Board of Selectmen Regular Meeting Materials (linked)

Finance Department 
Memo 
To: 
The Board of Selectmen 
Fran: 
Rawle Dummett 
CC: 
Kim Allen 
Date: 
June 23, 2021 
Re: Bid Award - Bid#21-108 Bond Counsel Services 
Dear Mr. Brule: 
Proposals for the above mentioned bid were opened on May 18, 2021 by Maryellen 
McConnell, Linda Geer and I with the attached results. After careful review of 
proposals, Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP best qualifies to provide these services to 
the town. 
I therefore respectfully seek the Board's approval to award the contract to Hinckley, 
Allen & Snyder. 
Ra e Dummett 
P, rchasing Age t, 
own of WaterfoB---



 
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP. Attorneys at Law 
 
60935967 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Legal Services Proposal for: 
PREPARED BY: 
May 18, 2021 
Thomas S. Marrion 
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP 
20 Church Street  
Hartford, CT 06103 
tmarrion@hinckleyallen.com 
(860) 331-2660 
Town of Waterford, Connecticut  
 
Request for Proposal for Bond Counsel Services 
RFP NO: 21-108 

 
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP. Attorneys at Law. 
Cover Letter 
May 18, 2021 
 
VIA HAND DELIVERY 
 
Rawle Dummett 
Purchasing Agent 
Town of Waterford 
Finance Department 
15 Rope Ferry Road 
Waterford, CT 06385 
 
Re: 
Response to Request for Proposal for Bond Counsel Services 
 
Dear Mr. Dummett: 
 
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP (“Hinckley Allen”) is pleased to respond to the Town of Waterford’s Request 
for Proposal to provide legal services as Bond Counsel (the “RFP”). The attached Response highlights the 
primary attorneys who would be responsible for providing the Town with counsel/services. 
 
Founded in 1906, Hinckley Allen is a full-service law firm providing outstanding legal counsel and in-depth 
industry knowledge to a wide variety of clients, including many of the region’s state and local governments 
and agencies, educational institutions, financial institutions, manufacturing companies, academic medical 
centers, hospitals, real estate developers and retail companies. We have a long history of serving as 
counsel to governments and public agencies in Connecticut and throughout New England at both the state 
and municipal levels on various matters, including public finance, pension, real estate, environmental, 
construction, land use and tax matters. Hinckley Allen has extensive experience representing bond issuers, 
and we have rendered opinions in public finance transactions involving more than $12 billion of bonds and 
notes since 2016. 
 
Hinckley Allen is nationally recognized for its work in public finance. Until recently, the Firm’s public finance 
practice had focused primarily on conduit governmental bond issues for the benefit of tax-exempt, non-
profit institutions and governmental bond issues for certain state-level independent authorities. About two 
years ago, Hinckley Allen invested in building upon its extensive public finance practice by providing bond 
counsel services to states, cities, towns and other local governments. Toward that end, the Firm hired 
partner Jay Gonzalez and municipal public finance specialist Kimberly Kessler Bragg, for governmental 
borrowings. 
 
Jay and Kim, together with our tax law expert Tony Martini, collectively have close to 50 years of experience 
providing bond counsel services to most of the cities and towns in Massachusetts, during their time together 
at Palmer & Dodge LLP (now Locke Lord). Since Jay was hired, many Massachusetts cities and towns 
have engaged us to serve as their bond counsel, and we expect a number of others will engage us in the 
near future. We also were recently selected to serve as bond counsel for the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts. 
 
We are highly motivated to be your bond counsel and have the experience and expertise to provide the 
Town with the high-quality, technical bond counsel services that you expect and deserve. Although we do 
not have municipal experience in Connecticut, our experience in Massachusetts is vast and we know we 
can be a hands-on partner who the Town’s leadership and finance team can rely on for advice and counsel. 
As the former Secretary of Administration and Finance for the Commonwealth, Jay knows what it is like to 
stand in the shoes of Town leadership and to balance the many competing needs and interests they face. 
 

 
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Cover Letter 
I am confident that Hinckley Allen can provide the Town with excellent service and value, and if you select 
us as your bond counsel, you can be confident that the Town will be a high priority and valued client of our 
Firm. I also hereby certify that we meet all of the minimum qualifications listed in the RFP. 
 
Thank you for your consideration, and we look forward to hearing from you. 
 
We hope you stay safe and healthy. 
 
Very truly yours, 
 
 
 
 
Thomas S. Marrion 
Partner 
tmarrion@hinckleyallen.com 
(860) 331-2660 
 

 
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP. Attorneys at Law. 
Table of Contents 
Table of Contents 
 
Proposal Requirements 
Page 
Background on the Firm and its Personnel  ................................................................  1 
Experience and Performance  ....................................................................................  13 
Proposed Approach  ...................................................................................................  22 
Fee  ............................................................................................................................  23 
Other Relevant Information  ........................................................................................  25 
ꟷ References 
ꟷ Conflicts 
ꟷ Value-Add 
ꟷ Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Policy 
ꟷ Insurance 
ꟷ Conclusion 
 
 
 
Appendices 
 
Appendix A: Timeline  .................................................................................................  28 
Appendix B: Public Finance Group Resumes  ............................................................  30 
Appendix C: Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Policy  ...............  42 
 
 
Signed Form  ............................................................................................................  44 
Non-Collusion Affidavit 
 
 
 

 
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Background on the Firm and its Personnel 
 
1. Provide the name, telephone number and mailing address of the primary contact person from 
your firm for this RFP. All correspondence in connection with this RFP will be sent to that 
contact person. 
 
Thomas S. Marrion, Partner 
Office: (860) 331-2660 
Mobile: (860) 989-1771 
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP 
20 Church Street 
Hartford, CT 06103 
 
 
2. Provide an introduction to your firm, briefly describing its history, including when it was 
founded, changes in ownership and location of its principal and any branch offices over time, 
and changes in the areas of practices engaged in by the firm. Also provide a description of the 
manner in which the firm is organized to facilitate coordination of the various specialists who 
will be performing different aspects of the work. Include a description of the organization of the 
firm’s public Purchasing Agent, indicating its full time legal personnel and when they first joined 
the department. Provide affirmation that your Firm is a firm properly licensed or otherwise 
permitted to provide bond counsel services in Connecticut. 
 
Hinckley Allen is a client-driven, forward-thinking law firm, and we make a simple promise to our clients: to 
provide value and deliver results. We collaborate across practices to deliver cost-effective, exceptional 
service. Hinckley Allen offers a combination of agility, responsiveness, full-service capabilities, and depth 
of experience because our Firm is structured to serve our clients based on their industries and how they do 
business. 
 
Recognized as an AmLaw 200 firm, Hinckley Allen offers pragmatic legal counsel, strategic thinking, and 
tireless advocacy to a diverse clientele. In addition to a wide variety of governmental clients, our clients 
include regional, national, and international companies and emerging businesses, both public and privately-
held, in a wide range of industries. Leading utilities, financial institutions, manufacturing companies, 
educational institutions, academic medical centers, health care institutions, hospitals, real estate 
developers, and construction companies depend on us for counsel. With offices in hub cities throughout 
the Northeast and in Chicago, we have been a vital force for businesses, government, and our communities 
for many decades. Hinckley Allen's Hartford office opened in 2008 and has been named as one of the "Best 
Places to Work in Connecticut" by the Hartford Business Journal for the past 10 years. While we have 
attorneys in various states and offices, we function as a seamless team, drawing on the skills of each 
attorney to best meet the needs of the client regardless of where the particular attorney is located. 
 
Hinckley Allen’s office locations include: 
 
Albany 
 
30 South Pearl Street 
Suite 901 
Albany, NY 12207 
Boston 
 
28 State Street 
Boston, MA 02109 
 
Chicago 
 
222 West Adams Street 
Suite 2200 
Chicago, IL 60606 
 
Hartford 
 
20 Church Street 
Hartford, CT 06103 
 
Manchester 
 
650 Elm Street 
Manchester, NH 03101 
New York 
 
1177 Avenue of the 
Americas, 5th Floor 
New York, NY 10036 
Providence 
 
100 Westminster Street 
Suite 1500 
Providence, RI 02903 
 
 

 
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The breadth and depth of legal specialties and experience offered by Hinckley Allen—including in public 
finance, litigation, real estate, environmental law, energy regulation and many others—means that we can 
provide the Town with any additional legal services it may request. 
 
Hinckley Allen was founded in 1906 and has stood the test of time thanks to an ability to adapt and a drive 
to stay ahead of the curve regarding developments and innovations within the markets and industries we 
serve. The Firm has always been owned by its equity partners, and the number of lawyers at the Firm, the 
scope of practice areas and the number of offices have grown at a steady and sustainable rate over time 
to meet the needs of our growing client base. A brief timeline of changes in the name of the Firm and office 
openings is outlined in Appendix A. 
 
Hinckley Allen is a Limited Liability Partnership, led by David J. Rubin, Managing Partner, and an Executive 
Committee supported by a team of administrative officers and directors. The Firm has various departments 
organized by general legal practice area, and some departments are composed of various practice groups. 
The Public Finance Group is a part of the Firm’s Corporate Department. 
 
 
 
 
As described in more detail below, Tom Marrion will be the primary point person and lead attorney handling 
this engagement for the Town. He will take responsibility for managing and coordinating all of the Town’s 
bond counsel work done by the members of the Public Finance team identified below. To the extent the 
Town requests additional legal services from Hinckley Allen, Tom will be responsible for identifying the best 
lawyers in the Firm to assist with the matter and for ensuring that any such additional legal services are 
provided effectively and efficiently for the Town. 
 
Hinckley Allen’s Public Finance practice is chaired by Tony Martini. The Firm has had an active Public 
Finance practice for 35 years, but it made a significant investment in growing this practice in 2015, when it 
added Tony Martini and Kris Moussette to the group, and again in 2019, when it hired Jay Gonzalez and 
Kimberly Kessler Bragg. The Firm’s Public Finance group currently has nine partners, three associates, 
one of counsel, two public finance specialists and one paralegal. 
 

 
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Name 
Title 
Joined Public 
Finance Dept. 
Stephen J. Carlotti 
Partner 
1970 
Malcolm Farmer III 
Partner 
1969 
Jay Gonzalez 
Partner 
2019 
David S. Hirsch 
Partner 
2009 
Thomas S. Marrion 
Partner & Primary Contact 
2008 
Antonio D. Martini 
Partner, Public Finance Chair 
2015 
Kris A. Moussette 
Partner 
2015 
Brian E. Tierney 
Partner 
2007 
Jonathan R. Winnick 
Partner 
2011 
Joseph A. Vitale 
Of Counsel 
2013 
Shasky L. Clarke 
Associate 
2018 
Kaitlin M. Humble 
Associate 
2019 
Jessie M. Reniere 
Associate 
2021 
Kimberly K. Bragg 
Public Finance Specialist 
2019 
Patricia N. DuBois 
Public Finance Specialist 
2016 
Eneida Bennett 
Paralegal 
2007 
 
 
Hinckley Allen is properly licensed and permitted to provide bond counsel services in Connecticut. 
 
 

 
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3. Provide the names and resumes of all professional members of your public finance department, 
including the attorney who will be primarily responsible for handling the Town's bond-related 
affairs, and a description of each individual’s role in providing services to the Town. The naming 
of such personnel shall be considered by the Town to be a commitment by the firm to assign 
these individuals to provide legal services to the Town if a contract is awarded to that firm. 
Include the number of clients currently handled by each member of this team. 
 
Our team will be led by Tom Marrion, a partner in Hinckley Allen’s Public Finance Group. Tom will serve 
as Hinckley Allen’s principal contact and will manage and direct all of the work performed by Hinckley Allen 
for the Town. He will be responsible for undertaking assignments, managing the work, communicating on 
the status of current matters, ensuring open and frequent communication with you and serving as a trusted 
counselor to the Town. He will be responsible for ensuring that Hinckley Allen continues to deliver 
outstanding legal services and that all of your legal needs are addressed promptly and efficiently. While the 
entire resources of Hinckley Allen will be made available to work on various matters for the Town, we 
specifically identify the proposed team of professionals listed below to be dedicated to, or available as 
appropriate, for your legal counsel engagements. 
 
 
Name 
Title 
Role 
Thomas S. Marrion 
Partner 
Primary Contact with Connecticut public finance 
experience 
Jay Gonzalez 
Partner 
Key support with significant city/town bond counsel 
experience 
Kris A. Moussette 
Partner 
Key support with experience as bond counsel for 
governmental issuers 
Antonio D. Martini 
Partner, Public Finance Chair 
Key tax lawyer with city/town tax experience and 
nationally recognized public finance lawyer 
Joseph A. Vitale 
Of Counsel 
Key support with Connecticut public finance 
experience 
Shasky L. Clarke 
Associate 
Key support for public finance team 
Kaitlin M. Humble 
Associate 
Key support for public finance team 
Kimberly K. Bragg 
Public Finance Specialist 
Key support for due diligence and closing 
transactions 
Patricia N. DuBois 
Public Finance Specialist 
Key support for due diligence and closing 
transactions 
 
 
Members of the Public Finance Group identified above work together in providing bond counsel services to 
our collective clients. Tom Marrion serves as the primary client contact for 30-40 clients in a number of 
industries. He is the primary contact for Hinckley Allen’s engagement as bond counsel for the State of 
Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority. Jay Gonzalez currently has about 25 clients for 
which he is principally responsible, most of which are cities, towns or other governmental bond counsel 
clients. In addition, Kris Moussette and Tony Martini collectively represent nearly 50 other clients that are 
active in the public finance markets, including issuers, conduit borrowers and investment banks, offering 
hundreds of separate unique credits to bond investors. Not every client or obligor issues bonds on a regular 
basis, allowing us to focus our time and attention on a subset of these matters at any one time. 

 
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In addition to the legal professionals noted above who will be primarily responsible for providing bond 
counsel services for the Town, the following lawyers are also members of the Firm’s Public Finance Group 
and available to assist as needed: 
 
• 
Stephen J. Carlotti, Partner 
• 
Malcolm Farmer III, Partner 
• 
David S. Hirsch, Partner 
• 
Brian E. Tierney, Partner 
• 
Jonathan R. Winnick, Partner 
• 
Jessie M. Reniere, Associate 
• 
Eneida Bennett, Paralegal 
 
Detailed resumes for each of the legal professionals who will provide bond counsel services to the Town, 
as well as summary resumes of the other legal professionals in the Firm’s Public Finance Group, are set 
forth as Appendix B. 
 
 
4. Indicate whether your firm is local, regional, national or international in the scope of its practice. 
Identify the local office that would handle the Town engagement, including Address and phone 
number. Identify the partner or other individual in charge of that office. Indicate the total number 
of professional staff personnel currently assigned to that office. If that office is not in Waterford 
describe how your firm’s personnel assigned to the Town engagement would be available 
throughout the year for consultation or meetings. 
 
Hinckley Allen is a multiservice law firm offering a full range of legal services and practical advice to regional, 
national and international clients, with core practices including construction, corporate, litigation, real estate 
and trusts and estates. 
 
We have a nationally-recognized public finance practice. Our focus is rigorous and detail-oriented and our 
method of delivery is collaborative and team-focused. We provide outstanding legal counsel and in-depth 
industry knowledge to many of the region's state and local governments and agencies, publicly held 
corporations and emerging businesses, including educational institutions, financial institutions, 
manufacturing companies, academic medical centers, hospitals, real estate developers and construction 
companies. We have a long history of serving as counsel to various public agencies in Connecticut and 
throughout New England at both the state and municipal level on various matters including public financing 
projects, pension, real estate, environmental, construction, land use and tax. 
 
In 2020 alone, our Public Finance team worked on many different types of transactions for a variety of 
governmental and non-profit clients. Noted below are the total number of transactions we worked on in 
2020 and the total dollar value of the principal amount issued in those transactions. 
 
83 
Public Finance Closings 
$3.4 Billion 
Public Finance Deal Value 
 
Hinckley Allen’s Hartford, Connecticut office will handle the engagement for the Town, with support from 
Public Finance team members located in our Boston, Massachusetts office. Public Finance partner Tom 
Marrion will lead this engagement and is located in our Hartford office. The Firm maintains its Connecticut 
office at 20 Church Street, Hartford, and the main phone number is (860) 725-6200. It employs 47 
Connecticut residents. 
 
The Town will be a highly-valued and top-priority client of Hinckley Allen. You can be assured that we will 
devote our full focus and attention to the Town’s needs, and we will make ourselves available to the Town 
whenever our services are needed. We take pride in our hyper-responsiveness to clients’ needs, and we 
would certainly bring that level of responsiveness to the Town. We also commit that the lead partner, Tom 
Marrion, will personally be available to and responsive to the Town whenever he is needed. 
 

 
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Hinckley Allen will, however, be more than just responsive. We will also approach our engagement with a 
personalized, proactive and hands-on approach. We will work closely with your team to understand your 
objectives and help you to achieve them; anticipate and proactively work to address potential challenges; 
and be an active, engaged and problem-solving partner to you in working through issues. 
 
One of the reasons Hinckley Allen is able to commit to being extremely accessible to the Town is that our 
office at 20 Church Street is a short drive away. This will allow us to interact and collaborate with the Town 
officials directly and in person for consultations and meetings. 
 
We have the capabilities and expertise of a national firm, but with the agility and responsiveness of a 
regional firm. That unique combination allows us to address your legal needs efficiently and cost-effectively. 
 
 
5. Identify the partners, managers, specialists or other professional staff persons from that local 
office and from any other offices of your firm who would be assigned to the Town bond counsel 
services engagement. Describe their roles and provide a brief description of their professional 
experience, including their experience designations, licenses, and memberships that these 
individuals hold. Indicate the extent to which their governmental bond counsel services’ 
experience has been within the State of Connecticut. Indicate their participation in professional 
development programs in the governmental or nongovernmental bond counsel services area. 
If more convenient, resumes may be included in an appendix appropriately cross-referenced 
here. 
 
 
Tom Marrion will lead this engagement for the Hinckley Allen team and will be the 
Town’s primary contact. He has served as bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel, 
borrower’s counsel, and bank counsel in Connecticut, throughout the Northeast and 
beyond. Tom has served as special counsel outside the Firm’s Northeastern footprint to 
borrowers in public finance transactions. He is an active member of the National 
Association of Bond Lawyers (“NABL”) and has served as a panelist on several 
occasions at NABL’s Bond Attorneys Workshop. He is a contributing author of NABL’s 
recent publication Municipal Bankruptcy: A Guide for Public Finance Attorneys. He has served as 
underwriters’ counsel in recent State of Connecticut bond financings. Tom is also an Adjunct Professor at 
the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he has taught since 1992, and he has written and 
lectured extensively on health law, public finance and business law topics. Tom received his A.B. from the 
College of the Holy Cross, and his J.D., with honors, from the University of Connecticut School of Law. 
 
 
Joseph Vitale is Of Counsel to Hinckley Allen. Joe has acted as counsel in tax-exempt financings since 
1985 and has served as Bond Counsel for State of Connecticut financings, the Metropolitan District, the 
Cities of Waterbury and New Britain and a number of other municipalities, as well as underwriters’ counsel 
on State and municipal financings in Connecticut. His practice also includes the representation of 
healthcare providers, as well as underwriters and other financial institutions. Joe received his A.B., summa 
cum laude, from Boston College, and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. 
 
 
Jay Gonzalez has more than 20 years of public and private sector leadership and legal 
experience, including executive leadership roles in state government and health care 
and as a law firm partner. He also has a history of political and civic engagement, 
including as the most recent Democratic Party nominee for Governor of Massachusetts. 
Jay began his career in Boston as a public finance lawyer at Palmer & Dodge LLP, where 
he became a partner in that firm’s Public Finance Department. In that role, Jay served 
as bond counsel to governmental entities in financing and developing capital projects 
and other government programs. His bond counsel clients included, among others, the City of Boston and 
most of the other cities and towns in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust, the Lynn Water 

 
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and Sewer Commission and the New Hampshire Bond Bank. Jay subsequently served as the Secretary of 
Administration and Finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under Governor Deval Patrick. In that 
role, Jay successfully managed a $32 billion state budget during the “Great Recession” and oversaw over 
3,000 employees in 18 state agencies including the Department of Revenue and agencies responsible for 
state facilities, human resources, information technology, procurements, and other administrative functions. 
As Secretary of Administration and Finance, Jay also served on various state boards and commissions, 
including as chair of the boards of the Health Connector and the Life Sciences Center. Following his time 
in the Patrick Administration and prior to his gubernatorial campaign, Jay served as the President and Chief 
Executive Officer of CeltiCare Health Plan of Massachusetts and New Hampshire Healthy Families. In these 
roles, he led all aspects of a government-subsidized health insurance business for the Massachusetts and 
New Hampshire subsidiaries of Centene Corporation and oversaw a period of significant growth for the 
regional business. Jay received his B.A., cum laude, from Dartmouth College, and his J.D., cum laude, from 
Georgetown University Law Center. 
 
 
Kris Moussette is involved in all aspects of public finance, including the structuring and 
facilitating of a variety of tax-exempt bond transactions, disclosure, bank loans, standby 
credit facilities, liquidity facilities and interest rate hedge agreements. She serves as 
outside general counsel to the Business Finance Authority of the State of New 
Hampshire (“BFA”), the New Hampshire National Finance Authority (“NFA”) and Vermont 
Economic Development Authority (“VEDA”) and was outside general counsel to the 
Health and Educational Finance Authority (“HEFA”) until its merger into the 
Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (“MassDevelopment”) in 2010. She serves as bond counsel, 
disclosure counsel, borrower's counsel, underwriters’ counsel, bank counsel, and issuer's counsel. Kris’s 
public finance roots started at Palmer & Dodge LLP in 1997. She joined the Hinckley Allen Public Finance 
Group in 2015. She has significant experience in municipal financings, including as bond counsel and 
disclosure counsel for the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust, disclosure counsel and underwriters’ counsel 
for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (“MWRA”), disclosure counsel and underwriters’ counsel 
for the Massachusetts Port Authority, disclosure counsel and bond counsel for University of Massachusetts 
Building Authority (“UMBA”), bond counsel to the University of Massachusetts, bond counsel for the 
Massachusetts State College Building Authority, underwriters’ counsel for the Massachusetts School 
Building Authority, borrower’s counsel on Rhode Island Clean Water financings, bond counsel for Rhode 
Island Infrastructure Bank, and bond counsel for the Southfield Redevelopment Corporation, among others. 
In addition, Kris has represented the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in connection with its infrastructure 
development program known as “I-Cubed”. Her public finance work also includes debt issuances to support 
501(c)(3) organizations, such as public and private colleges and universities, secondary schools, hospitals, 
health care systems, cultural institutions such as museums, and other charitable organizations. Kris serves 
as bond counsel to the Connecticut Health and Education Finance Authority (“CHEFA”), Rhode Island 
Health and Education Building Corporation (“RIHEBC”), Finance Authority of Maine (“FAME”), 
MassDevelopment, BFA, VEDA and NFA. Kris has drafted legislation for state and local issuers and 
represents bond purchasers on transactions throughout the United States. She is experienced with the 
issuance of “green bonds” and “sustainability bonds”. 
 
Kris received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Colby College and her J.D. from Boston College Law 
School. Kris is the Chair of the Board and is on the Executive Committee of the ALS Association, 
Massachusetts Chapter, and is on the Board of the Women in Public Finance, Boston Chapter. Kris is on 
the faculty and a panel chair for the National Association of Bond Lawyers and is a panelist for the Treasury 
Institute. At Hinckley Allen, Kris is a member of the Firm’s Strategic Planning Committee and the Firm’s 
Women’s Forum Leadership Group. 
 
 

 
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Tony Martini will take the lead on handling all of the tax-related work for the Town’s 
bond issues. Tony is the Chair of the Firm’s Public Finance Practice Group and the leader 
of the Firm’s Public Finance tax practice, and he offers premier, unsurpassed, nationally-
recognized tax expertise in tax-exempt financings. Tony focuses his practice on 
municipal finance-related federal tax law, with an emphasis on tax-exempt governmental 
facilities financings, qualified 501(c)(3), exempt facility and qualified small issue and 
other private activity bond financings, tax revenue anticipation and other working capital 
financings, advance refunding structures and tax-exempt substitutes, interest rate swap and other 
municipal finance-related derivative products, defense of IRS bond examinations, as well as taxable bond 
and tax credit bond financings for state and local governments and other eligible borrowers. He has 
considerable experience with and insight into the full range of arbitrage and private activity bond 
considerations that affect governmental bond issuers. Tony started his career at Orrick, Herrington and 
Sutcliffe, LLP in California in 1992 before joining Palmer & Dodge LLP in 1998 and subsequently joining 
Hinckley Allen as a partner in 2015. 
 
Tony also has handled general federal corporate taxation matters and has extensive bond-related tax 
controversy experience handling IRS audits of tax-exempt bonds and in the negotiation of closing 
agreements with the IRS through its Voluntary Closing Agreement Program (“VCAP”). He is a regular 
speaker and panelist on federal tax law issues at the tax seminars and Bond Attorneys’ Workshops 
presented by NABL. From 2002 to 2003, he served as Editor-in-Chief of NABL’s treatise, Federal Taxation 
of Municipal Bonds. In addition, he served as Chair of NABL’s 2008 Tax and Securities Law Institute and 
served on NABL’s Board of Directors from 2009 to 2016. Tony served as President of NABL from 2014-
2015. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Bond Counsel and has been recognized for his 
expertise and experience by Best Lawyers in America® and Chambers USA. Tony received his B.A., summa 
cum laude, from Union College, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he served as an editor of 
the Columbia Law Review. 
 
 
Shasky Clarke joined Hinckley Allen’s Public Finance practice in September 2018, after 
having been a summer associate with the Firm in 2017. He has worked on a variety of 
transactions, including work for governmental borrowers who issue general obligation 
debt, special obligation bond issues, competitive and negotiated transactions and 
providing bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel and borrower’s counsel services. Shasky 
will be the primary associate assigned to support Hinckley Allen’s work for the Town. He 
has provided bond counsel services for CHEFA, MassDevelopment, RIHEBC and 
VEDA. While at Harvard Law School, Shasky worked as a legal intern with the Nashville Predators and 
worked on the Journal of Sports and Entertainment. Shasky received his B.A. from Yale University and his 
J.D. from Harvard Law School. 
 
 
Kaitlin Humble is an Associate in Hinckley Allen’s Corporate & Business practice group. 
In her practice, Kaitlin advises clients on a wide variety of corporate and business law 
topics, including corporate finance and taxation, corporate governance, mergers and 
acquisitions, securities regulation, bankruptcy and corporate restructuring, and 
commercial real estate transactions. Kaitlin has worked with the Hinckley Allen Public 
Finance team on transactions in Connecticut and elsewhere in New England. Prior to 
attending law school, Kaitlin worked for an international consulting firm based in 
Washington, DC, where she supported financial industry professionals in providing expert witness services 
for litigation, arbitration and mediation matters for corporate clients. She received her B.A. from Johns 
Hopkins University and her J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School. 
 
 

 
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Kim Bragg, Public Finance Specialist, has more than 15 years of public finance 
experience. She assists attorneys with providing bond counsel services to governmental 
borrowers throughout New England. Her experience includes assisting with all aspects 
of public financings from reviewing diligence materials, preparing official statements, 
drafting closing documents and assisting with closing and post-closing matters. Kim 
received her M.S. from Simmons University, her Paralegal Studies Certificate from 
Northeastern University and her B.A. from Bates College. 
 
 
Patty DuBois, Public Finance Specialist, will support Hinckley Allen’s work in 
coordinating the various parties and documentation required to close bond transactions 
for the Town. Patty brings comprehensive experience managing and closing public and 
private fixed-income transactions for a variety of issuers and borrowers in the Northeast 
region. Prior to joining Hinckley Allen in 2016, Patty spent 16 years in the public finance 
groups at both Palmer & Dodge LLP and Mintz Levin. Patty is highly experienced in 
conducting due diligence and closing transactions. Patty received her B.A., magna cum 
laude, from Pace University. 
 
Detailed resumes for each of the legal professionals who will provide bond counsel services to the Town, 
as well as summary resumes of the other legal professionals in the Firm’s Public Finance Group, are set 
forth as Appendix B. 
 
 
6. Indicate whether your firm has been the subject of any professional disciplinary action by 
federal, state government or by a professional association. If yes, describe that disciplinary 
action. 
 
None. 
 
 
7. Identify the larger bond counsel services clients handled by that local office, including 
commercial and industrial companies, non-profit organizations and governmental units (current 
of within the past five years). For governmental clients, please indicate how many years your 
firm has been providing bond counsel services to each client. 
 
The Hinckley Allen public finance team has served as bond counsel on billions of dollars of general 
obligation and special obligation bond issues for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and for the States 
of Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire. We also have years of experience serving as bond counsel 
to hundreds of municipal and other governmental borrowers throughout New England on thousands of bond 
and note issues with security and financing structures similar to the Town’s. 
 
A sampling of our experience as bond counsel, general or special counsel, or underwriters’ counsel for 
large governmental entities includes: 
 
• 
Hinckley Allen has served as bond counsel to the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities 
Authority (“CHEFA”) since 2016 and our Public Finance Team has handled revenue bond 
transactions totaling over $200,000,000 for CHEFA since 2017. 
 
• 
Hinckley Allen served from 2013 to 2020 as co-bond counsel to the Connecticut Metropolitan 
District (“MDC”) which, as the Connecticut Clean Water Fund’s largest borrower, has borrowed 
extensively from both the State’s Clean Water fund for the MDC’s clean water project and from the 
State’s Drinking Water fund for its other capital improvement projects. Our lawyers served as co-
bond counsel on over $1.5 billion of Metropolitan District bonds and notes and have represented 
borrowers from the Clean Water Fund since 1997. 
 

 
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We were recently selected to serve as bond counsel to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
and are currently serving as bond counsel on a $600 million bond issue. 
 
• 
We previously served as bond counsel to the State of Rhode Island until 2017. We served as 
bond counsel on nine separate financings for the State of Rhode Island, including tax-exempt bond 
issuances, taxable bond issuances and tax anticipation notes. The total par amount of such 
issuances was approximately $950,000,000. In our capacity as bond counsel to the State of Rhode 
Island, we also regularly advised on legislation and voter referendums for future bond financings. 
We worked closely with various state officials, including the Governor, Treasurer and State Budget 
Officer. 
 
• 
The Hinckley Allen team consistently represents underwriters for governmental issuer transactions. 
Most recently, Kris Moussette served as underwriters’ counsel in connection with the $405,530,000 
Massachusetts Port Authority Revenue Bonds, Series 2021-D (Non-AMT) and 2021-E (AMT), 
which were issued on March 24, 2021. One month prior, Kris served as underwriters’ counsel in 
connection with the $287,270,000 Massachusetts Port Authority Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 
2021-A (Non-AMT), 2021-B (AMT) and 2021-C (Taxable), which were issued on February 3, 2021. 
 
• 
Kris Moussette, Tony Martini and Jay Gonzalez have a long history as serving as the go-to bond 
counsel for the Business Finance Authority of the State of New Hampshire (“BFA”) while at 
Hinckley Allen and their prior firms, providing bond counsel, special tax counsel, and issuer counsel 
services. In 2019 and 2020, we assisted the BFA with two sale-leaseback transactions partially 
secured with state of New Hampshire guarantees, which provide the BFA with lease payment 
revenue and a lower cost of lending and borrowing, generating enterprise within the state. We also 
represented the BFA in connection with the restructuring of its taxable bonds, the proceeds of which 
it uses to fund its loan program. 
 
• 
Hinckley Allen is nationally recognized for its work in public finance and has extensive experience 
serving as bond counsel for governmental bond issuers in Connecticut and throughout New 
England. Prior to 2019, the Firm’s robust public finance practice had focused primarily on conduit 
governmental bond issues for the benefit of tax-exempt, non-profit institutions and governmental 
bond issues for certain state-level independent authorities, offering hundreds of separate unique 
credits to bond investors. The governmental entities acting as conduit issuers for whom we provide 
bond counsel services include CHEFA, BFA, Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, 
National Finance Authority (“NFA”) (which is a component unit of the BFA), Rhode Island Health 
and Education Building Corporation (“RIHEBC”), and Vermont Economic Development Authority 
(“VEDA”). 
 
• 
In 2020 following an RFP process, the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank (“RIIB”) engaged 
Hinckley Allen as its sole bond counsel. Since the start of the engagement, we have rendered bond 
counsel opinions with respect to the $12,765,000 Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank Municipal Road 
and Bridge Revolving Fund Revenue Bonds, Series 2020 A issued April 22, 2020 and the 
$13,970,000 Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank Efficient Buildings Fund Revenue Bonds, Series 
2020 A (Green Bonds) issued October 29, 2020, and currently are working with the RIIB and its 
financial advisors in collaboration with regulatory authorities to overhaul its indenture frameworks 
to provide for a streamlined structure. 
 
• 
Following an RFP process in 2019, the Massachusetts State College Building Authority 
(“MSCBA”) engaged Hinckley Allen as its sole bond counsel. The MSCBA finances dormitories, 
student life and other facilities at the state university and community college campuses. Since being 
engaged, we have served as bond counsel on two large taxable advance refunding bond issues 
and have assisted the MSCBA with a variety of other debt-related matters, including state law and 
federal tax law compliance matters relating to the sale of property financed with tax-exempt bonds. 

 
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The following is a representative list of governmental bond issuers for which the members of the Hinckley 
Allen team have served as bond counsel over the last 20+ years: 
 
• 
State of Connecticut Health and Educational 
Facilities Authority 
• 
Connecticut Metropolitan District 
• 
The City of Boston and virtually every other city 
and town in Massachusetts 
• 
Virtually every other municipal issuer in 
Massachusetts, including regional transit 
authorities and regional school districts 
• 
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the 
states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and 
Rhode Island 
• 
Massachusetts Clean Water Trust 
• 
Massachusetts Convention Center Authority 
• 
Massachusetts Steamship Authority 
• 
MassHousing 
• 
University of Massachusetts Building Authority 
• 
Massachusetts State College Building Authority 
• 
Vermont Economic Development Authority 
• 
Vermont Public Power Supply Authority 
• 
Many special purpose governmental 
entities with bond financing authority, such 
as the Lynn Water and Sewer 
Commission, the Nantucket Land Bank 
and the Southfield Redevelopment 
Authority (formerly South Shore Tri-Town 
Development Corporation) 
• 
MassDevelopment (and the former Health 
and Educational Finance Authority) 
• 
MassDOT (formerly Massachusetts 
Turnpike Authority) 
• 
New Hampshire Bond Bank 
• 
New Hampshire Business Finance 
Authority 
• 
New Hampshire’s Pease Development 
Authority 
• 
Rhode Island Health and Education 
Building Corporation 
• 
Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank 
• 
Rhode Island Student Loan Authority 
• 
Finance Authority of Maine 
 
 
8. Identify any municipal governments that are comparable in size to the Town for which your firm 
currently provides bond counsel services of type of similar to that outlined in this request for 
proposals. 
 
Hinckley Allen’s Joseph Vitale has served as bond counsel to the City of Waterbury and City of New 
Britain. Among other transactions, he acted as lead counsel on the City of Waterbury's $97,465,000 deficit 
financing bonds, secured by a special capital reserve fund (“SCARF”) and a tax revenue intercept, to 
finance the City's accumulated operating deficit. 
 
Since investing in growing our state and local government bond counsel practice a couple of years ago, 
Hinckley Allen now represents close to 20 municipal governments in Massachusetts as bond 
counsel, including cities, towns and a redevelopment authority. In the last year, we have served as 
bond counsel on over 50 bond and note issues for these entities, virtually all of which were general 
obligation issues. These municipal bond and note issues included new money and refunding issues, 
competitively sold and negotiated deals, tax-exempt and taxable transactions, privately placed and publicly 
offered issues, and general obligation and special obligation security structures. 
 
 

 
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The following is a list of Hinckley Allen’s municipal bond counsel clients, all of which are new clients of the 
Firm since the summer of 2019 after Jay Gonzalez joined the Firm: 
 
Cities: 
 
• 
City of Chelsea, Massachusetts 
• 
City of Easthampton, Massachusetts 
• 
City of Haverhill, Massachusetts 
• 
City of Lawrence, Massachusetts 
• 
City of Lynn, Massachusetts 
• 
City of Medford, Massachusetts 
• 
City of Melrose, Massachusetts 
• 
City of Northampton, Massachusetts 
• 
City of Revere, Massachusetts 
• 
City of Salem, Massachusetts 
Towns: 
 
• 
Town of Acton, Massachusetts 
• 
Town of Brookline, Massachusetts 
• 
Town of Medfield, Massachusetts 
• 
Town of North Andover, Massachusetts 
• 
Town of Watertown, Massachusetts 
• 
Town of Winchester, Massachusetts 
• 
Town of Winthrop, Massachusetts 
 
Based on conversations with certain other cities and towns, the Firm expects to have additional municipal 
bond counsel clients in the near future. In addition, Hinckley Allen is currently serving, for the first time, as 
bond counsel to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on a $600 million bond issue. 
 
 
9. Describe your firm’s professional development programs and any continuing professional 
education requirements imposed by your firm on professional bond counsel services 
personnel. Identify specialized programs offered within your firm in the area of governmental 
bond counsel services. 
 
The Hinckley Allen Public Finance Group is diligent about ensuring we stay abreast of statutory and 
regulatory developments that affect our clients and our public finance practice, and we engage in various 
professional development activities to ensure we are aware of public finance industry developments and 
best practices. For example, all of the lawyers on the Town’s bond counsel team are current members of 
NABL who regularly attend its excellent in-person and virtual educational seminars and conferences. NABL 
distributes many educational and reference resources as a part of these educational offerings. 
 
Our Public Finance Group also attends other relevant industry conferences, such as GFOA events. We all 
subscribe to and regularly read the Bond Buyer, and our Public Finance Group meets regularly to share 
our learnings with each other. 
 
As we learn of any proposed or enacted federal or state legislation or regulations relating to municipal 
bonds that could impact the Town, we would be sure to make the Town aware of such provisions and, to 
the extent necessary, assist the Town in complying with them. Depending on the nature of the legislation 
or regulations, we might make you aware of such changes through an alert or bulletin sent to all of our 
municipal bond counsel clients or through a direct communication to Town leadership regarding the 
changes in law. When necessary, we would engage with Town officials to ensure the Town understands 
the changes in law and to help the Town comply with them. 
 
 
 

 
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Experience and Performance 
 
1. Identify the lawyers in your firm whose primary specialty consists of representing municipalities 
in connection with the issuance of municipal bonds and state the percentage of time each of 
them has spent representing municipalities in connection with the issuance of municipal bonds 
in each of the last three calendar years. 
 
The Hinckley Allen team has substantial experience representing municipalities in connection with the 
issuance of municipal bonds. Now more than ever, our team is focused on municipal bond counsel services 
with the addition of Jay Gonzalez. Jay currently spends about 80% of his time serving as bond counsel for 
cities and towns. Jay was previously a partner at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge (together with Tony 
Martini, Kris Moussette, Kim Bragg and Patty DuBois) where he specialized in serving as bond counsel to 
hundreds of cities, towns and other local governments throughout New England, including the City of 
Boston. He also has the perspective of a government issuer, having previously served as the Secretary of 
Administration and Finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where he successfully managed a 
$32 billion state budget through the Great Recession, and oversaw the State’s investments and capital 
borrowing program. Jay’s experience in this role allows our team to understand the Town’s perspective and 
the challenges you face, and it allows us to serve as a strategic resource and advisor in a way that other 
firms cannot. Jay just returned to the practice of law after spending the last few years in public and private 
sector leadership positions and, most recently, as the Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts. 
 
Tony Martini has provided bond counsel services to each of the New England states and to hundreds of 
cities, towns and other local governments throughout New England. His experience extends as well to 
numerous other governmental issuers throughout New England, and in New York, Florida and California. 
No other bond tax counsel in New England can offer this remarkable depth of field. In the last three calendar 
years, Tony has spent approximately 20-25% of his time representing municipalities on federal tax law 
matters in connection with the issuance of tax-exempt municipal bonds; over the same period, virtually all 
of Tony’s other time has been devoted to advising other governmental entities on the federal tax law rules 
governing tax-exempt bonds. 
 
Tom Marrion has served as bond counsel, borrower’s counsel, bank counsel, and underwriter’s counsel in 
numerous transactions throughout New England and New York, including transactions with CHEFA, the 
State of Connecticut, New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority (“NHHEFA”), the 
Metropolitan District Commission, the Vermont Housing Finance Agency and the Vermont Economic 
Development Agency. In the last three calendar years, Tom spent 35-40% of his time in public finance 
transactions. 
 
In the past three years, Joseph Vitale has represented the Metropolitan District Commission as bond 
counsel for multiple bond issues. 
 
Kris Moussette has served in a variety of capacities, mostly as bond counsel and as disclosure counsel, to 
virtually every institutional governmental issuer in Massachusetts as well as to conduit issuers and 
borrowers throughout New England, including CHEFA, the State of Rhode Island, RIHEBC, MassHEFA, 
MassDevelopment, t