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Andrea Bacon is a partner in the Public Finance Department of Chapman and Cutler LLP, and has worked exclusively in the field of municipal finance since 1979, when she joined the firm. Ms. Bacon acts as bond counsel, counsel to the underwriter and counsel to banks providing credit enhancement or liquidity on a variety of public financings in many states, including general obligation financings, certificates of participation in municipal lease transactions, revenue obligation financings for state universities, industrial development revenue bond financings, qualified 501(c)(3) revenue bond financings, exempt facility financings (including airports, pollution control facilities and sewage and solid waste facilities), and other types of public financings, including unsecured, secured and credit-enhanced public and private offerings. She has expertise in all variations of variable rate financing for tax-exempt transactions. Selected recent representations include: Bond counsel to the University of Illinois, Northern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University, Western Illinois University, Eastern Illinois University, Illinois State University and Chicago State University Bond counsel to several large, midwestern, investor-owned utilities in connection with the issuance of refundings and restructurings of pollution control revenue bonds Bond counsel and underwriter's counsel for financings of solid waste disposal facilities for investor-owned utilities, waste disposal companies, oil companies and chemical companies Bank counsel to national banks in connection with the issuance of letters of credit or liquidity facilities securing traditional municipal financings as well as municipal conduit bond issues for corporations. | 