| Biography | John Overdorff's experience includes work on a wide variety of municipal financings, including general obligation, special districts, certificates of participation, revenue, industrial development, charter schools, housing, correctional facilities and pollution control financings, both as bond counsel and counsel to underwriters. John has practiced in public finance since 1980 and in Arizona since 1987. John was a co-chairman of the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL) special committee that drafted the NABL comment letter on the Securities and Exchange Commission municipal disclosure releases Rule 15c2-12, and was named chairman of NABL's committee on securities law and disclosure in 1995 and 1996. John coordinated two letter requests for SEC guidance on Rule 15c2-12 (on behalf of NABL). He has spoken at a number of industry seminars on municipal disclosure matters. He is serving on the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council as the NABL Representative and as a member of the Board of Directors of NABL. Areas of Concentration · Public finance - bond counsel and underwriter's counsel · Housing · Utilities · Airport facilities · Land secured financings Noteworthy Clients · City of Glendale, Arizona · RBC Capital Markets · Stone & Youngberg, LLC · Arizona Public Service Co. Significant Representations Professional & Community Involvement · National Association of Bond Lawyers
- Representative, Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council, 2008-present
- Director, NABL Board of Directors, 2002-2003
- Chair, Washington Seminar, May 2001
- Vice Chair, Washington Seminar, May 2000
- Chairman, Securities Law and Disclosure Committee, 1995 and 1996
- Chairman, Special Committee on Federal Securities Regulation, 1994
- Co-chairman, Disclosure Panel of 1989 and 1990, Workshop Steering Committee Member, Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council (GASAC), National Association of Bond Lawyers Representative (2001, 2009, 2010) · Arizona Bar Association
- Member, Section on Securities Regulation
- Member, Business Law Section · Board Member and Past President, Phoenix Sister Cities Commission Awards & Recognition · Ranked AV® Preeminent™ 5.0 out of 5* *AV® Preeminent ™ and BV® Distinguished™ are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Articles · Author, "State and Local Governmental Accounting," The Bond Lawyer, Volume 23, No. 3, September 1, 2002 · Author, "MD&A Makes Inroads into Governmental Reporting," Public Finance Advisor, October 1996 · Author, "Extraordinary Nuclear Occurrence, Provision of the Price-Anderson Act: Its Evolution and Application at Three Mile Island" - published in summary form in Trial Magazine, Nov. 1980; published in full in Illinois Trial Lawyers Journal, April, May, June, 1981 (Volume 3, No. 4) · Author, "Legal Issues Arising from Passive Solar Energy Systems," Solar Energy Research Institute and National Information System, June, 1980 |