Michael Charlebois is an associate in the firm’s Finance Department who focuses his practice on public finance, project finance and public-private partnership (P3) matters. Mike has experience serving as underwriter’s counsel, bond counsel, disclosure counsel and purchaser’s counsel in all types of municipal bond financings, as well as underwriter’s counsel and special tax counsel on project financings for solid waste disposal facilities and infrastructure projects. Mike has also advised public entities and lenders on transportation, infrastructure and energy P3 projects.
Mike focuses his work on conduit revenue bond financings for nonprofit organizations such as charter schools and private schools, cultural centers, higher education institutions and hospitals; project financings; student housing projects; and P3 projects. Mike has been involved in financings in over 15 states and Washington, D.C.
Professional Highlights
Professional Activities
National Association of Bond Lawyers
Recognition & Accomplishments
The Best Lawyers in America “Ones to Watch,” – Public Finance Law (Los Angeles), 2021, 2022, 2024
Speaking Engagements
Moderator, “Financing Student Housing,” Northern California Student Housing & Higher Education, San Francisco, California, February 10, 2022
Speaker, "Student Housing: Solutions for Student Success, Equity and Affordable Housing," Community College League of California 2018 Annual Convention, Rancho Mirage, California, November 15, 2017
Credentials
Education
University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D. 2015)
Executive Technology Editor, Staff Editor; Hastings Law Journal
State University of New York at Albany, Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy (M.A. 2011)
State University of New York at Buffalo (B.A. 2006)
Admissions
California