Perfil
William L. Gehrig has practiced public finance law for more than 30 years as bond counsel, special tax counsel and underwriter’s counsel in more than 2,500 debt and related financings and refinancings totaling more than $25 billion. Bill has wide-ranging experience in single family and multifamily bond financings, refundings, and restructuring transactions, non-bond financings, HUD regulatory matters (including OIG).
Concentrations
- Single Family & Multifamily Housing Finance
- General Counsel (for Housing Finance Agencies)
- Section 103 Tax
- Regulatory (HUD and CPFB)
Capacidades
Experiencia
- Represents Delaware State Housing Authority as Bond Counsel.
- Represents Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation as General Counsel and Disclosure Counsel.
- Represents Arizona Industrial Development Authority (formerly Arizona Housing Finance Authority) as Bond Counsel and General Counsel.
- Represents Underwriters for Missouri Housing Development Commission on more than $1 billion in single-family and multifamily bond financings.
- Represents California Housing Finance Authority (in regulatory and litigation matters).
- Represents Hilltop Securities, Inc. in its role as financial advisor and TBA contract provider to over 20 state and local housing finance authorities.
- Represents George K. Baum & Company and Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Inc. in single family bond and related financings.
- Represents multiple Texas housing finance corporations in single family and multifamily bond financing.
- Represents Underwriters nationwide on single family bond issues and restructurings of bond issues.
Reconocimientos y Liderazgo
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Public Finance Law, 2008-2025
- Member, The District of Columbia Bar
- Member, National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA)
- Member, National Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies (NALHFA)
- National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL)
- Single Family Bond Panel, 2011-2016
- Chair, Fundamentals of Municipal Bond Law Seminar Faculty, 1989-1993, 1997-2001, and 2004-2005
- Member, Board of Directors, 1998-2001
- Technology Committee, 1998-2002; Faculty, Arbitrage Seminar, 1998
- Chair, Education Committee, 1997-1998
- Steering Committee, Bond Attorneys’ Workshop, 1994-1996
Credenciales
Educación
- Passed Uniform CPA Examination, 1978
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J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
- Executive Editor, Founding Managing Board, Virginia Tax Review
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B.A., with high distinction, University of Virginia
- Echols Scholar
Con licencia para ejercer en
- District of Columbia
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. Tax Court