Robert H. Beinfield
Hakins Delafield & Wood LLP
One Gateway Center, 24th Floor
Newark,
NJ
07102
Tel: (973) 642-1307 Fax: (973) 642-6773
Email: rbeinfield@hawkins.com
In Practice Since: 1985 ACBC Fellow Since: 2007
Specialties:
General obligation bonds, Municipal revenue bonds, Bonds backed by corporate or project revenues
Education:
A.B. Brown, 1982 J.D. Vanderbilt, 1985
Professional Affiliations:
American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, New Jersey Bar Association, National Association of Bond Lawyers
Biography:
Mr. Beinfield joined Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP in 1985 as an associate attorney and became a partner in 1995. He has specialized in public finance matters of New Jersey counties, municipalities, schools and state and local agencies and authorities. His work with such issuers has involved all phases of the authorization, sale and issuance of general obligation and revenue bonds and certificates of participation including attention to official statement preparation and review, priority of liens and other security considerations, refunding issues, arbitrage and other tax law related matters, and disclosure issues and other securities law related matters.
Mr. Beinfield has served as bond counsel or underwriters’ counsel in hundreds of financings in the State of New Jersey, including financings for municipalities, counties, school districts, sewerage authorities, municipal and county utilities authorities, county improvement authorities, housing authorities, parking authorities, fire districts, redevelopment agencies and other issuers. Mr. Beinfield has served as bond counsel to, among other issuers, the State of New Jersey, the New Jersey Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the New Jersey Water Supply Authority, and several counties and county agencies.
Mr. Beinfield has represented issuers and underwriters in other states including Connecticut, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York and Oklahoma. He has also represented foreign and domestic commercial banks in the role of indenture trustee in unit investment trust programs and in various municipal and corporate financings, including Trust Indenture Act qualified corporate debenture issues, private placements of short-term corporate securities, shelf registrations of public debt and public offerings of convertible debentures and asset backed certificates. In addition, Mr. Beinfield has advised indenture trustees in connection with non-bankruptcy and bankruptcy defaults.
Mr. Beinfield is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the American College of Bond Counsel, the Government Finance Officers Association, the Government Finance Officers Association of New Jersey and the New Jersey Institute of Municipal Attorneys and is a member in good standing of the bar of the State of New Jersey and the bar of the State of New York.