When California schools seek to raise funding to build, renovate or modernize their facilities, Nic Heuer’s sound advice and practical knowledge ensure successful financings that avoid future risk and preserve educational resources. Nic knows how California school districts and community colleges operate and how they are funded. Because he’s attuned to the challenges school districts face, he focuses on the financing options that achieve both educational and facilities objectives and sustain legal and regulatory compliance post-issuance.

Having served as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, and underwriter’s counsel on over 260 financings for K-12 school districts, community college districts, and financial institutions, there are few legal and financing challenges Nic hasn’t helped his clients overcome. He has guided school districts, community college districts and underwriters through the issuance of general obligation bond financings, certificates of participation, lease revenue bonds, and other lease-based financings, tax and revenue anticipation notes, and workforce housing financings, all accomplished through myriad financing scenarios and sale methods, from public competitive bid and negotiated sales to private placements.

School districts rely on Nic to provide the tools they need to successfully accomplish a bond financing and meet their obligations to bondholders and investors so that they can maintain their key focus on educating students. Nic’s forward looking approach and extensive knowledge of the current and developing legal landscape, including the securities and regulatory requirements associated with the issuance of debt securities, helps his clients craft protocols to avoid overly burdensome obligations that could otherwise strain their personnel and resources in the future.

Credentials

Education
  • Georgetown University, J.D., 2008
  • University of California, San Diego, B.A., economics, cum laude, 2004
  • American Bar Association
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • National Associate of Bond Lawyers
  • San Francisco Bar Association
  • California