Denise Ganz

Senior Counsel

Denise.Ganz@hklaw.com

West Palm Beach +1.561.650.8340

Practices

Financial Services | Tax-Advantaged Project Finance | Public-Private Partnerships | Real Estate Finance

Industry

Financial Services

Denise Ganz

+1.561.650.8340

Overview

Denise Ganz is senior counsel in Holland & Knight's West Palm Beach office.

Ms. Ganz has nearly 40 years of experience in public finance. In addition to representing counties, cities, school districts, community development districts, water management districts, and other special districts as bond counsel and disclosure counsel, Ms. Ganz has represented major investment banking firms as underwriter's counsel. She also has regularly served as borrower's counsel for not-for-profit corporations and developer's counsel to various real estate developers in a variety of tax-exempt financings.

Ms. Ganz has also represented local governments throughout Florida to structure and document innovative finance techniques for capital projects of all types, including public-private partnerships (P3), stadiums, lease-purchase arrangements, and provided advice on the use of special assessments and impact fees. Ms. Ganz has significant experience handling annexation matters, election law issues, legislative drafting, interlocal agreements and the formation of special districts.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Ganz was a partner in an Am Law 200 law firm, where she focused on public finance matters.

Representative Experience

Participated as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, developer's counsel or underwriter's counsel in a significant number of financings involving community development districts, water management districts, and other special districts for residential and mixed-use developments throughout Florida

Served as bond counsel for a large Florida county in connection with several of its airport financings
Served as disclosure counsel for a large Florida county in connection with an airport financing comprised of five series of bonds that include new money bonds, refunding bonds and auction rate bonds
Served as bond counsel and underwriter's counsel in connection with bonds issued by or for a port authority
Served as general counsel for an expressway authority in connection with bond issues for various toll road improvements

Participated as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter's counsel in numerous covenant to budget and appropriate transactions

Significant experience in the area of water, wastewater and stormwater financing, including the ability of issuers to levy and pledge impact fees in connection therewith
Drafted ordinances levying water and wastewater impact fees and stormwater fees

Served as counsel in connection with a number of bond issues secured by sales taxes and tourist development taxes, including as bond counsel to major Florida counties

Served as counsel in connection with a variety of tax increment financings, including as bond counsel to a multidistrict community redevelopment agency in Florida
Experienced in drafting community redevelopment agency legislation

Served as counsel in connection with certificate of participations (COPs) issued by cities, counties and school districts throughout Florida

Experienced as counsel in connection with conduit financings of all types

Experienced as counsel in connection with education financings of all types, including school district financings, charter school financings and higher education financings

Assisted a large Florida county with financing its convention center and related convention center hotel and garage projects

Served as placement agent's counsel for a proposed arena for a new professional sports franchise to be financed through state sales tax bonds
Served as bond counsel to a special district which was to include a sports arena, and drafted legislation establishing the district, including provisions relating to the issuance of bonds
Served as special finance counsel to a Florida sports team in drafting legislation and providing advice in the team's effort to secure tax-exempt financing for the construction of a baseball stadium

Participated in numerous bond issues which were secured by credit enhancement of various types, include municipal bond insurance and letters of credit
Drafted and negotiate insurance agreements with municipal bond insurers in connection with bond issues
Drafted and negotiated interlocal agreements, including complex multiparty agreements involving multiple community development districts

Served as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and borrower's counsel in connection with a variety of taxable transactions, including relating to financing unfunded pension obligations

Experienced in municipal equipment leasing transactions ranging from small vendor leases to public offerings involving large equipment acquisition programs