David L. Dawson
Shareholder; Member of Executive Committee
Austin
401 Congress Avenue
Suite 2100
Austin, Texas 78701
512.370.2847 Direct
512.370.2850 Fax
ddawson@winstead.com
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Profile

David has 19 years of experience in providing clients counsel in all aspects of bond counsel, financial structuring and underwriting matters.

Unique Lawyer Experience

  • Governmental Transactions
  • Military Housing
  • Hotel Finance
  • Multifamily Housing

Representative Experience

  • Counsel to underwriters for 17 public-private housing partnerships, involving over $3 billion in debt, between private developers and the United States military
  • Counsel to Southwest Airlines for the $500 million Love Field Modernization Project, a public-private partnership between the City of Dallas and Southwest Airlines
  • Initial purchaser and bondholder counsel for more than $3 billion in 144A taxable revenue bonds for military housing privatization projects for the United States Air Force, Army and Navy
  • Underwriter, developer and corporation counsel for more than $2 billion in convention center hotel projects including the 800-room Austin, Texas, convention center hotel project
  • Developer's counsel for the 700-acre Austin Robert Mueller Airport Redevelopment Project and related tax increment reinvestment zone
  • Counsel to private developer for the $1.3 billion privatization of SH130 segments 5 and 6
Industries
    Bar Admissions
    • Texas, 1993
    Languages
    Education
    University of Texas School of Law
    • J.D., 1992
    University of Texas at Austin
    • B.B.A., Accounting, 1987
    • Honors Business Program
    Professional & Community Involvement
    • State Bar of Texas
    • Austin Bar Association
    • American Bar Association
    • National Association of Bond Lawyers
    • Austin Young Lawyers Association
    • KIPP Austin College Prep (Finance Committee)
    • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas, Inc. (General Counsel, Big Brother)
    • Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas (Legal Counsel for indigent clients)
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