Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce that Laurie Schwartz has joined the firm’s Public & Infrastructure Finance Practice in Atlanta as Of Counsel. She arrives from Butler Snow where she executed a wide range of public finance transactions.
Ms. Schwartz has served as bond counsel and underwriter counsel on several notable tax-exempt financings in the US. Her expertise serving as underwriter’s counsel included the issuance of a $124 million public improvement bond issuance supporting a nearly $1 billion, 56-acre, regional waterfront development. She served as Co-Disclosure counsel on a $2.4 billion special facilities bonds issuance supporting a nearly $4 billion public-private partnership for the design, operation and maintenance of an airport terminal.
Bob Labes, who is Group Leader of the Public & Infrastructure Finance Practice, commented, “Laurie is an experienced practitioner and her arrival continues our expansion into one of the nation’s fastest growing regions at a time when infrastructure development is at the forefront of our national agenda.”
Ms. Schwartz commented, “Squire Patton Boggs is nationally recognized in public and infrastructure finance and I look forward to contributing to its long tradition of excellence working alongside my new colleagues.”