Mr. John M Kamins

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Shareholder

  Firm Name

  Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C.
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Representative Matters
  Assisted a VEBA trust for a large county's retiree medical benefits in 2007. He devised
  helped to implement an unprecedented securities transaction for funding more than $500 million of unfunded accrued actuarial OBEB liabilities.
  A publicly traded electric utility corporation wanted to finance str
  ed costs in connection with its state's deregulation of electricity. John helped it to accomplish a complex $1.75 billion securitization bond offering in 2001.
  In February 2010, he advised the board of directors
  management of a charitable non-profit on their duties
  actions to address
  resolve an urgent
  confidential matter. He regularly provides counsel of this kind for crisis control
  communications.
  A large, multi-state, multi-hospital health care corporation wanted to enter a new non-mortgage master indenture to coexist with an outst
  ing mortgage master indenture for more than $1 billion of tax-exempt bond debt until a future triggering event. The company relied on John, who in a period of 42 consecutive hours drafted contractual
  disclosure language for the first bond offering under both indentures.
  John successfully briefed
  presented oral argument before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, upholding a small new company's federal trademark registration over the opposition of one of the world's largest breakfast cereal companies