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.
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Duke University School of LawJD
Member, Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, Member, Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
1994 -
The College of William & MaryAB
summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
1991
Selected for inclusion in America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Public Finance, Virginia, Chambers USA, 2024
Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, Banking and Finance Law, 2018-2024; Public Finance Law, 2024; Woodward/White, Inc.
Named to “Legal Elite,” Legal Services/Pro Bono, Virginia Business, 2014, 2015, 2016
- Author, Treasury Approves New Municipal Liquidity Facility to Aid States, Counties and Cities, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 10, 2020
- Author, IRS Clarifies Acceptable Tenant Preferences for Affordable Multifamily Housing Bonds, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 8, 2019
- Author, Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act Will Impact Municipal Securities Market, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 22, 2010
- Author, An Important Reminder about Schedule K of IRS Form 990 (Tax-Exempt Bonds), McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 15, 2010
- Author, Extension of Stimulus Act Bond Provisions in Doubt as Bill Founders in Senate, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 13, 2010
- Author, Recently Introduced Bills Affect Public Schools and Energy Tax Credit Bonds, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, December 15, 2009
- Author, Non-profit Organizations: Stimulus Act Encourages Investment in Tax-Exempt Debt of Higher Education, Healthcare, and Other Non-profit Organizations, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 16, 2009
- Virginia
- 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