Daniel J. Bacastow

Dan Bacastow is a partner in Chapman and Cutler’s National Public and Health & Education Finance Department. For more than 37 years, he has assisted states, municipalities, hospital systems, and universities and their underwriters, as well as issuers, in successfully structuring, restructuring, and implementing major tax-exempt financings to meet their capital and infrastructure needs.

He has served as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, bank counsel, and borrower's counsel in financings and related transactions and has structured, negotiated, and implemented innovative fixed rate, variable rate, index rate, multimodal, commercial paper, 63-20, receivables, and put bond financing structures. He has participated in the structuring, development and implementation of innovative P3 financing structures in the governmental and infrastructure markets.  He has served as principal lender’s counsel and underwriter’s counsel in significant P3 structured tax-exempt bond offerings, from bid phase through structural close, including with respect to revenue bonds for toll-road and availability payment projects and for major university campus developments.

Dan has advised state and municipal issuers, health care systems, and universities with respect to continued compliance with tax-exempt bond document covenants, including in audits before the IRS. Additionally, he counsels clients with respect to securities law compliance, including in new offerings, remarketings and ongoing compliance, as well as proceedings before the SEC. 

Dan speaks regularly before industry groups regarding compliance and regulatory developments.

Dan started his legal career at Chapman. Prior to rejoining Chapman in 2014, he practiced in the health care and infrastructure groups at Jones Day.