Michael Larsen focuses his practice on the tax issues related to public finance transactions. He has experience in a wide variety of public finance transactions, having served as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, borrower’s counsel, and special tax counsel on financings for, among other entities, state and local governments, cultural institutions, public and private universities, hospital systems, water and sewer authorities, and single-family and multifamily housing authorities.
Michael has written and lectured extensively on the tax aspects of public finance transactions. He recently served as co-chair of a panel of the National Association of Bond Lawyers, providing comments to the Treasury Department and the IRS on reissuance standards for tax-exempt bonds. Before joining Parker Poe, he was a senior associate in the tax department of an international law firm.