Mintz Levin Serves as Bond Counsel in Financing of New Global Headquarters for Goldman Sachs

Business Wire, Oct 24, 2005

NEW YORK -- Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. announced that it served as the lead finance counsel in the $1.265 billion Liberty Bond financing for the new Goldman Sachs World Headquarters building in Lower Manhattan. The transaction is the second largest municipal bond deal in New York State this year.

The Mintz Levin team consisted of public finance attorneys: Jonathan Ballan, Gregory Sandomirsky, Robert Senzer and Christina Gable; municipal bond tax attorney Michael Solet; and real estate attorney Steven Friedberg, all of whom played vital roles in bringing the transaction to completion.

Jonathan Ballan, a senior member of Mintz Levin's municipal finance department in New York, said: "We are proud to have worked for years to help bring this large transaction to fruition. As bond counsel to the issuer, the New York Liberty Development Corporation, we worked closely with the Pataki administration and Goldman Sachs to creatively structure a financing that is a major step forward in the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan."

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