Public Finance

Curls Bartling offers services as bond counsel, co-bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriters' counsel in both tax-exempt and taxable municipal financings.

512545391-highresWe have significant experience with a broad range of public financings (including private placements, competitive and negotiated sales), involving the issuance of:

  • commercial paper
  • general obligation bonds
  • lease revenue bonds
  • multifamily housing mortgage revenue bonds
  • revenue bonds
  • tax allocation bonds
  • tax and revenue anticipation notes

We have participated in a number of financings that have provided funding for a variety of projects, including for:

  • generation and transmission of power and renewable energy
  • provision of water and wastewater services
  • transportation
  • construction of general infrastructure and capital projects
  • affordable housing
  • acquisition or rehabilitation of real property

Representative Engagements:

Water and Sewer.

  • Served as Co-Bond Counsel for East Bay Municipal Utility District in its issuance of $82,150,000 Wastewater System Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2014A and $2,505,000 Wastewater System Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2014B (Federally Taxable).
  • Served as Co-Bond Counsel for Metropolitan Water District of Southern California in its 2014 Remarketing of its $104,180,000 Water Revenue Refunding Bonds (SIFMA Index Mode) 2009 Series A-2.

Power Generation & Transmission.

  • Served as Co-Bond Counsel for Southern California Public Power Authority in its issuance of $151,880,000 Apex Power Project, Revenue Bonds, 2014 Series A (Tax-Exempt) and $166,980,000 Apex Power Project, Revenue Bonds, 2014 Series B (Federally Taxable).
  • Served as Co-Bond Counsel for the Public Utilities Commission of the City and County of San Francisco in its issuance of $331,585,000 San Francisco Wastewater Revenue Bonds, 2013 Series B.

Local Governmental Entities.

  • Served as Disclosure Counsel for the City of Oakland in connection with its issuance of $55,000,000 2014-15 Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes.
  • Served as Underwriters’ Counsel for Siebert Brandford Shank & Co., L.L.C. and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated in connection with the issuance by the Port Commission of the City and County of San Francisco of its $22,675,000 Revenue Bonds, Series 2014A (Tax-Exempt) and Series 2014B (Taxable).
  • Served as Underwriters’ Counsel for Barclays Capital Inc. and Raymond James & Associates, Inc. in connection with the issuance by the San Mateo County Joint Powers Financing Authority in its 2013 Refunding of its $40,065,000 Lease Revenue Bonds (Refunding and Capital Projects), 2012 Series A (Robert Sans Memorial Issue).
  • Served as Co-Disclosure Counsel for the State of California in connection with its 2011 issuance of $1,774,995,000 Tax-Exempt Various Purpose General Obligation Bonds and $205,000,000 Taxable Various Purpose General Obligation Bonds.

Capital Projects.

  • Served as Disclosure Counsel for Alameda County in connection with the issuance by the Alameda County Joint Powers Authority of its $287,380,000 Lease Revenue Bonds (Multiple Capital Projects), 2013 Series A.
  • Served as Underwriters’ Counsel for RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. in connection with the issuance by the State Public Works Board of the State of California of its $631,535,000 Lease Revenue Bonds, 2013 Series I (Various Capital Projects).
  • Served as Co-Bond Counsel for the California Statewide Communities Development Authority in its issuance of its $969,690,000 Kaiser Permanente Revenue Bonds, Series 2012 and $1,000,000,000 Kaiser Permanente Taxable Bonds, Series 2012.

Housing & Redevelopment.

  • Served as Disclosure Counsel for the Oakland Redevelopment Successor Agency in its issuance of its $102,960,000 Subordinated Tax Allocation Refunding Bonds, Series 2013.
  • Served as Co-Bond Counsel for the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development in its issuance of its $30,000,000 Multifamily Housing Revenue Note (2013 Series D-1) and $4,000,000 Subordinate Multifamily Housing Revenue Bonds (2013 Series D-2) (2175 Market Street Apartments).

Transportation.

  • Served as Co-Underwriters’ Counsel for Siebert Brandford Shank & Co., L.L.C., J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC, Cabrera Capital Markets LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Jeffries LLC, and Loop Capital Markets, LLC in connection with the issuance by the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority of $29,390,000 Senior Special Facilities Revenue Bonds (Consolidated Rental Car Facility Project), Series 2014A (Tax-Exempt – Non-AMT) and $275,985,000 Senior Special Facilities Revenue Bonds (Consolidated Rental Car Facility Project), Series 2014B (Federally Taxable).
  • Served as Underwriters’ Counsel for J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC in connection with the issuance by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District of $240,000,000 General Obligation Bonds (Election of 2004), 2013 Series C.
  • Served as Co-Bond Counsel for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency in its issuance of up to $100,000,000 Commercial Paper Notes, Series A-1 (Tax-Exempt) and Series A-2 (Taxable).