Matt Nichols is an infrastructure finance attorney focusing on municipal bond offerings. He advises lenders, underwriters, issuers, and sponsors on infrastructure financings for the utilities, energy, health care, transportation, and higher education sectors. He also represents both public and private sector participants in public-private infrastructure projects.Matt's practice is largely concentrated on the municipal market, where his clients include colleges and universities, hospital systems, state agencies, and large local governments. He counsels these entities in connection with a range of financing tools, including taxable and tax-exempt loans, publicly offered bond issues, derivatives, and other market products. He also advises on compliance, representing issuers before the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Internal Revenue Service.Matt actively represents commercial and investment banks in their underwriting and lending activities for nonprofit health care providers, public power agencies, cooperative electric power companies, and large local governments. He also works with private sector clients in public-private partnerships and joint ventures, as well as other transactions involving government-owned, privately financed and operated infrastructure, and development projects such as student housing, stadiums, and hotels.ConcentrationsHealth care financeTaxable and tax-exempt public offeringsInfrastructure project financeBank direct tax-exempt lendingConvention centers, hotels, stadiums