David J. LaSota

Experience: Credit Tenant Loans/Lease Finance: Acted as counsel to institutional investor in connection with a $63 million credit tenant loan financing of a Department of Veterans Affairs out-patient facility where a new residual value guaranty was negotiated and implemented as part of the financing.; Acted as counsel to institutional investor in connection with a $65 million financing of Park City, Utah, ski resort involving an amendment and assumption of existing debt together with the issuance of variable rate notes.; Acted as counsel to institutional investors in connection with a $178.75 million credit tenant loan build-to-suit construction to permanent financing of a new corporate headquarters building in San Diego, California, which included a bifurcated funding.; Acted as counsel to institutional investors in connection with a $87.9 million credit tenant loan financing of two student residences of a Big Ten university.; Acted as counsel to institutional investors in connection with an A$76.3 million leased-backed financing of a student residence for an Australian university.; Project / Infrastructure: Represented institutional investors in a $68,693,000 senior secured financing backed by a concession agreement and thermal services agreement between a special purpose entity and a major hospital system which financed the installation of energy system improvements and the operation and maintenance of the utility plant located on the hospital's main campus.; Represented institutional investors in a $42,500,000 senior secured financing backed by a concession agreement and thermal services agreement between a special purpose entity and a hospital system which financed the installation of energy system improvements and the operation and maintenance of the utility plant located on the hospital's main campus.; 59,000,000 Senior Secured Notes of Sikuki Nuuk Harbour A/S (Greenland Port).; US$77,000,000 Senior Secured Notes of Gloucester Terminals LLC (Gloucester Ports, New Jersey).; US$263,000,000 Senior Secured Notes of Northwest Parkway LLC (Northwest Parkway, Denver, Colorado).; US$231,950,000 (Tax Exempt) and U.S.$57,996,000 (Taxable) Senior Secured Notes of Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority (Kentucky Open-access Fiber Optic Broadband Network) Selected as The Bond Buyer's 2015 Deal of the Year.; Public-Private Partnerships: Underwriter's Counsel for $610,300,000 Michigan Strategic Fund Limited Obligation Revenue Bonds (I-75 Improvement Project), Series 2018.; Acted as underwriter's and investors' counsel in connection with US $232 million tax-exempt bond and US $58 million taxable private placement bond of the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority to finance a public-private partnership (P3) to bring high-speed Internet to all 120 of Kentucky's counties. The bond offering was selected as The Bond Buyer's 2015 Deal of the Year.; US$175,000,000 Senior Secured Loans to Millennium Parking Garages LLC (Millennium Parking Garages - Chicago) by a Syndicate of Banks from the United States, Italy, Canada, and Australia; US$44,313,579 Senior Secured Notes of Freeway Lighting Partners, LLC (Michigan Department of Transportation Freeway Lighting Concession); US$518,500,000 Senior Secured Notes of Long Beach Judicial Partners LLC (Long Beach Courthouse Concession); Surplus / Tier 2 Notes: Acted as counsel to investors in a U.S. private placement of $260 million aggregated principal amount of subordinated (Tier 2 capital) notes of a New York state chartered bank.; Acted as counsel to institutional investors in connection with $60 million purchase of surplus notes of a mutual insurance company.