Henryka W. Craig

Henryka Craig represents clients in a wide range of public finance and equipment finance matters, with a focus on special taxing district and tax increment financing of land-based public infrastructure improvements, financing of senior living facilities and lease finance of rail and other equipment classes.

She has more than 25 years of public finance and equipment finance experience. In her public finance practice, Henryka represents issuers, underwriters, placement agents, developers, borrowers and bond trustees in tax-exempt and taxable issues of governmental bonds, revenue bonds, charter schools and 501(c)(3) financings, private activity bonds, bonds supported by bond insurance and letters of credit, public issues, private placements, bank-qualified bonds and developer-held bonds. 

Henryka also serves as counsel to underwriters and placement agents in tax-exempt and taxable bond issues financing senior living facilities that range from startup to well-established communities providing a range of independent, assisted living and continuing care services offered by nonprofit and for-profit providers.

Henryka has extensive experience financing public infrastructure improvements for residential, commercial and mixed-use developments using special taxing district and tax increment financing (TIF) bonds. She advises developers, represents financial institutions as underwriters and placement agents and serves as bond counsel in the special tax and TIF financings of infrastructure improvements for economic development projects throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. 

She regularly assists financial institutions as lessors and lenders, operating lessors, equipment finance companies and for-profit and nonprofit entities as lessees and borrowers in equipment leasing and other finance matters involving a wide array of equipment classes. Henryka has particularly deep experience in rail finance, where she has represented clients in single and multiple investor leases, true-lease, lease-intended-for-security, triple-net and operating leases, purchases and sales of lease portfolios and lease restructurings. She also helps clients with developing, structuring and documenting equipment leasing programs for various equipment assets.