Andréa Caruso Townsend focuses her practice on capital project finance matters with an emphasis on tax exempt bond and tax credit financings for public and private projects including public facilities, affordable multifamily housing, nonprofit educational, senior housing and healthcare facilities, renewable energy and redevelopment matters.

Andréa has more than 15 years of public finance experience including more than a decade as an associate and then partner in a major Ohio law firm, where she served as bond, underwriters’ or tax counsel on a wide variety of public, nonprofit and redevelopment projects.

Andréa is a member of the Real Estate Committee of the California State Bar Association, the Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing and the San Diego Housing Federation. Her speaking credits include programs in the Federation’s Roundtable Series, as well as for the Los Angeles HUD Multifamily Programs Office and the Aging Services of California 2010 Conference. Andréa is a board member and 2009 alumna of Leadership Pasadena. She was honored by Casa Cornelia Law Center, a nonprofit immigration law firm in San Diego, California as its 2010 Distinguished Pro Bono Attorney of the Year.

Reprezentatywne doświadczenie

• Acting as lead bond counsel for the City and County of San Francisco and The Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles for affordable multifamily housing bonds.
• Acting as issuer’s counsel and bond counsel to the California Municipal Finance Authority for nonprofit and housing bond financings, including continuing care retirement communities, educational facilities and acquisition of mobile home parks for affordable housing.
• Acting as structuring counsel and bond counsel for a renewable energy project involving tax exempt bonds, new markets tax credits and other energy incentive programs.
• Acting as borrower’s counsel to a Central Valley hospital system in a new markets tax credits financing for a new ambulatory care center.