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Jesse Paul Albani

Senior Associate

San Francisco

Jesse Albani focuses his practice on public finance and project finance transactions.

Jesse regularly serves as bond counsel for multifamily housing, student housing and waste-to-energy facility financings. His recent experience includes the development and implementation of a successful tax-exempt financing program for the creation and preservation of affordable housing for middle-income families and individuals across California. In addition, Jesse frequently assists issuers, underwriters and developers with the structuring and financing of nonprofit and general governmental transactions throughout the United States.

Jesse also serves on the Board of Governors for The University of San Francisco School of Law.

  • Representative transactions include:

    • bond counsel to the Public Finance Authority in connection with the issuance of approximately $1 billion of tax-exempt bonds to finance an entertainment complex and retail shopping facility in East Rutherford, New Jersey;
    • bond counsel to multiple joint powers authorities in connection with the issuance of approximately $5 billion in aggregate principal amount of tax-exempt bonds for the acquisition of over 25 projects totaling nearly 10,000 units of publicly owned middle-income housing in California;
    • bond counsel to The California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank in connection with the issuance of $850,000,000 of revenue bonds for a high speed rail project in Southern California;
    • bond counsel to the Public Finance Authority in connection with the issuance of $37,940,000 of tax-exempt bonds to finance a student housing dormitory in Henderson, Nevada;
    • underwriter's counsel to a multinational investment bank in connection with its underwriting of $65,000,000 of tax-exempt bonds issued to finance a biosolids processing plant in Linden, New Jersey; and
    • underwriter's counsel to a multinational investment bank in connection with its underwriting of $136,000,000 aggregate principal amount of tax-exempt variable rate demand bonds issued to finance two multifamily housing projects in Glendale, Arizona.