Profile
Warren S. Bloom is Co-Chair of the Public Finance Practice and began his legal career with Kaye Scholer in New York City in the mid-1980s concentrating on the representation of lending institutions in leveraged buyouts and "going private" transactions. Upon his relocation to Florida in late 1988, Warren began to focus his practice on public finance and the representation of creditor entities in such transactions (e.g., indenture trustees, bondholders, bond purchasers and credit enhancers). Since that time, Warren represents municipal security credit holders and indenture trustees in both new and existing distressed transactions in more than half of the United States.
Warren's experience includes active roles in bankruptcies, foreclosures and consensual restructurings of municipal transactions both in Florida and throughout the nation. During the "Great Recession," Warren worked on over $1 billion of land-based municipal securities restructurings. His practice continues to include a substantial amount of underwriters' counsel, bond counsel, purchaser's counsel and credit enhancers' counsel roles on new transactions.
Within the last decade, Warren has worked on a number of notable energy and medical project finance financings.
Concentrations
- Municipal securities
- Project finance
- Workout transactions
Capabilities
Experience
- Purchasers' counsel for $1,964,035,172.65 Jefferson County, Alabama Sewer Revenue Warrants Series 2013. These warrants represented the funding of the resolution of the Jefferson County, Alabama Chapter 9 Bankruptcy Case.
- Represented the purchasers of $81,315,000 Public Finance Authority Revenue Bonds, Series 2017 (Delray Beach Radiation Therapy Center).
- Represented the purchasers of $73,280,000 Public Finance Authority Senior Revenue Bonds, Series 2017A (Alabama Proton Therapy Treatment Center) and $8,000,000 Public Finance Authority Subordinate Revenue Bonds, Series 2017B (Alabama Proton Therapy Treatment Center).
- Represented the purchasers of $150,000,000 Public Finance Authority (i) Senior Revenue Bonds, Series 2018A (ProCure Proton Therapy Center), (ii) Subordinate Revenue Bonds, Series 2018B-1 (ProCure Proton Therapy Center) (Taxable), (iii) Subordinate Revenue Bonds, Series 2018B-2 (ProCure Proton Therapy Center) (Taxable), and (iv) Subordinate Revenue Bonds, Series 2018B-3 (ProCure Proton Therapy Center) (Taxable).
- Represented the purchasers of $245,500,000 Oregon Business Development Commission Economic Development Revenue Bonds, 2017 and 2018 (Red Rock Biofuels LLC Clean Energy Project).
- Represented the purchasers of $57,295,000 The New Hope Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corporation Tax Exempt and Taxable Bonds (Bridgemoor Plano Project) Series 2018A and Series 2018B.
- Represented the purchasers of $36,650,000 Public Finance Authority Senior Taxable Revenue Bonds, Series 2018A (Seattle Proton Center, LLC) and $6,000,000 Public Finance Authority Subordinate Taxable Revenue Bonds, Series 2018B (Seattle Proton Center, LLC).
- Represented the purchasers of $10,000,000 Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, Solid Waste Disposal Revenue Bonds, Zero Waste Solutions Issue, Series A and $23,260,000 Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, Solid Waste Disposal Revenue Bonds, Zero Waste Solutions Issue, Series B (Federally Taxable).
- Represented the purchasers of $25,000,000 Brazoria County Industrial Development Corporation Solid Waste Disposal Facilities Revenue Bonds (Gladieux Metals Recycling, LLC Project) Series 2019.
- Represented the Port of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas with the issuance of $144,200,000 Port of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas Dock and Wharf Facility Revenue Bonds, Series 2016 (AMT) (Jefferson Energy Companies Project).
- Represented industrial revenue bondholders in Citgo Corporation's 2005 multibillion-dollar restructuring related to SEC reporting requirements.
- Represented purchasers of the $475 million New York Industrial Development Agency liberty revenue bonds, Series 2005 (7 World Trade Center, LLC Project).
- Represented Lennar Corporation as special counsel in connection with the issuance and sale of the Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco Community Facilities District No. 7 (Hunters Point Shipyard Phase I Improvements), which related to the development of one of the most significant parcels of land on the San Francisco Bay.
- Represented the purchasers of $46.88 million Jefferson County (Texas) Industrial Development Corporation Hurricane Ike disaster area revenue bonds, Series 2012 (Port of Beaumont Petroleum Transload Terminal, LLC Project).
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Public Finance Law, 2007-2024
- "Lawyer of the Year," Public Finance Law, Orlando, 2011, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024
- Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2006-2023
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Florida Super Lawyers, 2006-2023
- Listed, IFLR1000, "Highly Regarded - Banking (Florida)," 2021-2023
- Named, Client Service All Star, BTI Client Service All-Stars Report, Public Finance, 2019-2020
- Member, Winning Team, Global M&A Network’s Turnaround Atlas Awards, “Chapter 11 Restructuring, Mid-Market Segments (100-250)” for the restructuring of Lombard Public Facilities Corporation, 2019
- Member, Winning Team, TMA Chicago/Midwest Awards Program, “Small Transaction of the Year” for the restructuring of the Lombard Public Facilities Corporation, 2018
- Listed, Florida Trend magazine, "Legal Elite," 2007-2009, 2011-2013
- Listed, Orlando magazine, "The Best Lawyers in Orlando," 2010
- Rated, AV Preeminent® 5.0 out of 5.0
- Member, Florida Bar Association
- Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
- Member, New York State Bar Association
Credentials
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J.D., with honors, University of Miami School of Law
- Order of the Coif
- Articles and Comments Editor, Inter-American Law Review
- B.A., Chemistry, with honors, Duke University
- Florida
- New York