Leonard Weiser-Varon

Professional Biography

Len specializes in municipal and corporate debt transactions,  represents state sponsors and private program managers of Section 529 college savings programs and Section 529A (ABLE) disability savings programs, and is often invited to speak on securities and constitutional law issues impacting finance. He also regularly writes on public finance matters and has been recognized as one of the top public finance lawyers in Massachusetts in a peer survey by Massachusetts Super Lawyers.

Len is active in both municipal finance and corporate finance, with an emphasis on financings for 501(c)(3) institutions, project finance, secured lending, structured finance transactions, workouts and restructurings, corporate debt, Section 529 college savings programs, and Section 529A (ABLE) disability savings programs.

His practice includes service as bond counsel, issuer’s counsel, underwriters’ counsel, and counsel to institutional purchasers and borrowers in connection with public offerings and private placements of, and defaults and bankruptcies involving, tax-exempt and taxable debt for public, nonprofit, and corporate entities. Len also serves as state sponsor’s counsel and program manager’s counsel on various Section 529 and Section 529A (ABLE) programs. He also is experienced in obtaining SEC no-action letters and negotiation of IRS closing agreements.

Len is a panelist on securities and constitutional law matters and on Section 529 and ABLE programs, and has published articles and edited textbooks on a variety of finance-related topics.

Before joining the Mintz Law Firm, Len clerked for Associate Justice Ruth I. Abrams of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

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