Michael W. Graff Jr.
USA Guide 2024
Band 1 : Public Finance
Band 1
About
Provided by Michael W. Graff Jr.
Practice Areas
Michael W. Graff Jr. has served as bond, underwriter’s, bank, borrower’s, issuer’s or trustee’s counsel on dozens of tax-exempt bond financings in Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, Wisconsin and Idaho.
Michael has extensive experience in all aspects of tax-exempt financings for small manufacturing companies; private, nonprofit elementary and secondary schools; nonprofit association headquarters; college and university student housing facilities; hospitals and healthcare facilities; multifamily affordable housing projects (including low-income housing tax credits); solid waste disposal facilities; port facilities; water and waste authorities; community development authorities and other land-based special taxing districts; road and rail transportation projects; and various other borrowers, governmental issuers and their projects.
He is the co-author of “Financing Virginia’s Local Governments” in the Virginia Local Government Attorneys’ Handbook. A former trial lawyer, Michael has brought numerous judicial proceedings to establish the validity of municipal bonds.
Michael was a Parkinson scholar at Duke University School of Law and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa at the College of William & Mary.
Chambers Review
USA
Michael Graff's practice sees him handle the municipal financing of a range of infrastructure including in the transport and affordable housing spaces. He regularly represents government entities as well as public and private sector developers.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Michael is a very strong attorney with an amazing talent for service coupled with a welcome sense of humor and understanding."
"Michael is a very strong attorney with an amazing talent for service coupled with a welcome sense of humor and understanding."