James T. Giel Named Chair of the Municipal Bond Department
(Phoenix, AZ) March 1, 2019 – Gust Rosenfeld, P.L.C. is pleased to announce that James T. Giel was named Chair of the Municipal Bond Department of the firm’s 20 member Public Law Section. The firm’s bond department was ranked #1 in Arizona by paramount for 2018 in the year-end bond counsel rankings recently issued by The Bond Buyer.
“Jim provides the leadership and guidance to maintain the strength and reputation that Gust Rosenfeld has built within the public finance community,” said Tom Chauncey, a member of the Executive Committee of the firm. “The firm has been representing Arizona municipalities, counties, school districts, community facilities districts, and other entities in public financing for nearly 100 years. With Jim’s leadership and experience, we look to continue that tradition of helping Arizona communities well into the future.”
James T. Giel (“Jim”) has a broad range of experience in public finance. Over the past 26 years, he has represented school districts, community facilities districts, fire districts, and other special districts as bond counsel, issuer’s counsel, special district counsel, borrower’s counsel, and underwriter’s counsel. He has been counsel on numerous transactions involving general obligation bonds, assessment bonds, revenue bonds, lease financings, and formation and consolidation elections.
Jim also has experience in the use of special districts as a development financing tool and is integral to the firm’s community facilities district practice, having represented some of the largest CFDs in Arizona. He has served as election counsel to many school districts and fire districts for bond, override, lease, and land sale elections. Jim has experience with tax credit financings, such as Build America Bonds, Qualified School Construction Bonds, Qualified Zone Academy Bonds, New Clean Renewable Energy Bonds, and Qualified Energy Conservation Bonds.
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