Ballard Spahr LLP
Client SatisfactionLawyers
William Rhodes
- Phone1.215.864.8534
- Email[email protected]
- Profilewww.ballardspahr.com
Work Department
Finance
Position
Partner, Leader of Education Industry Group, Leader of Municipal Recovery Initiative
Career
William C. Rhodes leads the firm's Education Industry Group and its Municipal Recovery Initiative. Bill regularly represents issuers, broker-dealers, and investors in all areas of public finance, with an emphasis on the offering of high-yield (unrated) municipal securities.
Bill represents clients in the financing of public infrastructure, transportation, project financing, economic development, and public purpose facilities for governments and their authorities. His clients also include public and private secondary schools, colleges, and universities; health care systems; cultural institutions; and municipal- and investor-owned water, wastewater, and energy utilities. He also has extensive experience in affordable housing, including single-family mortgage finance and multifamily, military, and senior housing projects.
Bill regularly advises issuers, underwriters, municipal advisers, and investors in the evolving landscape of municipal securities regulation and enforcement, including regulatory compliance, primary and secondary market disclosures, and enforcement actions.
AdmissionsColorado, Pennsylvania
Memberships
Colorado Bar Association
Philadelphia Bar Association
National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL)
Pennsylvania Association of Bond Lawyers (PABL)
Pennsylvania Economy League, Inc., Board Member
Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, LLC, Board Member
Past board member and former President, Elfreth's Alley Association, a 501(c)(3) corporation that preserves and interprets Elfreth's Alley, the nation's oldest continuous residential street and a National Historic Landmark in Philadelphia
Education
Dickinson School of Law of Pennsylvania State University (J.D. 1991)
Member, Dickinson Law Review
Swarthmore College (B.A. 1987, cum laude)