NEW YORK– LAWFUEL – Law News Network –Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., a full-service, 450-lawyer AmLaw 100 firm with offices throughout the U.S. and in the U.K., is pleased to announce that the firm served as special bond counsel to the New York Yankees in connection with a stadium financing transaction that has been honored as part of The Bond Buyer’s 2006 “Deal of the Year.”
The deal involved the New York City Industrial Development Agency’s sale of $1.587 in tax-exempt and taxable bonds to finance the construction of new stadia for the New York Yankees and the New York Mets. The bonds are secured by payments in lieu of taxes, a structure that required IRS approval and that raised a number of issues of first impression.
“Mintz Levin’s Public Finance Section has an extensive track record working on scores of municipal finance transactions and has earned a reputation for taking a client-oriented, problem-solving approach,” said Jonathan A. Ballan, head of the firm’s New York Public Finance section. “We were pleased to be able to bring our experience to bear for the New York Yankees in this exciting, innovative transaction.”
Mintz Levin attorneys who worked on the transaction in addition to Mr. Ballan include: Charles Carey, Gregory Sandomirsky, Maxwell Solet, Robert Senzer, Michael Fantozzi and Dennis Greene.
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