CONCENTRATION
David is a senior shareholder of the Davis Brown Law Firm in the Business Division. He has a general practice in, but not limited to, Finance and Public Finance.
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
· BV® Distinguished™ rated by Martindale-Hubbell. The BV certification mark is an excellent rating for a lawyer with more experience.
· The Best Lawyers in America 2012, Public Finance Law
SUMMARY
David has been primarily involved in providing advice, as bond counsel to the State of Iowa and its various agencies, instrumentalities, and political subdivisions with respect to all types of public finance. He has also acted as bond counsel to the Iowa Finance Authority in connection with its Underground Storage Tank program and in connection with the issuance of revenue bonds under the Finance Authority's Correctional Facility program.
He has participated in a wide variety of types of financing at all levels of government. He also has acted as underwriter's counsel, issuer's counsel and bank counsel for a variety of different types of financing the State and its agencies and political subdivisions.
REPRESENTATIVE ENGAGEMENTS
David He has acted as bond counsel for the State of Iowa in connection with its issuance of over $5.0 billion of Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes over the past 25 years.
He has been involved with the Iowa Higher Education Loan Authority (IHELA) since its inception and has been part of the finance team on each of the issues which IHELA has undertaken (over 90 issues aggregating more than $600 million of bonds).
David also acts as bond counsel to Des Moines Area Community College and has been involved in each of DMACCs tax-exempt and taxable financings (more than 55 separate issues) over the past 24 years.
RESOURCES
FASCINATING QUESTIONS SURROUND SECTION 103 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE
03/20/2012 - On March 19, 2012 the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit filed an opinion in a ...
THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009 AND BANK QUALIFIED BONDS
04/10/2009 - The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the "Act") was signed into law by ...
MEMBERSHIPS
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOND LAWYERS
POLK COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION