Albert A. del Castillo serves as Squire Sanders Florida practice coordinator. He has an extensive public finance practice and has worked on bond issues throughout the state of Florida and in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. He has been involved as bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel and disclosure counsel in a variety of issues including general obligation, infrastructure, electric, water and sewer, resource recovery, healthcare, sports facilities, educational facilities, special assessment, community development district and industrial development financing. Albert has also served as letter of credit bank counsel and as trustee’s counsel.

Over the years, Albert has served as bond counsel on many innovative and complex financings. For example, he served as bond counsel on a US$750 million financing by Citizens Property Insurance Corporation that was selected as The Bond Buyer’s 2004 national Deal of the Year. He served as bond counsel to Broward County on a US$126.6 million passenger facility charge convertible lien airport bond financing for which Broward County was awarded the Government Finance Officers Association Award for Excellence in Government Finance.

Представницький досвід

• Playing a primary role in authoring legislative amendments that permitted a city to issue more than US$472 million in special insurance assessment revenue bonds and serving as bond counsel on the subsequent bond issue in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew.
• Serving as special counsel to the Florida Residential Property and Casualty Joint Underwriting Association (JUA) in connection with US$1.5 billion line of credit financing that provided liquidity funding to the JUA, a statutorily created property and casualty insurer of last resort in the state of Florida and representing JUA in connection with multiple renewals of the line of credit.
• Serving as bond counsel for US$500 million of taxable corporate notes issued by the JUA.
• Serving as special counsel, including assistance in drafting the necessary implementing legislation, in connection with the combination of the JUA and the Florida Windstorm Underwriting Association into Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens).
• Serving as bond counsel on more than US$12.5 billion of insurance assessment and premium-backed bonds issued by Citizens, including the US$3.05 billion taxable High-Risk Account Senior Secured Bonds, Series 2006A, which at the time was Florida’s largest new-money municipal bond issue.
• Serving as bond counsel on more than US$3.8 billion of senior notes issued by the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico.
• Serving as bond counsel on more than US$4.5 billion of tax and revenue anticipation notes issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
• Serving as bond counsel on more than US$3.4 billion of general obligation new money and refunding bonds issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
• Serving as bond counsel on more than US$4.5 billion of power revenue and power revenue refunding bonds issued by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.
• Serving as bond counsel on approximately US$1.5 billion of transportation revenue and revenue refunding bonds issued by the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority.
• Serving as bond counsel on more than US$2.3 billion of revenue and revenue refunding bonds issued by the Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority.
• Serving as bond counsel on more than US$306 million in revenue and revenue refunding bonds issued by the Puerto Rico Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Medical and Environmental Control Facilities Financing Authority for multiple higher education, healthcare and other projects.
• Serving as bond counsel on more than US$1.1 billion in airport system revenue and revenue refunding bonds/passenger facilities charges convertible lien bonds issued by Broward County, Florida.
• Serving as bond counsel on more than US$720 million of general obligation, revenue and special obligation bonds issued by the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida for various types of projects and for refunding purposes.
• Serving as bond counsel and disclosure counsel on more than US$810 million of general obligation, limited ad valorem, revenue and special obligation bonds issued by the City of Miami, Florida for various types of projects and for refunding purposes.
• Serving as bond counsel and disclosure counsel on more than US$1.09 billion of general obligation, revenue, special obligation and special assessment bonds issued by the City of Port St. Lucie, Florida for various types of projects and/or for refunding purposes.
• Serving as bond counsel on more than US$887 million of hospital revenue and revenue refunding bonds issued by the South Broward Hospital District (Florida).
• Serving as bond counsel or underwriters counsel on more than 50 Florida community development district special assessment bond financings.

Honors and Distinctions

• Fellow, American College of Bond Counsel.
• Listed in Chambers USA as a recommended lawyer in the area of “Banking and Finance; Public Finance” since 2006 and as a “Band 1” recommended lawyer since 2011.
• Listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2006.
• Listed in Florida Super Lawyers since 2007.
• Listed in Florida Trend magazine’s Legal Elite for public finance and bonds in 2011, 2007 and 2006.
• Named “Top Dealmaker of 2011” in the Public Finance category by the Daily Business Review.
• Named “Top Dealmaker of 2008” in the Public Finance category by the Daily Business Review.
• Named “Top Dealmaker of 2007” in the Corporate Finance category by the Miami Daily Business Review.
• Named one of South Florida’s “Most Effective Lawyers” in 2006 by the Miami Daily Business Review.
• Received the South Florida Business Journal/Citibank Key Partner award in 2006.
• AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Memberships

• Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers.
• Member, Georgetown University Board of Regents.
• Emeritus member, Georgetown University Law Center Law Alumni Board.
• Member, Archdiocese of Miami Finance Council.
• Past member, Memorial Hospital Foundation Board and Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Board.
• Past president and member, Education Fund – a 501(c)(3) organization committed to providing private sector support to enhance the quality of public education in Miami-Dade County.
• Alternate member, Original Charter Committee for the incorporation of the Town of Miami Lakes (extensively involved in drafting the original Town Charter).