Brian Walsh is a partner in the Public Finance Department, Practice Leader of the P3/Infrastructure Group, and a member of the Energy and Project Finance, Health Care, Transactional Finance, and Higher Education Groups. Mr. Walsh has acted as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, borrower's counsel, trustee's counsel, and counsel to banks providing credit enhancement in taxable and tax-exempt financings for health care facilities, colleges and universities, sports arenas, multifamily housing projects, geothermal facilities, cogeneration facilities, secondary schools, and industrial development projects.
Mr. Walsh has a wide range of experience in developing and financing projects domestically and in the Caribbean and the Middle East. He has represented project sponsors and developers in the development, financing, and acquisition of refineries, power plants, and waste-to-energy facilities, and in the development of geothermal and sludge disposal facilities.
Mr. Walsh's representations have involved using senior and subordinated tax-exempt securities, along with commercial bank debt and leveraged leases, to finance a domestic power plant, and taxable bonds, tax-exempt bonds, and bank debt to finance a power plant in the Caribbean. He has extensive experience negotiating intercreditor arrangements among senior creditors, mezzanine creditors, and subordinated creditors.
Before joining Ballard Spahr, Mr. Walsh served as a professional staff member on the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and as a legislative assistant to the late U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles of Florida.
Representative Matters
- Serves as special counsel to the Office of the Attorney General for Privatization Matters of the Commonwealth of Virginia during the Virginia Department of Transportation's I-95 High Occupancy Toll Lanes Project
- Serves as special counsel for an institutional investment firm that trades municipal bonds for its own account
- Represents the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in assessing the privatization of the Pennsylvania turnpike
- Represents the investment bankers in multiple financings for one of the nation's most prestigious medical, educational, and research institutions
- Acts as special finance counsel to a major medical school in Philadelphia
- Assisted a financially troubled urban academic medical center in the Midwest
- Served as bond counsel to a multistate nonprofit health care system
- Serves as counsel in financings for subacute-care facilities, such as nursing homes, as well as assisted-living and retirement communities
- Represented a group of Pennsylvania counties in negotiations for providing mental health and drug and alcohol rehabilitation services through a managed-care organization