DALLAS - McGuireWoods has hired Marcus W. Deitz as a partner on its public finance practice in Houston.
Deitz, formerly a partner at the firm Norton Rose Fulbright, has more than 15 years of experience in local and regional bond issues, firm officials said. Deitz handled bond deals in Denver and Houston.
"His experience across a wide range of transactions greatly enhances our ability to serve clients in Texas and nationwide," said Alan Cason, chairman of the Baltimore-based law firm.
McGuireWoods added the Houston office a year ago to serve the Texas markets. Deitz is the fourth public finance lawyer to arrive in the office.
"The addition of Marcus Deitz is an important step for McGuireWoods in establishing a practice with the depth and breadth clients need," said Thomas Farrell, managing partner of the Houston office. "Marcus is very well known in the public finance community from years of successfully guiding cities, counties, public school districts and junior colleges, state agencies and regional or special governmental authorities through very complicated financings."
Last year, Deitz guided a new convertible bond structure that benefits his clients by allowing an issuer's taxable debt to be easily converted later into tax-exempt debt at a predetermined rate without incurring reissuance costs. He has served as both bond counsel and underwriters' counsel on these convertible bond transactions.
Deitz earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995 and his law degree three years later from the University of Denver College of Law. He was an associate at Icenogle, Norton & Seter in Denver from 1999 to 2001, and a partner at Andrews Kurth for nearly 10 years before arriving in 2011 at Fulbright & Jaworski, now known as Norton Rose Fulbright.
"This is a firm with an intense focus on excellence in serving clients and I'm sure my practice will thrive here," Deitz said.
