Sixty Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd attorneys are named Best Lawyers® 2011

Government, Utilities, & Nonprofits

Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd’s Government, Utilities and Nonprofit Industry Group lawyers have a long history of representing entities ranging from counties and municipalities, water and sewer districts, school districts, colleges and universities, state agencies, and nonprofit corporations, foundations and charities. Our Government, Utilities and Nonprofit Industry Group lawyers have developed the knowledge and experience to help clients manage the complex problems that face them on a daily basis.


RECENT MATTERS

  • Serving as co-bond and lead tax counsel for aggregate of $1.2 billion of revenue bonds issued by the State of South Carolina securitized by tobacco settlement payments to the State. 
  • Successfully guiding a municipality and a nonprofit corporation in the financing and construction of a multi million dollar, state-of-the-art city hall. 
  • Negotiating and drafting a design-build contract for a large water treatment plant. 
  • Drafting a design-build procurement ordinance for a county government and then successfully defending a court challenge to that ordinance. 
  • Drafting and implementing Freedom of Information Act policies that address open meetings requirements, response to FOIA requests, executive session parameters, and preparation and retention of minutes. 
  • Successfully represented several public and private entities in the renewable energy sector regarding the constitutionality of the South Carolina Renewable Energy Infrastructure Development Fund.  
  • Serving as bond counsel for several billion dollars of public power utility revenue bonds for the South Carolina Public Service Authority, including a $436 million issue in 2008. 
  • Serving as bond counsel or underwriter’s counsel in 2008 for over $737 million in public and nonprofit hospital financings and interest rate conversions.

 


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