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Adam Gordon is a partner in Nixon Peabody’s Project Finance and Public Finance group. His practice concentrates on infrastructure, economic development, and project finance.
Adam serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriters’ counsel, and bank counsel on tax-exempt and taxable bond issuances. He has worked on private activity, nonprofit, housing, transportation, pooled lending, waste management, and public power financings, and has written and published articles on public finance topics.
I have significant experience representing industrial development agencies and local development corporations in New York State, including the New York City Economic Development Corporation. In my economic development practice, I draft and negotiate leases, loan agreements, mortgages, bond indentures, PILOT documentation, escrow agreements, guaranties, and offering documents in connection with tax benefit transactions and conduit financings. My knowledge of the New York State Industrial Development Agency statutory framework has allowed me to assist with the development and implementation of new programs while helping my clients find solutions. I have often served as bond counsel and underwriters’ counsel on financings undertaken by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York and the Empire State Development Corporation for New York State economic development programs.
Much of my practice is devoted to transportation finance. As bond counsel to the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, I draft and review financing documents and manage and execute complex transactions. These include new money issuances, refundings, direct purchases, and remarketings. I have also served as special disclosure counsel to MTA and have experience coordinating the preparation and dissemination of disclosure materials in accordance with federal securities laws. In addition, I serve as bond counsel to New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority and have served as underwriters’ counsel for securities issued by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
In my bank counsel practice, I often represent financial institutions issuing standby bond purchase agreements to support tax-exempt bonds in various sectors. I also have experience negotiating credit facilities and representing lenders in the direct purchase of privately placed debt.
I have worked on several high profile project financings in the capacity of bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel and borrowers’ counsel.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought challenges that require creative and pragmatic solutions for our clients. I am closely following legislative efforts to provide new and expanded financing tools for state and local governments to help our clients navigate the pandemic. In addition, the pandemic has caused issuers of municipal securities to reevaluate disclosure practices, and I am actively monitoring guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
I am also following developments with respect to the expected phase-out of LIBOR, which will impact trillions of dollars in outstanding loans and financial contracts.
New York City Project Finance & Public Finance senior counsel Ken Lind is profiled in this article, following The Bond Buyer’s announcement naming him as a member of the publication’s 2024 Hall of Fame class. The article highlights Ken’s 45-year career working on some of the country’s largest projects and developments as well as his local impact as a public servant. New York City partner and PBFN practice group leader Virginia Wong and partner Adam Gordon are also quoted on Ken’s reputation in the industry and at NP.
This article, which covers the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) approving a contract with Next Wave Rhode Island Partners to design and build a new downtown Providence transit center, mentions NP for serving as RIPTA’s legal counsel. The NP team includes Providence partner and Construction & Real Estate Litigation practice leader Jeff Brenner, New York City Project Finance & Public Finance partners Roddy Devlin and Adam Gordon, New York City PBFN senior counsel Ken Lind, and Rochester Affordable Housing & Real Estate senior counsel Bruce Baker.
This article covers the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority of New York’s plan to sell $300 million of tax-exempt green bonds, which will be used to finance transit and commuter projects in New York City. The article mentions NP for serving as bond counsel in the sale. The NP team includes New York City partners Liz Columbo and Adam Gordon, Washington, DC partner Carla Young, New York City senior counsel Ken Lind, and New York City associates Paul Dewey, Georgia Sackey, and Katharine Stack, all of the Project Finance & Public Finance practice.
This article covers client Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority’s $765 million Payroll Mobility Tax Senior Lien Refunding Green Bonds, which were priced Thursday in the primary market. The NP team serving as bond counsel on this deal includes New York City partners Ken Lind, Liz Columbo, and Adam Gordon; Washington, DC partner Carla Young; New York City counsel Abigail Olsen; and New York City associates Kate Stack, Paul Dewey, and Georgia Sackey, all of the Project Finance & Public Finance practice.
New York City Project Finance & Public Finance partner Adam Gordon is profiled as one of the publication’s “2022 Rising Stars,” recognizing the next generation of municipal finance professionals. The article highlights Adam’s work as bond counsel for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, and quotes New York City Project Finance & Public Finance partner Ken Lind on Adam’s success.
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New York University School of Law, J.D., cum laude; Notes and Comments Editor, New York Law School Law Review, 2010–2011
Hamilton College, B.A., Government, cum laude
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