McGuireWoods hires Marcus Deitz as counsel for public finance practice

By Toni Weeks

San Luis Obispo, Calif., Jan. 12 – McGuireWoods LLP announced the hiring of Marcus W. Deitz as counsel for major local and regional bond issues, enhancing the firm’s national public finance practice. Deitz is the fourth public finance lawyer hired for McGuireWoods’ Houston office, according to a press release.

The attorney joins the company from Norton Rose Fulbright, where he was a partner working on public finance transactions from its Houston and Denver offices.

“Marcus is very well known in the public finance community from years of successfully guiding cities, counties, public school districts and junior colleges, state agencies and regional or special governmental authorities through very complicated financings,” Thomas Farrell, managing partner of the Houston office, said in a press release.

Some of Deitz’s recent transactions include serving as bond counsel on multiple series of variable-rate unlimited tax school building bonds for several independent school districts, with principal amounts exceeding $100 million; serving as underwriters’ counsel for several series of limited and unlimited tax school building bonds for one of the largest school districts in the United States, with principal amounts exceeding $350 million; and serving as disclosure counsel for one of the largest municipal utility district bond financings in Texas. He has also helped to develop and bring to market a new convertible bond structure that allows an issuer’s taxable debt to be converted later into tax-exempt debt at a predetermined rate without incurring reissuance costs, serving as both bond counsel and underwriters’ counsel on such convertible bond transactions.

The law firm is based in Richmond, Va.

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