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Maribel Mata Benedict Joins Katten Muchin Rosenman as Partner in Public Finance Practice
October 24, 2006
CHICAGO – Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP today announced that Maribel Mata Benedict has joined the Firm as a partner in its Public Finance Practice. Ms. Benedict will be based in the Firm’s Chicago office.
Ms. Benedict joins Katten after spending 12 years as a sole practitioner in the Law Office of Maribel Mata Benedict in Chicago, where she counseled a largely Hispanic client base on matters in the areas of municipal finance, civil litigation, real estate and estate law.
Ms. Benedict’s practice focuses on serving as co-bond and co-underwriter’s counsel in financing transactions. Since 2001, she has handled financing transactions in connection with approximately $2.4 billion in bond, tender note and tax anticipation warrant transactions. Her clients have included the City of Chicago and the Chicago Parks Department on the issuers’ side, as well as underwriters Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan and Bank of America.
Ms. Benedict is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, and Women in Municipal Finance. She is also listed in the Bond Buyer’s Municipal Marketplace Directory.
Ms. Benedict received her B.A. from Loyola University of Chicago and her J.D. from the Loyola University School of Law.
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP maintains one of the preeminent public finance practices in the nation. Its public finance attorneys have served as bond counsel or underwriter's counsel with respect to several thousand bond issues throughout the United States. The Public Finance Practice consists of highly experienced attorneys who devote their full-time to the public finance practice, serving as bond counsel to state governments, state agencies and authorities, counties, cities, school and other special-purpose districts, nonprofit corporations and local authorities throughout the U.S. Additionally, they serve as counsel to the leading national and regional investment banking firms in connection with the underwriting or remarketing of municipal securities, as well as to institutional lenders analyzing specific issues for possible long-term investment. The Practice is also active in representing trustees, other fiduciaries and corporate borrowers of tax-exempt bond proceeds. Its attorneys also serve in the capacities of special tax counsel and counsel to banks or other financial institutions providing credit enhancement.