Jens H. Damgaard

Overview

Jens Damgaard is a public finance lawyer with more than three decades of experience representing school districts, counties, municipalities, and municipal authorities in tax-exempt and structured financings for a variety of public projects. He also represents banks, underwriters, and trustees in connection with bond issues, loans, investment and derivative products, and credit issues.

Representative Matters

• Serves as bond counsel to over 40 Pennsylvania school districts on various general obligation bonds, tax-exempt bank financings, and floating rate notes.
• Bond counsel to numerous municipalities and municipal authorities that are borrowing to construct public water and sewer system improvements, parking facilities, municipal buildings, parks, and other projects.
• Counsel to municipal entities financing projects through grants and loans from the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (PennVest) and the United States Department of Agriculture.
• Advising clients on novel uses of municipal authorities, leases, transfer agreements, and other contracts to generate revenues for general municipal purposes.
• Bond counsel on tax-exempt financings benefitting charitable and other nonprofit entities.