Connie serves on Barclay Damon’s Management Committee as the firm’s deputy managing partner and is the Public Finance Practice Area chair. With more than 35 years of experience, she serves as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, borrower counsel, and bank counsel in public finance transactions involving NYS agencies and authorities, industrial development agencies, local development corporations, municipalities, and school districts. Her extensive financing experience involves college and university projects, hospitals, assisted-living facilities, affordable multi-family housing projects, and infrastructure projects.
As bond counsel to more than 100 municipalities and school districts, Connie represents general-obligation clients in the issuance of tax-exempt bonds and notes to finance capital projects, pension obligations, tax certiorari settlements and judgments, the issuance of revenue and tax anticipation notes to finance cash-flow deficits, and the issuance of current refunding bonds to achieve debt-service savings. She represents general-obligation issuers in connection with financings through the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York and the Environmental Facilities Corporation, capital projects financed with energy performance contracts, and non-recourse borrowings through the NYS Municipal Bond Bank Authority.
Connie also develops creative financing solutions and offers advice on disclosure obligations for major underwriting firms active in New York State.