Quateman LLP serves as counsel to issuers, underwriters and credit providers. The firm offers extensive corporate, securities and real estate expertise to complement the bond practice, which encompasses a wide variety of financings, including many water, power, airport, port, transportation, redevelopment and pollution control transactions.
Beginning in the early 1990s, the firm was accepted into the California State Treasurer’s pool of bond counsel. Since then we have worked on over 130 financings with progressively more responsibility. Today we are one of the most active law firms in the municipal bond marketplace, having worked on the issuance of billions of dollars of bonds. We have served as bond, disclosure, issuer's, special, underwriter's, trustee's and bank counsel in a wide variety of transactions, including new credits and bonds issued pursuant to new legislation. We have particular expertise advising airports and ports in public finance matters. The firm has dealt with bond structure, taxable/tax-exempt blending, crossover refinancing, forward delivery, fixed and variable rate offerings, redemption provisions, refunding, cross calling, defeasance, investments and liquidity facilities.
Thomson Municipal has ranked Quateman LLP in the top ten bond counsel firms in the nation. We are listed in The Bond Buyer’s Municipal Marketplace Directory, aka the "Red Book," giving us the ability as nationally recognized bond counsel to provide a written opinion as to the legality of any bond, note or certificate issue. We have given opinions at closing in various bond transactions as bond, disclosure, underwriter’s, trustee’s and special counsel. Lisa Greer Quateman has served as a litigation consultant with expertise in municipal finance on behalf of State Street Bank & Trust Company and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In addition to familiarity with more traditional debt structures, we have experience documenting new, complex and unique financing arrangements, including loans to limited liability companies, LIBOR-based variable rate and shared appreciation loans. Examples of recent transactions include: numerous public debt offerings in which the firm has served as bond, underwriter’s or disclosure counsel, including bond transactions involving letters of credit, swaps, auction rate securities and guaranteed investment contracts; counseling regarding rights, remedies and documentation in other secured transactions involving real and personal property and acting for corporate and partnership clients in debt and equity offerings.
