Randolph A. "Randy" DelFranco - Lawyer in New York, NY

Randolph A. DelFranco practices in the areas of corporate, public andtribal finance, securities, mergers and acquisitions and investment managementfunds.

Mr. DelFranco has extensive experience in high-yield (Rule 144A)privately-placed debt offerings, IPO and secondary equity offerings, domesticand cross-border mergers and acquisitions, tender offers and other SecuritiesAct and Exchange Act matters. He also is experienced in the formation ofdomestic and offshore investment management funds.

Mr. DelFranco has significant experience representing Indian tribes andinvestment banks in securities offerings to finance the development ofentertainment and casino facilities and for «essential governmentalpurposes.» Mr. DelFranco has worked on financings for tribes in New York,northern and southern California, New Mexico, Alabama and Minnesota,totaling approximately $3 billion. Mr. DelFranco assisted in obtaining one ofthe few positive private letter rulings from the IRS interpreting the essentialgovernmental purpose test to allow a client to borrow $40 million on atax-exempt basis for tribal infrastructure. Mr. DelFranco has lectured onnumerous topics relating to Native American finance.

Mr. DelFranco has significant high-end public finance and public-privatepartnership (P3) experience having represented well-known issuers of tax-exemptbonds such as the Washington Public Power Supply System, the New York CityMunicipal Water Finance Authority, the New York State Housing Finance Agency,the New York State Thruway Authority and the City of Chicago. He alsorepresented Orange County, California as special bond counsel during and afterits bankruptcy. Mr. DelFranco has represented many of the major investmentbanks in New York, such as Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, BearStearns, UBS Painewebber, and Lehman Brothers. As bond counsel and underwriters'counsel, he has worked on long-term bond financings totaling over$25,000,000,000.

Mr. DelFranco has been finance counsel with respect to numerous P3transactions, such as the $730 million financing for the construction of theU.S. Patent Trademark headquarters in Alexandria, Va., the $450 millionfinancing for new military housing at Fort Benning in Georgia, and the sale for$850 million of the New York Power Authority's nuclear power plants to a privateowner.

Mr. DelFranco has lectured on a variety of finance and securities law topicssuch as the securities law aspects of the use of the Internet, Regulation FD andcorporate governance matters, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.