Attorney Patti Grant-Wilkinson to Open DC Office of Bryant Miller Olive

        WASHINGTON, DC – Bryant Miller Olive announced today that Patti Grant-Wilkinson is joining the firm and will serve as the managing shareholder of its newly-opened DC office. Formerly a partner in the Public Finance Group of Hunton & Williams, Ms. Grant-Wilkinson has served as bond counsel to numerous cities, counties and authorities, and has served as underwriter’s counsel, disclosure counsel, borrower’s counsel, developer’s counsel and bank’s counsel. During her 18-year career, she has worked on over 150 transactions in connection with the issuance of over $12 billion in tax-exempt bonds.
       Her clients have included the District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency, the District of Columbia, the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Prince George’s County, Maryland, and Miami-Dade County, Florida. She also has worked on numerous airport deals, privatized students housing deals in the Southeast, and served as counsel to Commerce Capital Access Program Corporation, in its capacity as designated bonding authority to the United States Department of Education for its Historically Black Colleges and Universities Loan Program.
       Duane Draper, who chairs the firm’s Public Finance Practice Group, said, “We have been seeking the right opportunity to expand the firm’s public finance practice to Washington and the Mid-Atlantic region. Patti’s qualifications, client contacts and her technical expertise are the perfect fit for Bryant Miller Olive.” Draper added that Len Marcinko, who chairs the firm’s Section 103 Tax Practice and is resident in the Atlanta office of Bryant Miller Olive, will work in close collaboration with the DC office and split his time between Atlanta and Washington. Marcinko is considered a leading expert in the federal income tax aspects of municipal finance law. He served as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service and was a principal author of income tax regulations and proposed legislation in the tax-exempt bond area.
       “As a firm committed to public finance, Bryant Miller Olive has made a strategic decision to broaden its client base and focus on growth in the Mid-Atlantic region, and is devoting its intellectual and economic resources to this mission. This is a unique opportunity for me to join the Bryant Miller Olive team, to continue the practice that I have developed and to broaden the base of clients that we will serve, in the Mid-Atlantic region, Florida and in the Southeast generally.” Grant-Wilkinson is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the Maryland Bar, the National Bar Association and the American Bar Association. She received both her Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from Georgetown University.

About Bryant Miller Olive

For more than 35 years, Bryant Miller Olive has provided its public and private sector clients with a blend of legal expertise, sophistication and detail-oriented service. The firm is rated “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell. Various attorneys with the firm have served as General Counsel to governmental agencies, are listed in The Best Lawyers in America, have been named among the Legal Elite by Florida Trend Magazine, and serve on professional and governmental boards and committees.

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