Charles S. Henck is a partner in the Public Finance Department and a member of the Energy and Project Finance, International, Tax, Tax Credits, and P3/Infrastructure Groups, and the Climate Change and Sustainability Initiative. Before joining Ballard Spahr, Mr. Henck was an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service.
Mr. Henck has counseled clients on a variety of tax aspects of municipal and corporate financing for utility, industrial, and infrastructure facilities. He has served as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, special tax counsel, and company counsel in revenue bond, private activity bond, general obligation bond, and leveraged lease financings. He has extensive experience in the issuance and restructuring of project- and revenue-based tax-exempt financings for solid waste disposal and resource recovery facilities. He also has been involved as counsel to the borrower and the issuer in a number of IRS audits of bonds issued to finance utility, industrial, and infrastructure facilities, and is a frequent lecturer and panelist in national conferences on federal tax matters relating to financings of these facilities.