Brian Walsh

215/864-8510 Telephone
215/864-9844 Facsimile
walsh@ballardspahr.com
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP
1735 Market Street, 51st Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-7599

Brian Walsh is a partner in the Public Finance Department and a member of the Energy and Project Finance Group, Health Care Group, Securities Group, and Transactional Finance Group. Mr. Walsh has acted as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, borrower’s counsel, trustee’s counsel, and counsel to banks providing credit enhancement in taxable and tax-exempt financings for health care facilities, college and universities, sports arenas, multifamily housing projects, geothermal facilities, cogeneration facilities, secondary schools, and industrial development projects.

Mr. Walsh has a wide range of experience in developing and financing projects domestically and in the Caribbean and the Middle East. He has represented project sponsors and developers in the development, financing, and acquisition of several waste-to-energy facilities, the proposed acquisition of a portfolio of independent power plants, and the development of geothermal and sludge disposal facilities. His representations have involved using senior and subordinated tax-exempt securities, along with commercial bank debt and a leveraged lease, to finance a domestic power plant, and taxable bonds, tax-exempt bonds and bank debt to finance a power plant in the Caribbean. Mr. Walsh has extensive experience in negotiating inter-creditor arrangements among senior creditors, mezzanine creditors, and subordinated creditors.

For the past 15 years, Mr. Walsh has represented the investment bankers in multiple financings for one of the nation’s most prestigious medical, educational, and research institutions. He has acted as special finance counsel to a major medical school in Philadelphia, assisted a financially-troubled urban academic medical center in the Midwest, and served as bond counsel to a multi-state nonprofit health care system. He also has been involved in financings for sub-acute care facilities, such as nursing homes, as well as assisted-living and retirement communities. In 1997, Mr. Walsh represented a group of Pennsylvania counties in negotiations for providing mental health and drug and alcohol rehabilitation services through a managed care organization.

Prior to joining Ballard Spahr, Mr. Walsh served as a professional staff member on the United States Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and as a legislative assistant to the late U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles of Florida.

Mr. Walsh is a member of the National Association for Bond Lawyers (NABL) and has spoken at NABL seminars. He is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association, and American Bar Association.

Mr. Walsh is a graduate of Harvard University (A.B., cum laude, 1972) and Georgetown University (J.D., cum laude, 1982).