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David Rogers is a partner with Bricker & Eckler LLP and is chair of the bond, structured & public finance practice group and the investment banking and structured finance industry group. His practice emphasizes public finance, structured finance, securities law, and public debt federal tax matters.
Representative Experience
Serves as bond, structuring, developer's or purchaser's counsel for various project financings, including regional shopping centers, stadiums, arenas and hotel facilities and infrastructure facilities
Serves as bond, disclosure and underwriter's counsel for both tax-exempt and taxable bonds and bond programs, including energy, housing, IDB, hospitals, 501(c)(3), education and traditional issues
Serves as transaction, underwriter's, disclosure and special tax counsel for derivative, swap, structured finance and corporate finance transactions, including securitizations, secondary market transactions and governmental synthetic leases
Structuring and acting as one of the primary counsel for many unique taxable and tax-exempt structured finance transactions, including:
First - S&P rated securitization of defaulted tax-exempt bonds
First - Tax exempt pension refunding bonds in the U.S.
Ohio's First - Energy (gas and electric) prepayment bonds
Ohio's First - Bonds secured by lottery profits
Ohio's First - Lease Purchase Financing for a school building in Ohio
Ohio's First - COPs Financing of a governmental lease within a private building
Ohio's First - Tax Increment revenue bond secured by special assessments
Ohio's First - Swaptions for school districts
Community and Professional Activities
Adjunct member, Tax-Exempt Financing Committee of the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association
Member, American, Ohio State, and Columbus Bar Associations
Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
Frequent speaker at seminars on bond, TIF and special assessment financing, including Council of Development Finance Agencies 2007 Annual Summit and 2007 Tax Increment Finance course
Awards and Recognitions
Listed, Best Lawyers in America (public finance law) 2005-2008
Education
The Ohio State University (B.S., summa cum laude, 1973)
Harvard Law School (J.D., 1976).
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