Blank Rome Partners Joan N. Stern and Dacia A. Haddad co-authored a chapter titled "Public Finance Law—Building America" in the book Lawyers as Economic Drivers: The Business Case for Legal Services. The chapter explains how public finance law governs transactions that are key economic drivers in communities across the United States, changing the country's landscape, providing employment opportunities, and positively impacting the lives of residents served by projects funded through public finance. The authors focus on state and municipal bonds and the integral role attorneys play, from drafting legislation authorizing the financing program and the governing instruments for the bonds, through negotiating the transaction's structure and the terms of the bonds, to the issuance of an opinion upon closing of the bond issue.
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