Donald S. Field

Mr. Field is a partner in Orrick's Public Finance Group and the co-chair of Orrick’s School and Community College Finance/General Obligation Bonds Practice Group.  He is also a member of Orrick's Assessment/Mello-Roos Practice Group, Leasing Practice Group, Revenue Practice Group and Redevelopment Practice Group.

Mr. Field has extensive experience as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter's counsel in the financing techniques used by school and community college districts, redevelopment agencies, cities and counties in California.  His practice focuses on local governmental infrastructure financing, including general obligation bond financing, land-secured financing, municipal lease financing and redevelopment financing, as well as tax and revenue anticipation note (TRAN), pension obligation and other post-employment benefit (OPEB) obligation financings.  Mr. Field serves as the lead attorney for the California School Boards Association's annual tax and revenue anticipation note pool, which consisted of 149 participants in 2009.

Mr. Field has appeared as a speaker at the following conferences and seminars.

• California School Boards Association's Annual Conference (December 2009)
• Vanir Construction Management, Inc. PM/CM Conference (November 2009)
• Coalition for Adequate School Housing's  Spring Workshops on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (March 2009)
• Coalition for Adequate School Housing's Annual Conference (February 2006; February 2007; February 2008; February 2009)
• Coalition for Adequate School Housing's Facilities Leadership Academy (November 2007; November 2008)
• Coalition for Adequate School Housing's Spring Conference (May 2007)
• California Community College League's Annual Conference (November 2006)
• California Community College League's Trustees Annual Conference (May 2006; May 2008)
• California Society of Municipal Finance Officers' Legislative Seminar (May 2006)
• California Newspaper Editor's Association/Associated Press News Editor's Council Conference (June 2006)
• California Redevelopment Association's Fall Conference (September 2006; September 2007)
• League of California Cities Financial Management Seminar (December 2006)

Mr. Field is the principal author and editor of the third edition of The XYZs of California School District Debt Financing, published by Orrick in 2005.

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