Bruce Graham
Partner
Goodwin Procter
Bruce Graham, a partner in Goodwin Procter’s Business Law Department and a member of the Real Estate, REITs & Real Estate Capital Markets Group, specializes in the financing and refinancing of a wide variety of public and private projects, including all forms of public infrastructure, utilities, multi-family housing projects, single-family master-planned communities, industrial, manufacturing, transportation, and recreational facilities, hospitals and other non-profit facilities, and commercial and residential redevelopment projects.
Mr. Graham has served as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriter’s counsel, property owner’s counsel and conduit borrower’s counsel in tax-exempt and taxable financings involving cities, counties, redevelopment agencies, special districts and joint powers authorities. These financings have utilized general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, certificates of participation, tax and revenue anticipation notes, assessment bonds, tax allocation bonds, special tax bonds and conduit revenue bonds for non-governmental borrowers. He has also represented municipal issuers, institutional investors and property owners in defaulted bond workout programs.
Mr. Graham is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and the Urban Land Institute. He also contributes articles to industry newsletters and periodicals, including his most recent article entitled "Has the Financial Meltdown Killed Municipal Finance," published in The Journal of Structured Finance (Winter 2009).
Prior to joining Goodwin Procter, Mr. Graham was a partner in the Century City office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.
Mr. Graham has been regularly selected by his peers as a "Southern California Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) and is included in the 2008 edition of Legal 500. He served as Bond and Disclosure Counsel to the City of Oxnard on the City’s Gas Tax Revenue Certificates of Participation (2007 Street Improvement Program), which received The Bond Buyer’s "Far West Deal of the Year" award in 2008. Mr. Graham also served as Special Counsel to the California State Treasurer on the State of California’s $11 billion Economic Recovery Bonds, Series 2004, which received The Bond Buyer’s "Far West Deal of the Year" award in 2005.