Carlos A. Encinas

Public Finance and Health Care

• Closed billions of dollars in taxable and tax-exempt financings as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, issuer’s counsel, underwriter’s counsel, lender’s counsel, bank counsel, trustee’s counsel, company counsel, and developer’s counsel on fixed and variable rate debt.
• Counsel for the lender in the negotiation and closing of a tax-exempt loan to the largest public health care system in Florida.
• Counsel to a North Carolina 501(c)(3) health care system in the issuance of Cinderella bonds, an interest rate conversion and remarketing, and other tax-exempt capital financings.
• Counsel to a Georgia 501(c)(3) health care system in the negotiation and closing of an annual line of credit.

Infrastructure and P3

• Counsel to a developer for state of Georgia office buildings utilizing design-build-finance (lease-purchase financing) and design-build-finance-maintain models.
• Drafted procurement and project documents as part of the outside counsel team for the Texas Department of Transportation’s Southern Gateway, a $600+ million design-build highway project.
• Advised a state high-speed rail authority on federal financing agreements and other legal compliance matters related to its development of high-speed rail.
• Prepared a due-diligence report for a global highway concession company’s bid to acquire and modify concession interest in the Northwest Parkway toll road in metropolitan Denver.
• Advised on a university’s legal structure and prepared a due-diligence report on a master development agreement for the $1.1 billion University of California, Merced DBFOM campus expansion project as part of the lender’s counsel team for a consortium bidder.
• Advised a global infrastructure firm’s Brazil team on a U.S. airport security RFP and related general corporate matters.

Carlos A. Encinas is a senior associate with Alston & Bird’s Real Estate Finance & Investment Group. He focuses his practice on public finance, infrastructure, and real estate transactions, including public and private debt issuances, public-private partnerships (P3), and development incentives and financings.

Carlos acts in various roles, including as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, issuer’s counsel, underwriter’s counsel, lender’s counsel, bank counsel, trustee’s counsel, company counsel, and developer’s counsel.  His public clients have included cities, states, school districts, housing authorities, development authorities, transportation authorities, rail authorities, state higher education authorities, and state gas and electric authorities. His private clients have included financial institutions, investment funds, healthcare systems, renewable energy companies, and developers. In addition, local, national, and international companies in various industries have relied on Carlos to handle development incentives and financings, real estate transactions, and other matters.

Before joining the firm, Carlos served as an attorney-advisor fellow at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He also served as an assistant corporation counsel in the City of Chicago Department of Law, where he worked on P3s, general obligation and revenue bonds, interest rate swaps, tax credits, real estate finance and development (including tax increment financing and other development incentives), affordable housing, telecommunications, state and federal grants, and public pensions.

Carlos was listed in the “Ones to Watch” category of The Best Lawyers in America© 2021.

Languages

• Spanish

Bar Admissions

• Illinois
• Georgia (Not Admitted)

Education

• UIC John Marshall Law School (LL.M., 2009)
• UIC John Marshall Law School (J.D., 2008)
• University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (B.A., 2004)

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