Andrew Wang is an associate in the Finance Department, focusing on public finance and tax matters. He regularly serves as counsel to issuers, borrowers, underwriters, and credit enhancers in tax-exempt bond financings for projects spanning diverse industries including education, health care, housing, public infrastructure, solid waste recycling, transportation, and public utilities.
Andrew also has experience representing Government-Sponsored Enterprises in the securitization of tax-exempt affordable housing bonds and other complex debt instruments. In addition, he has represented Community Development Entities in a number of New Markets Tax Credit transactions.
Before joining Ballard Spahr, Andrew served as in-house counsel at a global professional services firm, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions tax matters.
Representative Experience
Representative Matters
- Bond counsel in connection with the financing of several toll roads in Puerto Rico through the issuance of approximately $290 million of tax-exempt bonds
- Bond counsel to a California joint powers authority in connection with its issuance of approximately $1.1 billion of tax-exempt bonds to finance the prepayment of renewable electric energy
- Underwriter’s counsel in a public-private partnership transaction involving the issuance of approximately $1.3 billion of tax-exempt bonds to finance the construction of a toll bridge in Louisiana
- Underwriter’s counsel in connection with the issuance of $750 million of tax-exempt bonds to finance the construction of a research center and a new patient tower for one of the nation’s leading pediatric medical centers
Credentials
Education
Georgia State University College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2019)
Vice President, Asian American Law Student Association
The University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs (B.A., Political Science, 2015)
Languages
Conversational in Mandarin Chinese
Admissions
District of Columbia
Georgia
New York