Bond counsel

An attorney who prepares the legal opinion concerning a municipal bond issue.

Bond Counsel

An attorney who writes an official opinion stating that a local government is legally permitted to issue a municipal bond. A new issue of a municipal bond is required to have this statement from a bond counsel.

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For more than 20 years, Gilmore & Bell has ranked in the top 10 nationally in the number of bond counsel opinions rendered on municipal bond issues.

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Request for qualifications: provide bond counsel services.

Request For Qualifications - Bond Counsel Services

The firm served as bond counsel for the issuance by the Cobb-Marietta Coliseum and Exhibit Hall Authority and as special counsel and disclosure counsel to Cobb County, Ga.

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He concentrates his practice in public finance, primarily in the roles of bond counsel, disclosure counsel, or underwriter's counsel in municipal bond transactions.

Alan B. Linkous, Attorney, Howell Linkous & Nettles, LLC to Speak at the Knowledge Group's Municipal Bonds: Maximizing Opportunities and Minimizing Risks in 2015 & Beyond

A proposed amendment, said by multiple Capitol sources to be gathering steam, would also strip out one of the Republican governor's signature ethics initiatives - barring legislators from making money by serving as bond counsel on public debt offerings.

Facing Blowback, Ethics Bill Could Lose Punch

Who's going to buy the bonds if you know the bond counsel has no responsibility for the integrity of the transaction?

Stephens Inc., others ask reversal on bond ruling

The district's bond counsel, Lisalee Anne Wells, told the board she didn't know how much money had been misspent.

LA Colleges to fight bond money waste

The law firm of Miller Canfield announces that it again ranks first among Michigan bond counsel law firms in the 2007 Bond Counsel Rankings by Thomson Financial, completing 135 long term new bond issues totaling $3.

Miller Canfield

The bond opinion is issued on the basis of a set of assumptions and representations provided by the bond counsel and signed by corporate officers (typically known as the "Tax Certificate"), so that any factual development that is done at the time of the issuance would be limited to any due diligence performed by the company to support the Tax Certificate.

Tax departments should be prepared for audits of tax-exempt bonds

Statements of this nature should only be made after a thorough review of the bond issue and discussions with bond counsel.

What To Do When the IRS Audits Your Bonds

The carrier has not set a date for the issue, but a spokesperson for the bond counsel McCarter & English indicated that the bonds could be sold before the end of 2000.