Industries

• Finance

Practices

• Commercial Finance
• Construction
• Government Services
• Public Finance

Biography

Denise is a public finance attorney with more than 22 years of experience serving as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, trustee counsel, disclosure counsel and bank or purchaser’s counsel in municipal finance transactions. She is experienced with transactions involving large public and private issuers and the issuance of private activity bonds, as well as governmental bonds that are payable from taxes and other public funds. Denise has experience with financings for airports, transportation, logistics, solid waste, single and multi-family housing, 501c-3 financings, gas and electric utilities, economic development, manufacturing, general obligation, sewer and water, and tax increment financing. She is also experienced with derivatives, privatization and public-private partnership (P3) transactions. Denise has extensive experience with airport and logistics, including financing and leasing and is familiar with FAA airport rules and regulations. Denise has also worked on general, non-finance local government issues, including economic development, tax abatement, annexation, open door and public records issues.

Denise is the head of the public finance team at Frost Brown Todd, as well as the head of the Aviation and Aerospace Industry team.  Denise utilizes her aviation, P3 and economic development experience in both roles, assembling the correct mix of people and skills to best match the client’s needs.

Lawyers have a reputation for being risk-averse and advising clients not to do something, often because the idea is novel. Clients will attest that Denise does everything she can to avoid this. In her experience, if she can get to the reason why the client wants to pursue a particular course of action, there is likely a way to achieve the desired results while working within the legal rules.