Clint’s practice focuses on representing sponsors, buyers, sellers, developers, issuers, borrowers, lenders, debt and equity investors and other parties in the structuring and financing of energy, energy efficiency, economic development, transportation and social infrastructure projects. His well-rounded experience includes representing foreign and domestic small and large cap corporations, banks and other institutional lenders, credit and liquidity facility providers, hedge providers, investment banks, governmental issuers, trustees and nonprofit organizations in a broad range of public and private financings and related commercial transactions.
Clint has significant experience in publicly offered and privately placed conventional, tax-exempt and other tax-advantaged financings involving a broad range of asset classes and credit profiles, including new markets, production, investment tax credits and jobs incentive financings, project and real estate-based revenue bond financings, manufacturing facilities, airport facilities and education, healthcare and other nonprofit facilities. He also has commercial lending experience representing a variety of regional and international banks and other institutional lenders in credit transactions across the country.
Clint also devotes a considerable portion of his practice to counseling institutional lending, investment bank, governmental and corporate clients in a variety of federal securities matters, tax matters and other regulatory compliance matters.
While earning his law degree from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Clint was a recipient of The Public Service Award in 2007. Prior to his legal career, he was an arbitrage rebate and post-issuance compliance consultant at Ernst & Young LLP.
- Representation of the borrower in over $200 million multi-tiered taxable and tax-exempt debt and equity sourced project financing for a biomass conversion and production facility involving multiple foreign and domestic lenders and equity investors
- Representation of the lender in connection with new markets tax credit transaction to finance the development and construction of an additional campus for a charter school
- Bond Counsel in the offering and sale of up to $250 million in par amount of qualified broadband tax-exempt bonds issued as commercial paper involving the creation of a draw down structure backed by a credit facility provided by a large French bank
- Bond Counsel in the financing of an energy conservation incentivized financing involving the reoffering and sale of Federal direct-pay subsidized bonds and PACE financing components
- Representation of the underwriter in the public offering and sale of tax-exempt bonds for solid waste disposal components of a metallurgical processing and production facility
- Representation of a major hospital system in the consolidation of approximately $475 million aggregate par amount of outstanding multi-modal and fixed rate tax-exempt bonds and the issuance and sale of $200 million aggregate par amount of privately placed tax-exempt bonds for the construction of new health care facilities and related improvements in three counties
- Representation of the initial purchaser of approximately $96 million aggregate par amount of privately placed tax-exempt bonds for a psychiatric and behavior health organization in three states
- Bond counsel in the offering and sale of approximately $48 million aggregate par amount of tax-exempt bonds for privately operated airport fixed-based operator facilities in three states
- Representation of the underwriters in the public offering and sale of approximately $162 million aggregate par amount of tax-exempt bonds for a major nonprofit multimedia organization to finance its national headquarters building
- Representation of a charter school in $50 million multi-tiered subleasehold acquisition and construction financing for the school’s permanent campus at the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- Representation of tax equity investors in job creation tax incentive financings in multiple states
Events
- Speaker, "Bonds as a Bedrock of Development Finance," CDFA Maryland Conference, October 2016
- Speaker, "Direct Bank Loans," Maryland Government Finance Officers Association Debt Affinity Group, April 2015
Insights
- Author, Proposed Securities Rule Changes for Municipal Issues Focus on Bank Loans, Other Private Placements, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 30, 2017
- Author, MSRB Proposes Interpretation of Rule G-17 to Restrict an Underwriter’s Ability to Consent as a Bondholder to Certain Changes in Authorizing Documents, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, February 15, 2012
- Author, Updates on Municipal Advisor Registration Requirements, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, February 8, 2012
- Author, ARRA: New IRS Guidance on Draw-Down Loans and Bond-Related Tax Deadlines, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 24, 2010
- Author, SEC Requires “Municipal Advisors” to Register by October 1, 2010, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, September 20, 2010
- 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, SEC Approves Amendments Expanding Continuing Disclosure Requirements Under Rule 15c2-12, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, June 15, 2010
- Author, IRS Announces New Rules Relating to Certain Qualified Tax Credit Bonds and Build America Bonds, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 20, 2010
- Author, IRS Announces Rules for Separating Tax Credits and Qualified Tax Credit Bonds, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 12, 2010