Firm Profile

McManimon & Scotland, L.L.C. is a multi-practice firm for private and government clients with a long history of specializing in public finance law. The firm was founded in 1971 with a specialty in providing bond counsel services to municipalities, counties and authorities in New Jersey . Since then, while the firm has continued to stay at the forefront of bond counsel work for public New Jersey entities, the expertise of the firm has expanded to include school district finance, redevelopment, special tax, environmental and litigation practice areas, among others.

McManimon & Scotland, L.L.C. is one of the leading firms in the nation in the area of public finance. In 2006, McManimon & Scotland, L.L.C. was ranked by Thompson Financial Group within the top thirty-five national bond counsel firms both in volume of issues and total dollars issued and in the first quarter of 2007, the firm ranked in the top 10 firms nationally. The firm has regularly been rated the number one bond counsel firm in New Jersey for total issues and total dollars issued. The partners in the firm's public finance practice have over two decades of experience in providing Bond Counsel services to governmental units and attorneys from McManimon & Scotland, L.L.C. regularly participate as panelists in seminars and workshops addressing municipal finance.

In addition to its bond counsel work, McManimon & Scotland, L.L.C. has, in recent years, expanded its practice to include redevelopment law. The firm has provided legal assistance for commercial and recreational redevelopment projects as well as for market and affordable housing projects. The attorneys at McManimon & Scotland, L.L.C. have acquired expertise in all of the areas of redevelopment law, including planning, transactional, financial, tax, payments in lieu of taxes and dispute resolution.

Another area of recent expansion includes the firm's environmental practice. McManimon & Scotland, L.L.C.'s environmental experience is critical to its successful infrastructure practice especially in the areas of solid waste, water supply and distribution, wastewater treatment, hazardous waste management and recycling. In connection with its environmental practice, McManimon & Scotland, L.L.C.'s public utility and energy practice spans the electric, gas, water, sewer, solid waste, and energy conservation industries. This experience includes management advice and involvement in negotiations, permitting, regulatory compliance matters and environmental litigation.

In support of these practice areas, McManimon & Scotland, L.L.C. has an active and sophisticated tax practice dealing regularly with complex issues of federal and state income taxation, predominantly for issuers, underwriters and developers. The firm also has the capacity to handle a wide range of complicated and challenging litigation matters. Our areas of concentration include employment, public utilities, public contract, governmental, environmental, banking, corporate, commercial, business, tax, and insurance, as well as arbitration, mediation and alternate dispute resolution proceedings.

As a firm that offers more than public finance experience, McManimon & Scotland, L.L.C. also has the expertise in representing various lenders and banks in commercial real estate and asset-based transactions, and other private clients in all aspects of real property rights.

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