Ranked in Band 1 for Public Finance in Chambers USA, Fred’s experience with complex business transactions includes serving as underwriter’s counsel, purchaser’s counsel, bond counsel, and related roles on bond financings for government agencies, financial institutions, investors, and developers. His experience involves a variety of project types, including affordable housing, solid waste facilities, and particular experience negotiating and documenting financial incentives for energy projects. His work has encompassed negotiating and closing transactions involving tax-exempt private activity bonds, New Markets Tax Credits, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, energy credits, opportunity zones, and tax increment financing.

In his pro bono practice, Fred works with a consortium of school districts on Native American lands to structure financing solutions for livable teacher housing, which is sorely lacking in almost all rural school districts on Native American lands in Arizona.