Mr. Healy is in the Business and Tax Group concentrating his practice in public finance, banking, corporate finance, project finance, nonprofit 501(c)(3) and authorities law, including work under the Municipal Authorities Act of 1945, nonprofit 501(c)(3), municipal and authority finance, corporate and governmental law and real estate.  Mr. Healy also concentrates in Section 103 Federal Tax Code matters as it applies to tax exempt financing.  He secures tax exempt financing for state and local governments and agencies, health care institutions, educational institutions, water and sewer authorities, port authorities, transportation authorities, redevelopment authorities, student loan agencies, and industrial development authorities.   

Bar Admissions

• Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and District of Columbia, 1990

Education

• J.D., Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, 1989 (Associate Editor, Catholic University Law Review, Associate, Moot Court Board)
• B.A. Economics, George Washington University, 1980

Representative Matters

• Serves as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, indenture trustee’s counsel, counsel to the issuer or other corporate obligor and counsel to the financial institution providing credit enhancement in all kinds of public finance transactions.
• Represents commercial banks, investment banks and other financial institutions, as well as for-profit and nonprofit corporate borrowers and other private developers and issuers of debt, in many varieties of secured and unsecured commercial lending transactions, public and private debt offerings and project financings throughout the United States.
• Negotiates with federal regulatory agencies, including the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, on behalf of 501(c)(3) entities for-profit health care providers and authorities to secure grant financing and meet other regulatory mandates.
• Advises companies on financing options and prepared all transactional, security and real estate documentation.
• Advises quasi-governmental entities on matters of corporate governance, amended articles of incorporation, prepared operating and service agreements.
• Counsels clients regarding structured investment products and derivatives as utilized by issuers of tax-exempt securities.
• Requests issues in IRS bond audit matters including the negotiation of closing agreements, private letter ruling requests and informal requests for advice from the IRS.

Memberships

• Pennsylvania, American and District of Columbia Bar Associations
• Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
• Member, Pennsylvania Association of Bond Lawyers
• Member of the Allegheny County and the Blair County Bar Associations

Seminars & Speeches

• The Mechanics of Low Floater and Other Bond Financing Techniques, Pennsylvania Economic Development Association Revenue Bond and Mortgage Financing Seminar (October 6, 2004)
• Variable Rate Bond Pools, 1998 Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officers (PASBO) Convention (March 24-27, 1998)
• Municipal Bond Refunding Issues and Forwards and Options Structures, 1998 Pennsylvania State Association of County Controllers Annual Meeting (August 9-13, 1998)

Publications

• Author, Interest Rate Swaps Offer Local Governments More Financing Options, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Summer 2004)
• Published public comments and presented to Internal Revenue Service on proposed IRS Regulations concerning qualified administrative costs adjustments to bond yields.