Christie L. Martin
- Served as borrower counsel to Boston College and bond counsel for the issuance of Massachusetts Development Finance Agency Revenue Bonds, Boston College Issue, Series W (2025). The $372,660,000 in bond proceeds were loaned to the College, funding renovations to two new campuses: Messina College, offering a 2-year residential, associate degree program for 1st generation college students, and the Newton East Campus which will be the new location for the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.
- Represented the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA) as bond counsel for its issuance of Revenue Bonds, Series 2025A (Federally Taxable) and Series 2025B (AMT). This transaction raised $282,055,000 in funds for MEFA, a student loan lender, providing funds that enable students to attend approximately 1,300 participating non-profit colleges and universities. Mintz has served as Bond Counsel, Finance Counsel and Program Counsel to MEFA on all MEFA financing activities since its inception.
- Represented Bowdoin College as both borrower’s counsel and bond counsel on the Finance Authority of Maine Revenue Bonds, Bowdoin College Issue Series 2025A and Series 2025B. The $41 million in multi-modal bonds financed and refinanced renovations to numerous campus buildings, construction of a hockey arena, classroom construction, and network infrastructure upgrades, in part through the refunding of outstanding bonds. This financing marked the College’s first conduit bond issuance in seven years and used a different conduit issuer than for other recent transactions.
- Represented Massachusetts Development Finance Agency as bond counsel and Mass General Brigham, the largest integrated non-profit healthcare system in Massachusetts, as borrower’s counsel for the issuance of Massachusetts Development Finance Agency Revenue Bonds, Mass General Brigham Issue, Series D and Series E. The $459,185,000 tax-exempt bond financing included one tranche of fixed rate bonds and two tranches of variable rate demand bonds. Bond proceeds will fund the building of a new inpatient hospital building and the expansion of a second hospital.
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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.