Christie Lombard Martin leads the public finance tax practice at Mintz and focuses her practice on tax matters in connection with the firm’s roles as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, borrower’s counsel and purchaser’s counsel for a variety of municipal bond issues. She acts as bond counsel and tax counsel for issuers and conduit borrowers in the health care, government, education, financial services, and nonprofit sectors and is experienced with both taxable and tax advantaged bonds including governmental general obligation and revenue bonds, qualified 501(c)(3) bonds, working capital bonds, exempt facility bonds and other private activity bonds.
Christie works with issuers and conduit borrowers to develop and implement effective post-issuance compliance procedures. She assists with private use analysis and strategies and when necessary represents issuers and conduit borrowers in resolving issues through the IRS voluntary closing agreement program. Christie also represents issuers and conduit borrowers in connection with IRS bond examinations. Christie currently serves as the Chair of the National Association of Bond Lawyers Tax Law Committee. She is a frequent panelist at industry conferences and has served as editor-in-chief of the Federal Taxation of Municipal Bonds Deskbook.