Practice Areas
Mr. Kulp’s practice focuses full-time on municipal bond finance, with emphasis in the areas of federal securities and tax law as well as state and local government law. He regularly serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and issuer’s counsel to numerous state, regional and local government entities as well as educational, senior living, cultural and other 501(c)(3) nonprofit entities. He also serves as lender’s counsel and underwriter’s counsel to various financial and investment banking institutions in connection with public finance transactions.
During the course of providing such representations for more than 30 years, Mr. Kulp has gained extensive experience with a broad array of financing structures and techniques and a variety of security structures, including not only traditional general obligation, utility revenue, lease revenue and other “subject-to-appropriation” financings but also special assessment, tax increment and other project-based financing structures.
He has assisted issuers in financing a broad array of projects, including water and wastewater facilities, schools, universities, court facilities, parking facilities, public buildings and senior living communities. Mr. Kulp has also served in bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel roles on community development authority financings to provide public infrastructure in support of residential, commercial and retail developments.