Gilberto Delgado Jr.

Gilberto Delgado Jr. is a senior associate in the Public & Infrastructure Finance Practice in our Miami office, with a particular emphasis on bond issues in the state of Florida.

Gilberto has worked on transactions serving as bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel, disclosure counsel and borrowers’ counsel in a variety of issues, for both new money and refinancing purposes.

Recently, Gilberto assisted, as underwriters’ counsel to an underwriting syndicate that included Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as managing underwriter, with the Sports Authority of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County’s US$705 million issuance of stadium project revenue bonds, which set a public subsidy package record (circa US$1.2 billion) for the development of a professional sports stadium in the US. The stadium is estimated to open around 2027 and be home to the NFL Tennessee Titans.

In 2020, Gilberto assisted, as underwriter’s counsel, with the City of Tampa’s US$362.8 million issuance of water and wastewater systems revenue and refunding revenue bonds, which was named “Southeast Region Deal of the Year”. Notably, at the time of the sale, it was the “largest bond sale in Florida completed since the start of the pandemic,” as well as the largest Southeast water and wastewater financing by par amount.

Gilberto graduated from the University of Miami School of Law. As a law student, Gilberto was a member of the University of Miami Investor’s Rights Clinic, where he represented under-served investors in securities arbitration claims against their brokers before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Gilberto also worked as a law clerk for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the Enforcement division of the Miami office, focusing on million-dollar Ponzi schemes. Gilberto is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers, Cuban American Bar Association, Hispanic National Bar Association, and the Belen Alumni Lawyers Section.