Russell C. Trice is a Senior Associate in the firm's Los Angeles Office.  He has worked on more than $25 billion aggregate principal amount of municipal and nonprofit financings.  Russ focuses his practice on public finance matters as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, disclosure counsel, borrower's counsel and bank counsel in connection with the issuance of:

• general obligation bonds;
• revenue bonds;
• commercial paper;
• certificates of participation and lease revenue bonds;
• tax and revenue anticipation notes;
• tax allocation bonds;
• multi-family and single family housing bonds;
• empowerment zone bonds;
• assessment district bonds; and
• tobacco settlement securitizations.

Russ has substantial experience in connection with 501(c)(3) organizations, including financings for housing, schools, museums and other charitable organizations. He also has substantial experience serving as special counsel to domestic and foreign banks providing liquidity and credit support for municipal and nonprofit financings.

Recent matters include representations:

• As bond and disclosure counsel to nonprofit organizations in connection with tax-exempt financings for large office complexes
• As underwriter's counsel in connection various types of transactions for a variety of investment banks, including with respect to a $200,000,000 water revenue bond financing
• As special counsel to a national banking association in connection with a major motion picture trade group
• As borrower's counsel in connection with the creation of a health benefit trust

• American Bar Foundation, Lifetime Fellow
• State Bar of California

 Firm Committees:

• Practice Development
• Recruiting, former member

• Co-author with Donald Hunt, Juan Redín and Danny Kim, "California Assembly Bill 1484 Alters Dissolution of Redevelopment Agencies; Imposes Requirements on Cities/Counties," Fulbright Briefing, July 10, 2012
• Co-author and Jon Guz, "New Municipal Legislation Circulating in Congress, Recent Hearings Reveal Market Enthusiasm," California Society of Municipal Finance Officers MiniNews, June 2009, at 14-17
• "Stimulating the Municipal Bond Market, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Build America Bonds," California Society of Municipal Finance Officers MiniNews, April 2009, at 16-17
• Co-Author with Robert E. Lutz, "NAFTA at Five and the Loewen Case: Is NAFTA the Blood Relative of Lady Justice or the Angel of Death for State Sovereignty?" Translex Transnational Law Exchange, Volume 2, No. 4, 1999
• "Helms-Burton: Canada and Mexico v. The United States - Blocking Legislation is an Unwise Barrier Between Friends," Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas, Volume IV, No. 1, 1997

1998 - J.D., Southwestern University School of Law
1993 - M.A, George Washington University, The Elliot School of International Affairs
1988 - B.A., cum laude, University of Colorado

While in law school, Russ served as Managing Editor of the Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas. He subsequently served as assistant to the chairman for a Chapter 19 dispute resolution panel for the North American Free Trade Agreement and as research attorney for the Honorable Charles W. McCoy, Jr. of the Los Angeles Superior Court.

• California