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.