DALLAS – Feb. 7, 2025 – Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP further expands its Public Finance & Infrastructure Practice with the addition of Drew Slone as a shareholder in Dallas. Slone joins Greenberg Traurig from Troutman Pepper Locke, where she was a partner in its Public Finance practice.
"At Greenberg Traurig, we thoughtfully hire to ensure alignment with our values, culture, and strategic goals. With Drew, our Dallas office enters an exciting new chapter, strengthening our presence in the public finance and infrastructure practice in Texas," said Richard A. Rosenbaum, Greenberg Traurig Executive Chairman. "Additionally, with Drew, we continue our commitment to developing and retaining top talent in the state, along with the recent additions of Shareholders Gemma Descoteaux, Rob LeBlanc, and Kurt Lyn. We are certain they will make a collective impact on clients, colleagues, and the legal community."
“Welcoming Drew Slone to Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder in our Public Finance & Infrastructure Practice is a significant step in our strategic expansion in Texas,” said Franklin D.R. Jones Jr., co-chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Public Finance & Infrastructure Practice. “Drew’s extensive experience in leveraging special districts and development incentives for master-planned residential and mixed-use communities will greatly enhance our ability to serve developer, underwriter, and issuer clients alike, not only in Texas, but across the United States. Her expertise aligns perfectly with our commitment to providing innovative and effective solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges.”
With over 18 years of experience, Slone’s practice focuses on advising developers, underwriters, and issuers in municipal bond and economic development transactions. She has experience acting on transactions involving governmental capital projects, residential real estate, and utility projects.
Slone has represented cities, underwriters, and developers as bond counsel, acting on over $3 billion in capital financing, and also has acted as underwriter’s counsel in innovative revenue monetization deals.
“I am thrilled to join Greenberg Traurig’s Public Finance Practice, especially at a time when the firm is experiencing such dynamic growth and expansion,” Slone said. “I am excited to work with the leading Public Finance team in Texas, and the firm’s land secured debt financing practice across the nation, and look forward to being part of Greenberg Traurig’s culture of collaboration and excellence.”
Slone’s addition to the Dallas office is aligned with Greenberg Traurig’s focus on building top legal talent in the city and the firm’s strategic ambition to continue to serve clients in Texas and throughout the United States.
Greenberg Traurig’s Public Finance & Infrastructure Practice was recently ranked as one of the top bond counsel firms in the United States by The Bond Buyer in their annual ranking of the nation’s leading bond counsel.
About Greenberg Traurig’s Public Finance & Infrastructure Practice: Greenberg Traurig, LLP has a national public finance practice that consistently ranks among the top bond, disclosure, and underwriter’s counsel firms according to The Bond Buyer’s nationwide and statewide rankings. Greenberg Traurig LLP’s Public Finance & Infrastructure Practice has been serving the needs of state and local issuers, underwriters, credit providers, bondholders, and conduit borrowers throughout the United States for more than forty years in virtually every area of public finance. The firm currently has more than 35 attorneys in the Public Finance & Infrastructure Practice advising on transactions throughout the United States.
About Greenberg Traurig: Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2750 attorneys in 49 locations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm is a 2024 BTI “Leading Edge Law Firm” for delivering on client expectations for the future and is consistently among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100 and NLJ 500. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab. The firm is recognized for powering its U.S. offices with 100% renewable energy as certified by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e® Energy program and is a member of the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership Program. The firm is known for its philanthropic giving, innovation, diversity, and pro bono. Web: www.gtlaw.com.