Peter Lam is a New York public finance attorney who advises clients on complex tax issues relating to tax-exempt bond issuances that finance affordable housing developments, senior housing developments, universities, colleges, and secondary education institutions, healthcare facilities, and solid waste facilities.
He is especially experienced at bond financings of affordable housing projects, skillfully coordinating bond issuances with the projects’ low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) structures to ensure alignment, efficiency, and regulatory compliance. He has counseled issuers of more than $10 billion of tax-exempt bonds that involved complex pooled financing transactions with parity bond indentures, private placement, and volume cap recycling. He has advised on various issues involving the refinancing of affordable housing projects during construction periods, multiphase projects in and out of Qualified Census Tracts (QCT) and Difficult Development Areas (DDA), and Year 15 options.
Credentials
Education
- New York University School of Law, LL.M., Taxation
- University of Florida Levin College of Law, J.D., with honors
- University of Florida, B.S., with highest honors
Bar Admissions
- Florida
- New York
Court Admissions
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York