With more than 25 years of public finance experience, Jo-Ann coordinates the firm’s growing general-obligation bond practice with school districts, cities, towns, villages, fire districts, and other local government entities in connection with issuing bonds and notes to finance capital projects and issuing tax- and revenue-anticipation notes to finance working capital needs. Jo-Ann also works with municipalities in connection with projects financed by the NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation and the US Department of Agriculture, and she works with school districts in connection with projects financed by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York.
Jo-Ann additionally has extensive experience handling public finance transactions involving NYS agencies and authorities, industrial development agencies, and local development corporations. She also documents both bond and lease transactions, working closely with clients and other parties involved in the transaction to facilitate the client’s desired timeframe for closing.