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Dan Johnson is a partner and for many years served as the Practice Group Leader for the firm’s Public Finance Department. He has been practicing law since 1975 when he joined Chapman and Cutler LLP. He has handled financings for hundreds of Illinois School Districts and has completed thousands of school district borrowing transactions aggregating many billions of dollars. On January 1, 2008, he became the Firm’s second Chief Operating Partner. He continues to have an active Public Finance practice. Mr. Johnson has also served as bond counsel for a wide variety of other municipal transactions involving numerous types of municipal issuers. In addition to all types of financings for elementary and secondary education systems, Mr. Johnson’s areas of particular concentration include legislative drafting, tax and state aid anticipation obligations, double-barreled alternate bonds, limited tax bonds, debt and lease certificates, advance refundings and public building commission bonds. Mr. Johnson was named in the Bonds/Government Finance section as an "Illinois Super Lawyer" in 2008. | 