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Earle R. Taylor, III

Earle R. Taylor, III

Partner

Atlantic Station
201 17th Street NW
Suite 1700
Atlanta, GA 30363
earle.taylor@nelsonmullins.com

For more than 35 years, Earle has participated in public finance transactions raising billions of dollars in more than 15 states and territories, as well as for Native American tribes, to finance, among other things, airports; roads; mass transit facilities; water, sewer, gas, and electric utilities; solid waste facilities; public and private primary and secondary educational...

For more than 35 years, Earle has participated in public finance transactions raising billions of dollars in more than 15 states and territories, as well as for Native American tribes, to finance, among other things, airports; roads; mass transit facilities; water, sewer, gas, and electric utilities; solid waste facilities; public and private primary and secondary educational facilities; higher educational and research facilities; healthcare facilities; elderly, multifamily, and single family housing; hotels; conference centers; convention facilities; broadband; public buildings and infrastructure; park, recreational, and sports facilities; economic development projects; and downtown redevelopment projects.

Earle has served as an expert witness for the Securities and Exchange Commission in a landmark civil enforcement proceeding involving municipal securities and as a consulting expert to the Securities and Exchange Commission for civil enforcement proceedings involving municipal securities. He served on the State of Georgia Bond Allocation Technical Advisory Committee when the original bond allocation plan for the State of Georgia was developed in the mid-1980s and presently serves on the Advisory Board and as a visiting instructor for the Center for State and Local Finance of The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies of Georgia State University. He frequently drafts and consults on public finance-related legislation proposed by the Georgia General Assembly. Examples of legislation that he had significant involvement with include the statute authorizing the use of derivative contracts by the State of Georgia and its local governmental units, the statute authorizing the use of commercial paper by the State of Georgia and its local governmental units, the constitutional amendment reauthorizing community redevelopment and authorizing the use of educational taxes to secure tax allocation bonds of local governmental units, the Georgia Higher Education Facilities Authority Act, and amendments to the Development Authorities Law and the Urban Redevelopment Law.

Earle has served as a panelist or speaker on public finance issues at events sponsored by the National Association of Bond Lawyers, The Bond Buyer, the Georgia Government Finance Officers Association, the Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, the Georgia Economic Developers Association, the University System of Georgia Lawyers Group, the Society for College and University Planning, the International Municipal Lawyers Association, the Health Care Financial Managers Association, the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, the Georgia Association of School Business Officials, and the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants. He co-chaired in 2014 and 2016 The Seminar Group’s Public/Private Finance and Development seminar.

Earle passed the Uniform Certified Public Accountant examination in May 1981.

Earle R. Taylor, III

facilities; higher educational and research facilities; healthcare facilities; elderly, multifamily, and single family housing; hotels; conference centers; convention facilities; broadband; public buildings and infrastructure; park, recreational, and sports facilities; economic development projects; and downtown redevelopment projects.

Earle has served as an expert witness for the Securities and Exchange Commission in a landmark civil enforcement proceeding involving municipal securities and as a consulting expert to the Securities and Exchange Commission for civil enforcement proceedings involving municipal securities. He served on the State of Georgia Bond Allocation Technical Advisory Committee when the original bond allocation plan for the State of Georgia was developed in the mid-1980s and presently serves on the Advisory Board and as a visiting instructor for the Center for State and Local Finance of The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies of Georgia State University. He frequently drafts and consults on public finance-related legislation proposed by the Georgia General Assembly. Examples of legislation that he had significant involvement with include the statute authorizing the use of derivative contracts by the State of Georgia and its local governmental units, the statute authorizing the use of commercial paper by the State of Georgia and its local governmental units, the constitutional amendment reauthorizing community redevelopment and authorizing the use of educational taxes to secure tax allocation bonds of local governmental units, the Georgia Higher Education Facilities Authority Act, and amendments to the Development Authorities Law and the Urban Redevelopment Law.

Earle has served as a panelist or speaker on public finance issues at events sponsored by the National Association of Bond Lawyers, The Bond Buyer, the Georgia Government Finance Officers Association, the Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, the Georgia Economic Developers Association, the University System of Georgia Lawyers Group, the Society for College and University Planning, the International Municipal Lawyers Association, the Health Care Financial Managers Association, the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, the Georgia Association of School Business Officials, and the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants. He co-chaired in 2014 and 2016 The Seminar Group’s Public/Private Finance and Development seminar.

Earle passed the Uniform Certified Public Accountant examination in May 1981.

For more than 35 years, Earle has participated in public finance transactions raising billions of dollars in more than 15 states and territories, as well as for Native American tribes, to finance, among other things, airports; roads; mass transit facilities; water, sewer, gas, and electric utilities; solid waste facilities; public and private primary and secondary educational... facilities; higher educational and research facilities; healthcare facilities; elderly, multifamily, and single family housing; hotels; conference centers; convention facilities; broadband; public buildings and infrastructure; park, recreational, and sports facilities; economic development projects; and downtown redevelopment projects.

Earle has served as an expert witness for the Securities and Exchange Commission in a landmark civil enforcement proceeding involving municipal securities and as a consulting expert to the Securities and Exchange Commission for civil enforcement proceedings involving municipal securities. He served on the State of Georgia Bond Allocation Technical Advisory Committee when the original bond allocation plan for the State of Georgia was developed in the mid-1980s and presently serves on the Advisory Board and as a visiting instructor for the Center for State and Local Finance of The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies of Georgia State University. He frequently drafts and consults on public finance-related legislation proposed by the Georgia General Assembly. Examples of legislation that he had significant involvement with include the statute authorizing the use of derivative contracts by the State of Georgia and its local governmental units, the statute authorizing the use of commercial paper by the State of Georgia and its local governmental units, the constitutional amendment reauthorizing community redevelopment and authorizing the use of educational taxes to secure tax allocation bonds of local governmental units, the Georgia Higher Education Facilities Authority Act, and amendments to the Development Authorities Law and the Urban Redevelopment Law.

Earle has served as a panelist or speaker on public finance issues at events sponsored by the National Association of Bond Lawyers, The Bond Buyer, the Georgia Government Finance Officers Association, the Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, the Georgia Economic Developers Association, the University System of Georgia Lawyers Group, the Society for College and University Planning, the International Municipal Lawyers Association, the Health Care Financial Managers Association, the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, the Georgia Association of School Business Officials, and the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants. He co-chaired in 2014 and 2016 The Seminar Group’s Public/Private Finance and Development seminar.

Earle passed the Uniform Certified Public Accountant examination in May 1981.

Experience

The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.

  • Bond counsel for the City of Atlanta's $1.1 billion water and wastewater bond issue in 1999, in which a groundbreaking Master Bond Ordinance was developed, and for the subsequent issuance of approximately $3.1 billion of revenue bonds under that ordinance for Atlanta's water and sewer system.
  • Underwriter's counsel for an $800 million installment purchase revenue bond issue in 2002 for the benefit of the Greenville County School District in South Carolina and for approximately $2.3 billion of similar installment purchase revenue bond issues for the benefit of school districts in South Carolina through 2006.
  • Underwriter's counsel or disclosure counsel for approximately $3 billion of “Garvee” bonds issued by the State Road and Tollway Authority for the benefit of the State of Georgia Department of Transportation.
  • Disclosure counsel to the State of Georgia for its General Obligation Bonds.
  • Bond counsel for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport's Consolidated Rental Car Facility and Automated People Mover System Maintenance Facility.
  • Special counsel to the Georgia Municipal Association for its Georgia Local Government Grantor Trust, securitizing separate equipment leases for 30 separate local governmental units, and for 30 separate interest rate swap agreements to hedge interest rate risk on the equipment leases.
  • Bond counsel to the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority and designed loan documents for its several pooled loan programs for local governments, including an innovative financing program to securitize those local government loans.
  • Bond counsel and disclosure counsel to the Georgia Higher Education Facilities Authority for its pooled bond program to benefit units of the University System of Georgia.
  • Counsel to an international heavy equipment manufacturer to design and draft equipment leases for use with local governments in all 50 states.
  • Bond counsel for numerous economic development or downtown redevelopment projects involving innovative financing structures, including public-private partnerships, revenue bonds secured by payments in lieu of ad valorem property taxes, in order to replicate tax increment financing, and the use of intergovernmental contracts to secure revenue bonds issued by Urban Redevelopment Agencies, in order to finance governmental facilities.
  • Special counsel to the City of Atlanta in the design and financing of its Housing Opportunity program.
  • Special counsel to the City of Forest Park, Georgia, the Urban Redevelopment Agency of the City of Forest Park, and the Development Authority of the City of Forest Park, Georgia in financing the acquisition of a closed military installation known as Fort Gillem from the United States Army for redevelopment as a logistics center.
  • Special counsel to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia for the design of its program to privatize student housing.
  • Counsel to ACS Infrastructure Development in negotiating design, build, finance, operate, and maintain concession contract with the State of Georgia Department of Transportation for tolled managed express lanes.
  • Counsel to Downtown Marietta Development Authority, LaGrange Development Authority, and College Park Business and Industrial Development Authority in negotiating design, build, finance, operate, and maintain concession contracts for conference centers, conference center hotels, and convention center hotels.
  • Special counsel to State of Georgia agencies and authorities for installment purchase financing of energy savings property.
  • Special counsel to Portman Holdings in negotiating local property tax incentives for a high performance computing center known as Coda, an approximately $450 million mixed use facility with The Georgia Institute of Technology as the anchor tenant, to foster collaboration between The Georgia Institute of Technology and the technology industry.
  • Counsel to joint venture of Skanska USA Civil Inc. and Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc. in negotiating design, build, and finance contract with the State of Georgia Department of Transportation for the reconstruction of the interchange of Interstate 285 and State Road 400.
  • Bond counsel and underwriter's counsel for The Cauley Creek Water Reclamation Facility, a privately-owned wastewater treatment plant to treat wastewater to reuse standards on a wholesale basis for Fulton County, Georgia.
  • Counsel to SK Battery America, Inc. in implementing incentives for an approximately $1.6 billion electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility anticipated to create 2,000 new jobs in Jackson County, Georgia.
  • Special Counsel to Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission for federal aid programs for state and local governments.

Education

  • Vanderbilt University Law School, JD (1984)
    • American Jurisprudence Award in Estate Planning
  • Clemson University, BS, summa cum laude (1980)
    • James A. Turner Award in Federal Taxation
    • South Carolina CPA Society Scholarship
    • College of Commerce and Industry Blazer Award
    • Phi Kappa Phi
    • Beta Gamma Sigma
    • Omicron Delta Epsilon

Admissions

  • Georgia

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