The reputation of Wolff & Samson as a nationally recognized bond counsel firm is well established. Wolff & Samson is recognized in the Bond Buyer's Directory of Municipal Bond Dealers of the United States as qualified to render opinions in connection with the sale of state and municipal bonds. The firm routinely approves the validity of municipal bonds and notes measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The firm's public finance practice also includes interest rate hedging transactions and various novel public-private partnership techniques, including tax-advantaged structured lease transactions and sale of historic rehabilitation tax credits.

Since its initial appointment as one of the authorized bond counsel to the New Jersey Economic Development Authority in January, 1982, Wolff & Samson has acted as bond counsel to the following issuers:

Wolff & Samson also acts as underwriter's counsel on numerous and varied transactions at the state, county and local levels, including financings of the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority, New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority, New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, New Jersey Economic Development Authority, County of Middlesex, Middlesex County Improvement Authority and Camden County Improvement Authority.

The firm has also acted as Trustee's counsel in numerous public financings at the state, county and municipal levels, involving primarily revenue financings for various utilities authorities, the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority and other state, county and municipal issuers.

The firm has extensive experience in redevelopment and multi-family housing projects, having served in the capacities of owner's counsel, bond counsel and trustee's counsel in numerous housing financings.

Wolff & Samson's expertise in banking, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, corporate and securities, environmental, litigation, real estate and tax complement our public finance activities.

Wolff & Samson acted as bond counsel to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority in connection with the issuance in July, 2003 of its $2,428,990,000 Turnpike Revenue Bonds, Series 2003 A-D to effectuate the consolidation of the New Jersey Highway Authority, which owned and operated the Garden State Parkway and the PNC Bank Performing Arts Center, with and into the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. This transaction, which included fixed rate, variable rate and auction rate bonds and 6 different interest rate “swaps,” was voted the Northeast Regional Deal of the Year by The Bond Buyer, New York, New York.

The firm also acted as bond counsel and swap counsel to the New Jersey Economic Development Authority in connection with the execution and delivery of $3 billion in aggregate notional amount of delayed-start interest rate exchange agreements. These agreements locked in historic low interest rates for $3 billion of the Authority’s future bond issues to fund its school facilities construction program.

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