Anna focuses her practice on public finance with an emphasis on infrastructure financings. She is a recognized emerging leader for her considerable experience advising clients on infrastructure projects from conception to financing. In addition to her financing practice, Anna counsels clients on tax credits and other governmental incentives.
Anna partners with issuers, underwriters, developers and borrowers on a variety of financing structures with a particular focus on public bond offerings. Anna’s bond practice includes land-secured transactions, incremental tax revenue pledges and general revenue pledges, and she has counseled clients on financings for mixed-use developments, transportation facilities, continuing care retirement communities, renewable energy facilities, exempt facilities, multifamily housing and hospitals.
Anna co-founded the Maryland Women in Public Finance chapter and serves as its president and a member of its board of directors. Anna is active in the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Maryland, is the President Elect and serves as the co-chair of its Judicial Nominating Committee.
Before joining McGuireWoods, Anna clerked for Judge Alexander Wright Jr. of 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.
Ongoing representation to 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 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 $537.51 million Texas Private Activity Bond Surface Transportation Corporation Senior Lien Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2020A and the $7.025 million Texas Private Activity Bond Surface Transportation Corporation Senior Lien Revenue Refunding Bonds 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 a leading global financial institution as underwriter in the City of Nashville’s Metropolitan Council Industrial Development Board’s issuance of $18.845 million Senior Special Assessment Revenue Bonds, $12.688 million Senior Special Assessment Revenue Capital Appreciation Bonds and $11.349 million Subordinate Special Assessment Revenue Capital Appreciation Bonds. The combined issuance financed the construction 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 underwriters in the $643.45 million financing and refinancing of the construction of the Purple Line project in Maryland.
Represented the City of Baltimore in connection with:
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 the 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.
Represented the Revenue Authority of Prince George’s County in the issuance of $40 million taxable bonds. The proceeds of the issuance financed a 1,100-space parking garage at the University of Maryland Medical System’s Capital Regional Medical Center.
Member, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Member, Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Maryland
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Project Finance Board, Law360, 2022
Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
Member, Maryland Women in Public Finance
Recognized as a "Generation J.D. Honoree," Leadership in Law Awards, The Daily Record, 2022
Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Public Finance Law, 2021-2023