Alan L. Pasternack

Alan is in our Public Finance, Tax Incentives and Credit Markets Group. He focuses his practice on representing non-profit corporations, for-profit businesses, and developers in structuring, negotiating and documenting transactions involving tax advantaged investing and community development.

BIO

Alan Pasternack is a tax and transactional attorney specializing in business and real estate transactions involving tax advantaged investing and community development. Alan concentrates his practice on representing non-profit corporations, for-profit businesses, Native American tribal governments, and developers throughout the United States in structuring, negotiating and documenting transactions in which a significant portion of the financing is derived from federal and state new markets tax credits, historic rehabilitation tax credits, low-income housing tax credits, tax-exempt bonds, and other government loans and grants. Services provided include:

- Assist clients with transactions twinning new markets tax credits with federal and state historic rehabilitation tax credits. 
- Advise on structuring transactions involving both new markets tax credits and tax exempt bonds. 
- Structure transactions in which the leverage is derived from state, county, and city grant programs, grants from the United States Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and loans guaranteed by the USDA under its Business and Industry Loan Guaranty Program.
- Structure transactions combining federal and state new markets tax credits utilizing both side by side and stacked structures. 
- Devise strategies and advise clients on structuring transactions to qualify for new markets tax credits for the benefit of targeted populations located outside of traditional low-income communities.
- Partner with Tribal counsel in advising Native American tribal governments on utilizing Federal and State new markets tax credits to finance projects for the benefit of native American tribes.