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Adam Christenson

Partner

Location:
Boise
Phone:
208.388.4815
Fax:
208.954.5951
Email:
achristenson@hawleytroxell.com

Biography

Adam Christenson concentrates his practice in the areas of public finance and municipal law. He serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriter’s counsel, bank counsel, and issuer’s counsel in a wide variety of tax-exempt and taxable public finance transactions. Adam has extensive experience in annual appropriation lease financings, including certificates of participation and lease revenue bonds, as well as in transactions involving general obligation bonds, sewer and water revenue bonds, tax and revenue anticipation notes and warrants, 63-20 (on behalf of) financings, community infrastructure districts, local improvement districts and assessment district bonds. In addition, he serves in a general counsel capacity to a variety of governmental entities throughout Idaho.

BAR ADMISSIONS

Idaho

United States District Court, District of Idaho

PROFESSIONAL/COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS

National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL)

Phi Beta Kappa Society, since 2004

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Boise 2016-2018

Idaho Business Review’s Accomplished Under 40 Honoree, 2020

Idaho Business Review’s Leaders in Law – Up & Coming Lawyer Honoree, 2017

EDUCATION

Law School:

University of Colorado School of Law, J.D., 2007

Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, Notes and Comments Editor

Undergraduate:

University of California Los Angeles, B.A. History, Minor in Accounting, magna cum laude, 2004

ARTICLES & PRESENTATIONS

Force Majeure and COVID-19,” March 2020

Amendments to Municipal Securities Disclosure; What Lenders Should Know,” October 2018

Clarifying Commercial and Construction Lending Licensure Requirements,” May 2017

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