Icenogle Seaver Pogue, P.C. assists clients in both the public and private sectors with financing, constructing and operating public infrastructure and related services including, but not limited to, highways, streets, parking, sidewalks and recreation trails, water treatment and distribution systems, sewer collection and treatment systems, parks and recreation facilities, and open space.

The firm is skilled in assisting clients in the financing of public infrastructure through the use of various funding sources and revenue streams, and its attorneys have served as general counsel in helping clients create more than $3 billion in revenue streams, utilizing:

• Fee revenues (e.g., tolls, user charges)
• Development fees, public improvement fees
• Ad valorem property tax
• Sales and use tax
• Special assessments
• Property tax increment financing
• Sales tax credit and increment financing

The firm helps clients leverage their funding sources through various forms of borrowing and partnerships, and its attorneys have served as general counsel in helping clients borrow in excess of $2 billion in tax exempt funds, working well with investment bankers and bond counsel.  Forms of borrowing and partnerships include:

• Tax exempt bonds and instruments
• Taxable bonds and instruments
• Mortgages
• Purchase money security interests
• Lease purchase arrangements
• Design/build/finance arrangements
• Public-public partnerships
• Public-private partnerships

The firm’s clients finance, construct or acquire, and operate infrastructure as diverse as:

• A 47-mile highway, generating toll revenues in excess of $100 million per year
• Water and sanitary sewer systems serving tens of thousands of customers
• Huge tracts of open space in new community developments
• A state-of-the-art athletic and tennis club, with indoor and outdoor tennis courts, three pools and a full range of recreational facilities
• Publicly accessible parks in residential and commercial communities
• Streets, parking, pedestrian ways and recreation trails in-city and through open-space areas
• Drainage facilities and detention and retention water features.

In addition to financing advice, the firm routinely advises clients regarding procuring, negotiating and administering contracts for design, construction and maintenance of public infrastructure.