Lona Valentine concentrates her practice in the area of tax and financial analysis, handling arbitrage rebates and providing guidance on federal tax topics related to tax-favored bond financings for governmental and conduit financings.
Ms. Valentine has worked on a wide variety of municipal financing transactions including projects for traditional governmental infrastructure, hospital expansion, continuing care retirement communities, cultural facilities, small issue manufacturing and exempt facilities. Ms. Valentine works with issuers and conduit borrowers to address all of the federal tax issues from the inception of a financing throughout the entire term of the financing and has a wide array of experience in refundings, derivative products, multipurpose allocations and private use analyses.