Helen Pennock

Helen Pennock is senior counsel and a member of Chapman's Banking and Financial Services Department and Public and Institutional Banking & Finance Group. Helen has extensive experience and deep industry knowledge across the public finance landscape, representing lenders, not-for-profit borrowers, governmental issuers, and underwriters. She serves as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, disclosure counsel, or borrower’s counsel for bond and other debt financings on behalf of colleges and universities, cultural institutions and other not-for-profit corporations, charter and private schools, municipalities, water authorities and public power agencies, transportation authorities, and affordable housing, infrastructure, and industrial development projects. Her work also includes advising on the securitization of municipal receivables.

Prior to joining Chapman, Helen practiced law with Am Law 50 and Magic Circle firms in New York and also served as Assistant Counsel at New York State Homes and Community Renewal, where she represented the agency in multifamily real estate transactions for bond-financed affordable housing.