 Nabors,
Giblin & Nickerson, P.A. is one of the leading public
finance firms in the State of Florida. NG&N's public
finance department is one of the largest in the State.
NG&N's clients include cities, counties, school
districts, industrial development authorities, educational
facility authorities, housing authorities, health care
providers, health facilities, special districts, community
development districts, agencies, interlocal governmental
entities, public and private universities, private borrowers,
financial institutions and others. Over the last five
years, NG&N has served as bond counsel, disclosure
counsel or underwriter's counsel in approximately 900
financings within the State of Florida with an aggregate
principal amount of over $15 Billion. NG&N presently
serves as bond counsel or disclosure counsel to over
60 different Florida local governments.
NG&N regularly serves in the traditional roles of
bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, disclosure counsel,
special counsel, trustee's counsel, issuer's counsel
and bank's counsel in a wide variety of tax-exempt and
taxable governmental financings. NG&N is also a
leader in the market with respect to more non-traditional
public finance areas such as derivatives, tax matters
and public/private financings. NG&N has developed
a reputation throughout the State of Florida for providing
innovative solutions for complex financing problems.
Public
Infrastructure
Florida continues to be one of the fastest growing states
in the Country. With such tremendous growth there is
an ever increasing demand by local governments for financing
solutions to their additional infrastructure requirements.
NG&N is involved in every facet of general public
infrastructure financing, including transportation,
water and wastewater utilities, solid waste, stormwater,
electric utilities, community redevelopment, education,
recreation and other general governmental improvements.
Within the public infrastructure area, NG&N represents
numerous counties, cities, school districts, authorities,
special districts and other governmental entities. As
infrastructure pressures grow, NG&N has become the
State's leader in developing creative approaches to
solving its clients' needs. NG&N has been an innovator
in the use of special assessments, public/private partnerships,
pooled loan programs, tax increment financing techniques,
lease purchase arrangements, interlocal partnerships
and new and unique revenue sources.
Community Development Districts
NG&N is the leading bond counsel firm in the State
of Florida for community development districts. Community
development districts are local units of special purpose
government which are created under State statute to
assist in the financing, construction and maintenance
of public infrastructure to support development. NG&N
brings expertise to these specialized governmental clients
in the technical areas of federal income tax issues,
State law issues and the law relating to the imposition
and levy of special assessments. NG&N attorneys
have been innovating this area of practice for over
fifteen years and bring not only experience but creative
solutions to this dynamic form of government. NG&N
represents community development districts providing
public infrastructure to most of the national homebuilders
in Florida, as well as a large number of local builders
and developers which may be establishing a district
for the first time.
Acute Healthcare/501(c)(3)
NG&N represents a number of premier acute healthcare
providers in Florida as bond counsel and disclosure
counsel. This representation includes public and private
nonprofit entities operating both single facilities
and large healthcare systems. Due to its extensive healthcare
experience, NG&N is also retained by numerous underwriters
and issuers to provide disclosure services on financings
for acute healthcare providers and systems. Such financings
include taxable, tax-exempt, auction rate, fixed rate,
variable rate demand, stand-alone and master trust indenture
transactions, as well as derivative products such as
interest rate swaps, swaptions and interest rate locks.
NG&N is also involved in numerous transactions for
other 501(c)(3) entities providing healthcare services
such as nursing homes, hospices and organ service providers,
both in the roles of bond counsel and underwriter's
counsel. NG&N also represents the issuer of bonds
for such transactions.
Additionally, NG&N provides services related to
senior care facilities (see Senior Care), nonprofit
educational facilities (see Public/Private Education)
and other 501(c)(3) entities such as YMCAs and other
community services providers, including facilities for
special needs individuals.
Senior Care
NG&N has extensive experience, both within Florida
and other southeastern states, providing bond counsel
and underwriter's counsel services on senior care transactions
including nursing homes, assisted and independent living
facilities and continuing care retirement communities.
This experience includes stand-alone and master trust
indenture structures, low income facilities, HUD grant
facilities and faith, community or healthcare system
related facilities.
Public/Private Education
NG&N is an undisputed leader in Florida public school
district financings. Over the last two years NG&N
has participated in over $4 billion of financings for
Florida school districts as bond counsel, disclosure
counsel and underwriter's counsel. NG&N presently
serves in one of these capacities to 21 of the 67 Florida
school districts, including the vast majority of the
most active issuers. The financings include general
obligation bonds, tax anticipation notes, revenue anticipation
notes, certificates of participation, sales tax revenue
bonds and qualified zone academy bonds. NG&N brought
the first certificate of participation/lease-purchase
case to the Florida Supreme Court (State of Florida
v. Brevard County, Florida) and was instrumental in
the Florida Supreme Court case (State of Florida v.
School Board of Sarasota County, Florida) approving
master lease-purchase programs for Florida school districts.
NG&N also provides bond counsel and underwriters
counsel services with respect to financings for charter
schools, community schools and private not-for-profit
post-secondary schools through conduit governmental
issuers.
Affordable Housing Finance
NG&N has the largest affordable housing finance
practice in Florida, acting as bond counsel, disclosure
counsel, issuer’s counsel, underwriter's counsel,
borrower’s counsel and lender’s counsel
on a variety of tax-exempt and taxable housing transactions.
In addition to representing various local housing finance
authorities, NG&N acts as co-special counsel to
the Florida Housing Finance Corporation, and is the
lead counsel to Florida Housing’s affordable housing
guarantee fund. NG&N assists in the financing and
refinancing of multifamily properties through the issuance
of tax-exempt and taxable bonds, the application of
4% and 9% tax credits, the structuring of SAIL, SHIP,
HOME and other second mortgage financing, as well as
other financing vehicles. Representative credit structures
include Fannie Mae, HUD 221(d) and Freddie Mac programs,
bank letters of credit, private placements and others.
Likewise, NG&N has broad experience in the financing
of single family affordable housing as bond counsel,
disclosure counsel, underwriter's counsel and issuer’s
counsel, both by means of tax-exempt and taxable bonds
and through down-payment assistance and other programs.
Julio
M. Aponte | Junious D. Brown III | Crystalyn R. Carey
| L. Thomas Giblin | Steven E. Miller | Robert L. Nabors
| George H. Nickerson, Jr. | Ritesh S. Patel | Gregory
T. Stewart | John R. Stokes | Christopher M. Traber
| William D. Tyler |
