Michael M. Stoddard

BAR ADMISSIONS

Idaho

PROFESSIONAL/COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS

American Bar Association

National Association of Bond Lawyers

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Best Lawyers in America, Public Finance Law, 2022

Idaho Business Review, Leaders in Law, Partner, 2019

EDUCATION

Law School:

Vanderbilt University, J.D., 1985

Undergraduate:

Occidental College, A.B., 1982

SIGNIFICANT REPRESENTATION

Public Finance
Worked as bond counsel, underwriter counsel, issuer counsel, borrower counsel, and disclosure counsel on numerous public finance transactions in Idaho and surrounding states throughout the past two decades. Drafts and negotiates stock purchase agreements, asset purchase agreements, and other documents related to a merger and acquisition transaction.

General Counsel to the Idaho Health Authority

General Counsel to the Greater Boise Auditorium District

Public Development
$65,000,000 financing of the first significant public-private partnership created in Idaho with a subsequent $50,000,000 apartment and parking project.

Energy Projects
$488,000,000 wind farm project, 122 turbines located in 11 different sites in Idaho. Work included drafting organizational documents, authorizing resolutions, providing legal opinions on the organization of project entities, and enforceability of project documents. Heavy involvement in due diligence, local laws and restrictions, and permitting and entitlement issues.

Housing
Financing of a 12-site low-income housing complex in Oregon. The loan package included traditional construction financing and permanent loans, tax-exempt bonds, equity investment via tax credits, and some unique Oregon tax credits.

Finance
Represented numerous borrowers in negotiating credit facilities with lenders, including a $75,000,000 revolving facility provided by a consortium of banks secured by properties in the US and Canada.