Donna is co-chair of the Financial Services and Public Finance Group and also practices in the Public-Private Partnerships Group.
Donna focuses her practice on municipal and project finance law, including economic development, transportation, government, health care, and education. She serves as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, trustee's counsel, bank counsel and borrower's counsel for state, county, and municipal clients and for economic development authorities and non-profit entities in the implementation and financing of major capital initiatives that benefit public, private and non-profit entities (including, for example, hotel, hospital and health care facility, university and water and sewer transportation and treatment facility projects) and debt refinancings for public, for-profit and non-profit organizations. In addition, Donna counsels issuers on general obligation borrowings. Donna's practice also includes commercial lending and business transactions.
Donna also has extensive knowledge of various financing structures, including hedging instrument and synthetic fixed rate and variable rate debt.
As former deputy general counsel in the Pennsylvania Governor's Office of General Counsel (OGC), Donna was OGC's chief legal liaison with the Pennsylvania Housing and Finance Agency, the Department of Community and Economic Development, and the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority. She was OGC's liaison on all public finance transactions, working directly with the issuing agencies.