Bio

Bonita Black is a Partner who leads the firm's new Public Finance Practice. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Black was partner at a northeastern based boutique corporate and securities law firm. She brings experience with higher education, affordable housing (mufti-family and single-family transactions), utility bonds, electric and gas utilities, medical care facilities, water and sewer utilities, energy authorities, housing equity fund transactions and grants, HUD programs, 501(c )(3) organizations, churches, conduit issuers and financial advisors in public finance transactions. She serves as bond, issuer, underwriters’, disclosure, special HUD, Special, Company, Trustee, Agent and lender’s counsel to parties to public financings. Ms. Black has focused her practice in the areas of general corporate law, including but not limited to corporate, structured and public finance law, mergers and acquisitions and divestitures, and corporate and non-profit governance law. She has experience in the formation of corporate governance and compliance issues, municipal securities law, taxable and tax-exempt financings, securitization transactions, debt and equity offerings, cross border transactions, governmental bonds, telecommunications regulatory issues and real estate finance. Ms. Black has extensive experience assisting local and regional non-profit organizations with their legal issues, including formation, and board training and governance counseling, policy and procedure development, creative financing and tax issues. Ms. Black began her career on in New York City at Dewey and practiced in New York City for 13 years before moving back to Kentucky. She practiced at the largest firm in Louisville for 13 years before she was asked to open an office for a regional firm in Louisville, Kentucky where she served as its inaugural Managing Partner for four years. Ms. Black is on the board of Transit Authority River City and is Governance Chair for the organization. She joins White and Williams out of Louisville and will reside in our New York City office.