Public Finance Law

Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer attorneys furnish the full range of corporate, finance, transactional and bond counsel legal services to municipal, tax-exempt and financial institution clients with governmental debt issues. Our attorneys have participated in a wide range of public projects and programs, including education, roads and bridges, transportation, utilities, community redevelopment, health care, 501(c)(3) organizations, community development and industrial development. The range of our attorneys’ expertise and the variety of roles that they have played in a transactions enables our firm to provide valuable insights to quickly and cost-efficiently realize client goals.

We are a nationally-recognized bond counsel whose financing opinions are accepted by the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank, the New Hampshire Municipal Bond Bank, Vermont and New Hampshire state financing authorities, local and regional commercial banks, national public securities underwriters, the United States Department of Agriculture and the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Lawyers at the firm are members of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and the firm and two of its members are listed in The Bond Buyer’s Municipal Marketplace, often called the “Red Book.”

Clients Served

Municipalities and Schools

• Towns, cities & villages
• School districts
• Municipal utilities
• Solid waste districts
• Consolidated water districts
• Public transportation agencies
• Fire Districts

Tax-Exempt Organizations Representation in capital financing through the Vermont Educational and Health Buildings Financing Agency, Vermont Economic Development Authority, the New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority and the Business Finance Authority of the State of New Hampshire. Serving:

• Healthcare facilities
• Educational institutions
• Other tax-exempt institutions

Financial Institutions & Other Lenders Underwriters in larger municipal finance transactions in VT and NH

Services Provided

• Assists and guides clients through all phases of financings ranging from short-term working capital transactions to major long-term project bond issues and complex capital lease financings
• Negotiates and prepares documentation for complex secured and unsecured credit transactions and in tax-exempt financings
• Issues legal opinions required in tax-exempt bond transactions