Robert D. Labes’ practice focuses on serving as bond counsel, credit enhancement provider’s counsel, underwriter’s counsel, purchaser’s counsel, borrower’s counsel and issuer’s counsel on conduit financing transactions by public bodies for the benefit of private entities, primarily in the areas of multifamily housing, healthcare facilities and other nonprofit facilities. He also has extensive experience working on traditional municipal finance transactions as well as transactions that utilize new markets tax credits (including leveraged structures), historic tax credits and low-income housing tax credits.

Robert is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for his public finance practice.

Представницький досвід

• Serving as bond counsel and developer’s counsel in connection with the US$115 million redevelopment of a multifamily housing project near downtown Cleveland.
• Serving as bond counsel on more than a dozen transactions with local housing authorities and private developers that leveraged HOPE VI, Replacement Housing Factor, Section 202, Neighborhood Stabilization Program and other federal funds with tax-exempt bonds and low-income housing tax credits.
• Serving as bond counsel on a US$93 million financing for the benefit of the Smithsonian Institution. 
• Assisting the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, University Hospitals Health System and other healthcare systems in financing and refinancing more than US$2 billion.
• Representing a community development enterprise (CDE) in connection with obtaining qualified equity investments and making qualified low-income community investments including leveraged structures involving state and federal historic tax credits in addition to new markets tax credits.