Profile
Taylor Klavan focuses her practice on tax issues relating to public finance. She provides guidance as tax counsel on virtually all types of tax-advantaged state and local debt, including governmental financings, financings for 501(c)(3) organizations, financings in the airport and transportation sector, affordable housing facilities financings, and financings for solid waste disposal facilities and sewage facilities for large utilities and industrial operations. She collaborates with investment banker clients to develop innovative, tax-compliant strategies for structuring and marketing tax-exempt transactions, seeking to ensure that deals comply with the federal tax requirements while also helping stakeholders pursue their end-goals.
Taylor also has considerable experience with post-issuance compliance for tax-advantaged bonds, including private business use and private payment analyses, arbitrage issues in new money issuances, refunding and multipurpose bond issues, multipurpose issue allocations, and compliance with remedial action regulations. She frequently interacts with the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of clients in voluntary closing agreement program requests, audits of tax-exempt finance transactions, and private letter ruling requests.
Concentrations
- Complex project financings
- Airport special financings
- Stadium financings
- Tax-exempt debt
- 501 (c)(3) organization financings
- Hospital and health care financings
- Senior living financings and restructurings
- University and college financings
- Charter school financings
- Workforce and middle income housing financings
- Multi-source financing for multi-family housing
- Working capital financing
- Use of swaps as hedges in public finance transactions
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주요 경력
- Served as tax counsel for $4.2 billion financing for bond and commercial financing for the construction of a new Terminal 6 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, this deal was named Public-Private Partnership Deal of the Year by the Bond Buyer in 2022.°
- Served as tax counsel for restructuring of bond and commercial financing for the construction of a new Terminal 6 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, this deal was named as Green Financing Deal of the Year by the Bond Buyer in 2025.°
- Served as tax counsel for the tax-exempt bond and commercial bank financing of the acquisition by Tampa General Hospital of three for-profit hospitals from Community Health Systems, Inc.°
- Served as tax counsel for the over US$1 billion taxable and tax-exempt (under Section 142(m) of the Internal Revenue Code) bond financing for the northern extension of the I-495 Express Lanes in the Washington, D.C., metro area, which is owned and operated by Transurban Group, and this deal was named North American PPP Deal of the Year for 2022 by Proximo Infra news and data service.°
- Served as tax counsel for tax-exempt securitization transactions, including the historic $955.5 million Matching Fund Special Purpose Securitization Corporation bond offering, which included $933.7 million tax-exempt Series 2022A bonds and taxable $21.7 million Series 2022B bonds will, in part, be used to stabilize the U.S. Virgin Islands Government Employees Retirement System.°
- Served as lead tax counsel for the conversion of a health system’s over $800 million in tax-exempt or tax advantaged governmental bonds to tax-exempt 501(c)(3) bonds as a result of the health system converting from a pubic, governmental hospital system to a private nonprofit system. This conversion was estimated to, amongst other benefits, result in a gain for the governmental health system of approximately $1 billion in revenues over 10 years and provided the health system with greater opportunities to grow and scale services regionally.°
- Served lead tax counsel for the $600 million tax-exempt bond issuance, the proceeds of which were used to finance certain industrial sewage and wastewater treatment facilities for semiconductor manufacturing plants.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Klavan prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
- Adjunct Professor, American University, Washington College of Law, 2022
수상 및 주요 활동
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, “Ones to Watch”
- Public Finance Law, 2023-2025
- Tax Law, 2023-2025
- Real Estate & Infrastructure, 2022-2023
- Listed, The Texas Lawyer, “Rising Stars,” 2024
- Listed, The Bond Buyer, “Rising Stars,” 2023
- Member, Women in Public Finance, Texas Chapter, 2019-Present
- Sponsorship Chair, 2023-Present
- Executive Council, 2019-2022
- Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
- 103 Editorial Board, 2023-2026
- Steering Committee, 2023-2026
- Member, Women in Public Finance, Maryland Chapter, 2017-2019
- President, 2017-2019
학력 및 자격사항
- J.D., American University Washington College of Law
- M.B.A., American University Washington College of Law
- B.B.A., magna cum laude, University of Houston
- Texas
- District of Columbia
- Maryland