David R. Groose, Partner

David R. Groose practices in the Firm's Public Finance Group. He has extensive experience serving as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriter's counsel and special tax counsel representing a full range of governmental issuers and financial institutions, with an emphasis on Wisconsin school districts. To date, Dave has worked on over 500 bond and note issues totaling over $8 billion. Examples of some of his recent work include:

• Bond Counsel to Wisconsin school districts on their long-term capital and short-term cash flow financings.
• Counsel to school districts on their statutory and campaign finance compliance in connection with political referenda.
• Bond Counsel to counties and other municipalities on general obligation and revenue financings, including private activity bonds.
• Underwriter's counsel to a national broker-dealer on charter school financings.
• Counsel to municipal clients in complying with a national Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement initiative, including negotiating terms of a resulting enforcement order.