Michael has served as bond, underwriter’s, bank, borrower’s, issuer’s or trustee’s counsel on dozens of tax-exempt bond financings in Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, Wisconsin and Idaho.

He has extensive experience in all aspects of tax-exempt financings for small manufacturing companies; private, nonprofit elementary and secondary schools; nonprofit association headquarters; college and university student housing facilities; hospitals and healthcare facilities; multifamily affordable housing projects (including low-income housing tax credits); solid waste disposal facilities; port facilities; water and waste authorities; community development authorities and other land-based special taxing districts; road and rail transportation projects; and various other borrowers, governmental issuers and their projects.

He is the co-author (with William J. Strickland) of “Financing Virginia’s Local Governments” in the Virginia Local Government Attorneys’ Handbook. A former trial lawyer, Michael has brought numerous judicial proceedings to establish the validity of municipal bonds.

He was a Parkinson scholar at Duke University School of Law and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa at the College of William & Mary.

Events

  • Presenter, "Financial Innovation: A Roadmap to the Closing Table," VHA Housing Credit Conference, September 14, 2022
  • Speaker, "Advance Refundings," Council of Development Finance Agencies’ Bond Finance course, Baltimore, Maryland, August 2016
  • Speaker, "Advance Refundings - Basics, Limitations, Arbitrage & More," Council of Development Finance Agencies’ Bond Finance course, June 10, 2015
  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, Banking and Finance Law, 2018-2026; Public Finance Law, 2024, 2025, 2026
  • Selected for inclusion in Leading Lawyers, Public Finance, Virginia, Chambers USA, 2024, 2025
  • Named to “Legal Elite,” Legal Services/Pro Bono, Virginia Business, 2014, 2015, 2016