilities, including for tribal borrowers. Named one of the leading lawyers in California for affordable housing transactions, I represent many of the major banks and financial institutions that provide financing and tax credit equity financing for these projects, leading more than a hundred such projects in just the past three years. I regularly represents tax credit investors in Low Income Housing Tax Credit transactions and New Markets Tax Credit transactions. I have worked extensively on restructuring troubled financings, including restructuring of tax-exempt bonds.

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  Partner

  Dentons

  1992 - Present - Los Angeles/St. Louis

  Top 100 Lawyers in California - 2014; The Daily Journal Real EstatePublic FinanceEducation FinanceHealthcare FinanceCorporate Bond CounselAffordable HousingLow Income Housing Tax CreditsNew Markets Tax Credits