Meghan B. Burke

  • Served as bond counsel to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), one of the country’s largest transit agencies, since 1995. During that time, she has helped create several different credits, including drafting legislation providing MBTA a dedicated revenue source. In addition to billions of dollars of capital markets transactions, including long-term bonds, commercial paper, multi-model bonds, she also represented the MBTA in connection with secured loans from the US Department of Transportation Build America Bureau’s Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) and Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loan programs, cross border and leveraged rolling stock leases, and other transactions.
  • Served as bond counsel to the Vermont Bond Bank since 1995. In addition to the pooled loan program providing financing to local municipal entities in Vermont, she also helped establish an energy efficiency loan program funded from a zero-interest loan from the Unites States Department of Agriculture.
  • Served as counsel to several private universities and as bond counsel in connection with a public private partnership for a new student housing facility.
  • Served as bond counsel to Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corporation for their Student Housing Revenue Bonds (PRG-RI Properties URI LLC) Senior Series 2025A & Subordinate Series 2025B, the first public private partnership in Rhode Island to fund three housing projects at the University of Rhode Island.
  • Representative underwriter’s counsel matters:
    • All offerings for the benefit of Beth Israel Lahey Health, Dartmouth Health and UMass Memorial Obligated Groups.
    • Nearly all issuances of bonds by the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) since 1990
    • Higher education financings for many institutions in the Northeast and Washington, D.C.
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Creative Financing Program Pays Off

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.