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Rod Kanter

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Rod Kanter

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Rod Kanter is a member of the firm's Public Finance Practice Group and the Emerging Growth Company Team. His primary practice includes serving as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, and counsel to issuers of letters of credit in all types of tax-exempt and taxable debt financings. His representation of clients include the State of Alabama, various health care authorities, cities and counties, colleges and universities, industrial development boards, commercial development authorities, airport authorities, water and sewer systems, and various other types of public entities in the State of Alabama.

In addition to his core public finance practice, Rod represents cities and counties throughout the State in economic development projects. In connection with this work, Rod negotiates on behalf of public entities in structuring and negotiating the terms of tax-sharing and other incentive arrangements.

Rod has been an active participant and lecturer in numerous seminars and programs in public finance, including for the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL). Rod serves as Vice-Chair of the Municipal Securities Committee of NABL, and is a faculty member for NABL’s Fundamentals of Municipal Bonds seminar.

Experience

$118,000,000 Taxable Series 2013-A Bonds of The Health Care Authority for Baptist Health, An Affiliate of UAB Health System

$10,945,000 General Obligation Warrants, Series 2013, and $6,935,000 Public Building, Bridge and Road Tax Anticipation Warrants, Series 2013, of Walker County, Alabama

$66,500,000 Series 2013-B Bonds (R-FLOATs) of The Health Care Authority for Baptist Health, An Affiliate of UAB Health System

$20,030,000 General Obligation Refunding Warrants, Series 2013-A and Series 2013-B, of the City of Huntsville, Alabama

$327,935,000 Alabama Federal Aid Highway Finance Authority Federal Highway Grant Anticipation Bonds, Series 2012

$9,310,000 The City of Phenix City Downtown Redevelopment Authority, Taxable Revenue Bonds, Series 2013-A

$4,200,000 City of Thomasville General Obligation Refunding and Capital Improvement Warrants, Series 2013

$3,181,732 City of Haleyville General Obligation Warrants, Series 2013

$124,225,000 Alabama Incentives Financing Authority Tax-Exempt Special Obligation Bonds, Series 2012-A

$29,900,000 City of Auburn General Obligation Refunding and Capital Improvement Warrants, Series 2012-B

$24,325,000 State Board of Education of the State of Alabama Calhoun Community College Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2012 

$56,305,000 City of Huntsville General Obligation Refunding and Capital Improvement Warrants, Series 2012-A

$9,535,000 City of Northport General Obligation Warrants, Series 2012-C

$79,340,000 Alabama Public School and College Authority Pool Refunding Bonds, Series 2012-A

$85,435,000 Capital Improvement, Economic Development and Training Refunding Bonds, Series 2012-B

$18,500,000 City of Auburn, Alabama, General Obligation Capital Improvement School Warrants, dated February 22, 2012

$25,190,000 State Board of Education of the State of Alabama, Wallace State Community College - Hanceville Capital Improvement Revenue Bonds, Series 2012

$45,210,000 Alabama Drinking Water Finance Authority Revolving Fund Loan Refunding Bonds, Series 2012-A

$32,740,000 University of South Alabama University Facilities Revenue Capital Improvement Bonds, Series 2012-A and Series 2012-B

$5,525,000 City of Auburn General Obligation Capital Improvement Bonds, Series 2012-D

$2,305,000 City of Cullman General Obligation Refunding Warrant, dated April 13, 2012

$6,180,000 City of Auburn General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2012-B

Distinctions

  • Listed in Chambers USA, Banking & Finance: Public Finance, 2013
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®, Public Finance Law, 2012-2013
  • Listed in Alabama Super Lawyers, Bonds/Government Finance, 2013

Memberships and Affiliations

National Association of Bond Lawyers