With over 20 years practicing exclusively in the area of public finance, Brad Neal provides breadth and depth of experience to each of his clients. Since joining the Firm in 2000 and becoming a partner in 2008, Brad has worked as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter’s counsel on hundreds of municipal financings over a wide spectrum of types of financings, including land secured, multifamily housing, school district general obligation, property assessed clean energy (“PACE”), general fund and Marks‑Roos pooled financings.
In particular, Brad is recognized as one of the leading attorneys in land secured finance in California. Since 2002, Brad has worked on hundreds of land secured bond issues as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter’s counsel, as well as hundreds of community facilities district formations, annexations and change proceedings. Brad represents cities, counties, special districts and school districts throughout California as bond counsel and disclosure counsel in land secured financing’s. Clients have come to appreciate and rely upon Brad’s legal acumen, creativity and willingness to be a “team player” with the other financing team members. For example, Brad has worked on all of Eastern Municipal Water District’s community facilities district formations and land secured bond issues since 2002, one of the most prolific if not the most prolific community facilities district bond issuers in the entire State of California.