Michael W. Graff Jr

Michael has served as bond, underwriter's, bank, borrower's, issuer's or trustee's counsel on dozens of tax-exempt bond financings in Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, Wisconsin and Idaho.

He has extensive experience in all aspects of tax-exempt financings for small manufacturing companies; private, nonprofit elementary and secondary schools; nonprofit association headquarters; college and university student housing facilities; hospitals and healthcare facilities; multifamily affordable housing projects (including low-income housing tax credits); solid waste disposal facilities; port facilities; water and waste authorities; community development authorities and other land-based special taxing districts; road and rail transportation projects; and various other borrowers, governmental issuers and their projects.

He is the co-author (with William J. Strickland) of "Financing Virginia's Local Governments" in the Virginia Local Government Attorneys' Handbook. A former trial lawyer, Michael has brought numerous judicial proceedings to establish the validity of municipal bonds.

He was a Parkinson scholar at Duke University School of Law and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa at the College of William & Mary.

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Areas of Practice 1) Banking and Finance, 2) Corporate Finance and Capital Markets, 3) Public Finance, 4) Corporate and 5) New Markets Tax Credits
Law School Duke University School of Law, J.D., 1994
Education College of William & Mary, A.B., 1991
Bar Member / Association Virginia State Bar Association
Most recent firm McGuireWoods LLP
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