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Lauren M. Trialonas
Principal
Lauren Trialonas focuses her practice on public finance including state and local government law and school law.
Lauren has served as bond counsel and underwriter's counsel with respect to taxable and tax-exempt bond financings and refinancing.
Lauren’s experience includes assisting with bond financings for the benefit of nonprofit colleges and universities and nonprofit healthcare facilities, and solid waste facility bond financings.
In her capacity as bond counsel and underwriter's counsel, Lauren also has experience with current and advance refundings, master trust indentures, variable and multimodal interest rate structures, certificates of participation, remarketings, credit and liquidity facility substitutions and disclosure.
- Serving as bond counsel on general obligation financings for municipalities, school districts and fire districts in the State of New York.
- Serving as bond counsel to the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York for various private and state-supported financings.
- Serving as bond counsel to the State of Connecticut in connection with its general obligation bond program.
- Serving as co-bond counsel to the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation.
- Serving as co-bond counsel to the New York Transportation Development Corporation in connection with its $1.3 billion Special Revenue Bonds, Series 2022 for John F. Kennedy International Airport Terminal 4, as well as the 2022 $4.0 billion financing for JFK Terminal 6 project.
- Serving as disclosure counsel for the Long Island Power Authority’s Electric System General Revenue Bonds.
- Serving as underwriters’ counsel for the $95,000,000 Indiana Finance Authority (Environmental Facilities Refunding Revenue Bonds (Indianapolis Power and Light Company Project) issued on July 30, 2021.
- Serving as underwriters’ counsel for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transportation Revenue Bonds.
- Serving as underwriters’ counsel on various Connecticut Health & Educational Facilities Authority financings.
- Serving as borrower counsel to St. Francis College in connection with the issuance of $17,540,000 Build NYC Revenue Bonds (St. Francis College Project), Series 2020A, (ii) $24,515,000 Revenue Bonds (St. Francis College Project), Series 2020B (Taxable), (iii) $24,215,000 Revenue Bonds (St. Francis College Project), Series 2020C (Taxable), (iv) $45,000,000 Revenue Bonds (St. Francis College Project), Series 2021 and (v) not to exceed $33,745,000 Public Finance Authority Taxable Revenue Bonds St. Francis College Issue, Series 2020.
- Serving as counsel to the United States Department of Transportation for the TIFIA program.
Education
- Hofstra University, J.D., senior editor, Hofstra Journal of International Business and Law, 2006
- University of Massachusetts, B.A., cum laude, 2003
Admissions
- New York, 2007
- New Jersey, 2006
Courts
- U.S. Dist. Ct., Dist. of New Jersey, 2006
- New York State Supreme Court, 2007
- Supreme Court of New Jersey, 2006
Memberships & Affiliations
Lauren is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the New York State Government Finance Officers Association and the Northeast Women in Public Finance.
- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America 2023: Ones to Watch for Public Finance Law in New York
- Co-Presenter, “Conduit Financing: The Path to P3 Financing” CDFA New York / New Jersey Financing Roundtable Conference, Newark, New Jersey, September 17, 2015.
- Presenter, “Financing a Disaster: Strategies for Local Governments and School Districts”, CDFA Resiliency Panel, New York, New York, September 16, 2014.
- Author, “Reuse, Recycle and Reduce: a New Life for Closed School Buildings,” The Reporter, a publication of the New York State Association of School Business Officials, Volume 61, Number 4, Spring 2014.
- Co-author, “SEC Proposes Registration Requirement for Lawyers Providing Financial Advice to Municipal Entities,” State and Local Law News - ABA Section of State and Local Government Law Newsletter, Vol. 35, No 2, Winter 2012.