Legal Services

The Vendor is required to provide legal services are needed across a broad range of federal, state, and local matters.
- The primary agency contact for each legal specialty area
•    Administration of federal funds appropriated through department of housing and urban development
•    Administrative law
•    Bankruptcy law
•    Eminent domain and inverse condemnation
•    Employment law and litigation
•    Environmental law and litigation
•    Fair housing and disability law and litigation
•    General business litigation
•    General municipal and public law
•    Residential landlord and tenant and unlawful detainer
•    Commercial landlord and tenant and unlawful detainer
•    Property contamination, act and brownfield cleanup
•    Public contracting and public works litigation
•    Public finance
•    Public housing authority law
•    Real property transactional
•    Real property litigation
•    Real property finance and regulatory agreements
•    Tort litigation
- Bond counsel
•    Bond counsel must demonstrate communication and interpersonal skills that are necessary to work as a part of a financing team with agency staff, office of the general counsel, underwriters, financial advisors and governing bodies. 
•    Significant experience in the area of multifamily housing mortgage revenue bonds
•    Bond counsel attorneys must each have a minimum of five years of experience in the realm of public finance.
- Legal services include, but are not limited to the following:
•    Assist in the structuring of the bond issuance.
•    Draft all bond documents. 
•    Prepare and distribute local public notice for act hearings. 
•    Participate in meetings, including presentations to governing boards, as requested. 
•    Provide on-going advice and support to the agency relating to bond issuances, refunding and other related issues, as requested. 
•    Provide tax opinion to the lender and other typical bond counsel opinions.  
•    With tax credit counsel, coordinate closings with funding sources, Title Company, insurance agency, contractor, architect, and other parties to assure accomplishment in a timely manner to meet the requirements of bond issuance, committees, the agency or any other funding sources.
- Budget: $450 million

- Contract Period/Term: 5 year
- First Pre-Bid Conference (Non-Mandatory) Date: September 18, 2025