Heather White focuses on public finance and project finance. She represents issuers, underwriters and borrowers in a wide variety of public finance transactions and has been involved in financings for cities, counties, school districts, airport authorities, transportation authorities and 501(c)3 organizations. She also has been involved in project financings with a tax-exempt bond component.
I have served as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter’s counsel on a transactions for a wide variety of issuers and borrowers including cities, counties, school districts, airport authorities, port authorities, transportation authorities, privately and publicly held for profit entities and 501(c)3 nonprofits. I have been involved with a wide variety of infrastructure projects and have drafted documentation and offering documents for complex transactions and credits. Representative clients include the Airport Commission of the City and County of San Francisco, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Western University of Health Sciences, the State of California, and a number of underwriting firms. I also taught legal writing at the University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law in 2011.
Issuers, borrowers and underwriters will continue to need sound legal counsel to explore creative new financing options and to navigate increasing scrutiny and regulation of the municipal securities industry by the SEC and the IRS.
Harvard University, J.D., cum laude
University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., summa cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa)
California
Hawaii
Heather White is a member of the American Bar Association and the National Association of Bond Lawyers.
