Christie L. Martin
- Serve as bond and/or borrower counsel to several higher education institutions including Boston College, Boston University, the College of the Holy Cross, Merrimack College, Endicott College, Bowdoin College, and Johnson & Wales University with respect to new money and refunding bonds issued by conduit issuers.
- Serve as bond and borrower counsel to Mass General Brigham, Inc., a large healthcare system, with respect to new money and refunding bonds issued by the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency and the New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority and with respect to direct issues of taxable bonds.
- Serve as bond counsel to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in connection with new money and refunding bonds including “green bonds” used to finance a variety of environmentally beneficial projects.
- Represented the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as bond counsel and disclosure counsel on this combined new money/advance refunding issue involving General Obligation Bonds, Consolidated Loan of 2016, Series F (Green Bonds) (Federally Taxable), and General Obligation Refunding Bonds, 2016 Series B. The transaction featured the Commonwealth’s third issuance of “green bonds” to finance a variety of environmentally beneficial projects, with the green bonds being sold as taxable bonds to maintain maximum flexibility with respect to private sector involvement with the financed projects.
- Bond and agency counsel to the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency in connection with bonds and notes issued for the financing of various capital projects for institutions of higher education and hospitals.
- Served as bond counsel to the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency in connection with a new money and refunding bond issues for Wellforce, Inc., a Massachusetts based health system.
- Bond and agency counsel to the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency in connection with bonds and notes issued for the financing of various capital projects for qualified institutions.
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In July 2024, Mintz closed a revolving note purchase agreement for MassHousing that allows the agency to borrow up to $100 million in private activity bonds, providing funds to be lent to developers creating low-income housing in the Bay State.
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Mintz served as bond counsel, finance counsel, and program counsel on the issuance of four tranches of revenue bonds in June 2024 by the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, which totaled more than $475 million.
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A cross-practice Mintz team, led by several Public Finance Members, assisted Mass General Brigham in a $460 million publicly offered tax-exempt bond financing. The transaction marked the not-for-profit, integrated health care system’s return to the public debt market after nearly four years.
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Mintz acted as bond counsel to the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency for a $429 million bond issue for Wellforce Inc. that consolidated three obligated groups into one.
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Mintz quickly closed one of Partners HealthCare’s largest-ever borrowings, totaling over $1 billion, ahead of the new federal tax bill’s effective date. The borrowing involved tax-exempt bonds issued simultaneously in MA and NH.
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Mintz served as co-bond counsel for the Brooklyn Arena Local Development Corporation in connection with the construction financing and refinancing of the Barclays Center. Mintz
Public Finance and Tax attorneys worked on the “Payments in Lieu of Taxes” (PILOT) bond issues.
Public Finance and Tax attorneys worked on the “Payments in Lieu of Taxes” (PILOT) bond issues.
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Mintz serves as bond counsel to the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank. Mintz helped the bank design and implement a new financing structure for the Vermont State Colleges System by advising on disclosure statements, preparing audits for the IRS and addressing tax issues.