Successful Investing in Charter Schools Part III - Market Advancements

The Bond Buyer
June.07.2017

Every other year, Orrick and the Bond Buyer present an overview of the charter school facilities bond sector, highlighting transaction fundamentals, sector-level research data, and credit and structure trends. This year, in Part III of the series, the webinar examines the expanding array of financial tools used by charter schools to address facilities needs by assembling a roster of experienced market participants to present current trends and analysis on the sector.

Todd Brewer and Eugene Clark-Herrera of Orrick review transaction fundamentals and discuss trends affecting the growth of the sector. Drew Masterson of First Southwest a Division of Hilltop Securities, Paula Permenter of BB&T Capital Markets and Oscar Davis of Regions Bank, provide insights regarding evolving credit structures for both public capital markets and commercial loan facilities financing for charter schools.

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Eugene Clark-Herrera Partner, Public Finance

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Eugene Clark-Herrera Partner

San Francisco

In addition to traditional project finance, revenue, general obligation and other tax supported municipal bonds, Eugene has experience with a variety of financing structures and characteristics, including private activity bonds, structured products, securitizations, pension obligation bonds, swaps and synthetic fixed rate bonds, and various reinvestment vehicles. Early in his career, he pioneered capital markets access for California public charter schools and advised governmental issuers, foundations, advocacy groups and policy makers in the development and expansion of public charter school access to tax-advantaged financing. He has also structured innovative philanthropic investments designed to lower facilities financing costs for public charter schools across the country,

Eugene serves on nonprofit organization boards, including: the Mural Music & Arts Project, an arts-based youth development organization he founded in East Palo Alto, California, to educate, inspire and empower teens through the arts; California Lawyers for the Arts, serving the creative arts community statewide; and the Flywheel Fund, an income sharing-based law school tuition assistance program. He also serves on the steering committee for the Just the Beginning Foundation's San Francisco Bay Area youth education and pre-law programs.

Prior to joining Orrick, Eugene was a public school teacher and science curriculum developer in the South Bronx and Washington Heights neighborhoods of New York City from 1993 to 1998. He is an alumni of the Teach for America Corps.