Anna is a public finance partner focused on structuring and executing complex infrastructure projects from concept to closing and beyond. She is a recognized emerging leader for her considerable experience advising issuers, underwriters, developers and borrowers on public bond offerings. In addition to her financing practice, Anna counsels clients on tax credits and other governmental incentives.
Anna’s experience includes counseling clients on transportation facilities, mixed-use developments, continuing care retirement communities, renewable energy facilities, exempt facilities, multifamily housing and hospitals. Additionally, Anna assists clients with special obligation revenue and general revenue backed deals.
Outside of her law practice, Anna is dedicated to the advancement of women in the public finance profession – she is a member of the board of directors of Women in Public Finance and co-founded the Maryland Women in Public Finance chapter. Anna serves on the board of directors for the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Maryland and is also on the board of trustees of Baltimore Center Stage, the State theatre of Maryland.
Before joining McGuireWoods, Anna clerked for Judge Alexander Wright Jr. of the Appellate Court of Maryland (formerly the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland). While earning her law degree from the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, Anna was a leadership scholar, an intern/Asper fellow to Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, and an articles editor on the Journal of Health Care Law & Policy.
Experience
- Ongoing representation of the Georgia Department of Transportation in connection with the procurement and implementation of a construction manager/general contractor for US 17 / SR 404 Spur Talmadge Bridge in Savannah, Georgia, a first-of-its-kind project in Georgia.
- Ongoing representation of the Maryland Department of Transportation in connection with Governor Hogan’s Traffic Relief Plan, which seeks to transform the Capital Beltway by adding capacity through new toll lanes along the Capital Beltway between the American Legion Bridge and Woodrow Wilson Bridge.
- Ongoing advice to the Georgia Department of Transportation in connection with planned transportation public-private partnerships, including for Georgia State Route 400, one of the state’s busiest highways.
- Represented a leading financial institution as lead underwriter for the $397.31 million financing of additional capacity lanes for an expressway project in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.
- Represented a leading financial institute as underwriters counsel for the $643.45 million refinancing of the Purple Line light rail project in the Washington, D.C. area.
- Represented initial purchasers in connection with a combined Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of a $608.5 million note to refinance existing municipal bond debt for an expressway project in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.
- Represented a leading financial institution as underwriters counsel for the $571.55 million financing on a forward delivery basis for a tunnel system in the Norfolk-Portsmouth, Virginia region.
- Represented a leading financial institution as underwriters counsel for the $537.51 million refinancing related to the I-685 managed lane project.
- Represented a leading financial institution as underwriters counsel in the issuance of $331.79 million Texas Private Activity Bond Surface Transportation Corporation Senior Lien Revenue Refunding Bonds Series 2019A and $871 million Texas Private Activity Bond Surface Transportation Corporation Senior Lien Revenue Refunding Bonds Taxable Series 2019B related to the North Tarrant Express managed lane project.
- Represented underwriter in the Maryland Economic Development Corporation’s $54.26 million financing of Southfields Sports Park Complex, a public-private partnership to construct a multipurpose athletic field complex located in Elkton, Maryland.
- Represented underwriter in Maryland Economic Development Corporation’s $22.89 million financing of a new headquarters for Baltimore City Mayor’s Office of Employment Development.
- Represented underwriter in Maryland Economic Development Corporation’s $148.675 million financing for University of Maryland, College Park – Leonardtown project, a graduate student residential housing project in Leonardtown, Maryland.
- Represented underwriter in Maryland Economic Development Corporation’s $52.945 million financing for Morgan State University’s Harper-Tubman project, a public-private partnership providing undergraduate student housing in Baltimore City, Maryland.
- Represented a leading global financial institution as underwriter in the City of Nashville’s Metropolitan Council Industrial Development Board’s $42.88 million financing of infrastructure for Century Farms, a 300.5-acre, mixed-use development that includes retail, restaurant, multifamily residential, office and hotel uses located in South Nashville’s Central Business Improvement District.
- Acted as special counsel to the City of Atlanta in connection with the structuring, negotiation and implementation of a public-private partnership to develop and complete a 22-mile loop of parks, pedestrian/bike trails and future transit connecting more than 40 neighborhoods around the City of Atlanta, commonly known as the ”Atlanta BeltLine” project.
- Represented a bidder as local counsel in connection with its bid for the Purple Line project in Maryland to provide a new east-west connection to areas around the Washington, D.C. region through a public-private partnership.
- Represented underwriters as local counsel in the initial $313.035 million financing of the construction of the Purple Line project in Maryland.
- Represented the City of Baltimore in connection with:
- City-Wide Affordable Housing Project, one of the nation’s first applications of a tax increment financing structure to support the redevelopment of vacant homes throughout Baltimore City into affordable housing units for residents.
- Port Covington Project, one of the largest redevelopment projects in the United States to revitalize a portion of the Baltimore waterfront, facilitated through tax increment financing bonds, construction loans, opportunity zone equity investments and low-income housing tax credits.
- Harbor Point Project, including the financing and refinancing of a 27-acre mixed-use project, through multiple issues of tax increment financing bonds.
- Center\West (Poppleton) Project, an urban renewal project with affordable housing, completed through the use of tax increment financing bonds, HUD loan proceeds and equity.
Events
- Panelist, "TIF Deal Structure: Underwriting, Negotiating and Bond Financing," CDFA Summer Institute: Intro Tax Increment Finance, August 7, 2025
- Moderator, "The Role of Underwriter’s Counsel," National Association of Bond Lawyers, May 15, 2025
- Panelist, "The Role of Issuer’s Counsel," National Association of Bond Lawyers, May 15, 2025
- Panelist, "Tying It All Together," National Association of Bond Lawyers, April 12, 2024
- Panelist, "State Law Issues," National Association of Bond Lawyers, April 11, 2024
- Moderator, "How to Ace Your Summer Job and Beyond," Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Maryland, April 4, 2024
- Moderator, "Clean Energy Finance Forum," CDFA National Development Finance Summit, November 9, 2023
- Panelist, "The Different Faces of Business Law," University of Maryland Carey School of Law, November 2022
- Panelist, "Diversity in Transactional Practice," Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA) Real Property Section and MSBA Tax Section, March 2017
Insights
- Quoted, MuniOS back online after cyber attack took servers down, The Bond Buyer, October 16, 2025
- Author, DOT Increases Maximum TIFIA Loan Financing for Transportation Infrastructure Projects, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, August 6, 2025
- Author, Takeaways for Nonprofit Healthcare Systems From SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Interpretations, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, August 20, 2024
- Author, Three Takeaways for Municipal Bond Issuers From the New SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, September 6, 2023
- Author, Five Things Affordable Housing Developers Need to Know About the American Rescue Plan Act, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, September 8, 2022
- Author, Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds: Five Things Governments Need to Know, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, June 9, 2021
- Quoted, "When State and Local Governments Can Expect to Receive Stimulus Funds," Route Fifty, March 19, 2021
- Author, $350 Billion Slated for State, Local Governments as President Signs American Rescue Plan, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 12, 2021
- Author, Demise of Bill Requiring Prevailing Wages for TIF-Funded Construction Contractors, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 3, 2017
- Co-author, "Litigation and Social Media: Using Social Media to Your Advantage at Every Step of the Trial," The Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel Quarterly, August 24, 2014
- Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Public Finance Law, 2021-2026
- Selected for inclusion in Leading Lawyers, Public Finance, Maryland, Chambers USA, 2024, 2025
- Recognized as a “Rising Star,” The Bond Buyer, 2024
- Recognized as a “Generation J.D. Honoree,” Leadership in Law Awards, The Daily Record, 2022