Dana Lach has returned to Foley & Lardner's healthcare finance, public finance, and finance and financial institutions practices, the law firm said Thursday. She will be working out of the Milwaukee office.
Lach was most recently with Polsinelli in Chicago. Her practice will be focused on counseling healthcare and other non-profit organizations, including colleges and universities, as well as investment banks, purchasers and commercial banks in various transactions.
"Dana's deep experience structuring complex securities transactions across many public sectors, particularly the healthcare industry, will play a key role as we work to sustain and grow our established public finance bench," Laura Bilas, chair of Foley's public finance practice, said in a press release.
Lach has served as counsel to investment banks, purchasers, and commercial banks in connection with tax-exempt and taxable financing transactions. Lach's participation as borrower's or underwriter's counsel on more than 150 securities transactions has totaled in excess of $20 billion.
She has also provided guidance to clients on post-issuance compliance, including ongoing tax, covenant and disclosure compliance. She has counseled clients in developing policies and procedures for both tax and primary and secondary market disclosure requirements. Lach also has experience providing guidance on remedial actions for changes in use of bond-financed facilities and information reporting for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form 990, Schedule K.
Additionally, Lach has counseled healthcare and other non-profit organizations, including colleges and universities, in tax-exempt and taxable bond transactions, commercial loans and in non-traditional financing products such as commercial paper programs and securitizations and derivative transactions.
"We are thrilled to welcome Dana back to Foley. Her immense knowledge in the healthcare, nonprofit and municipal financing arenas will contribute vastly to our existing and expanding client base," Linda Benfield, managing partner of Foley's Milwaukee office, said in a release.
Foley & Lardner ranked second in Wisconsin among bond counsel firms last year, working on deals valued at $816 million, according to Thomson Reuters. The firm provides legal and related services in various industries and employs about 900 attorneys in 20 offices.
