Christopher N. Knight's Summary
Christopher N. Knight, a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP, is a member of the Finance & Financial Institutions Practice, with concentrations in public finance and asset-based lending. He was formerly the managing partner of the firm's Chicago office.
Mr. Knight's experience includes serving as bond or underwriter's counsel for approximately 650 public finance transactions nationwide, including general obligation, tax increment, special service area and school district financings, and financings related to airports, single and multifamily housing, sports facilities, pollution control, solid waste disposal, health care, education, industrial development, student loans, and public utilities. He has also represented banks as the provider of credit enhancement and loan facilities for approximately 350 public finance and other forms of structured financings, as well as trustees, investors, and other participants in the restructuring of defaulted municipal debt.
His community activities include the boards of directors of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, the Chicago Humanities Festival and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the board of trustees of the Writers' Theatre. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of The Economic Club of Chicago.
Mr. Knight is a law graduate of Duke University (J.D., 1971), where he was an editor of the Duke Law Journal, and received his undergraduate degree from Yale University (B.A., 1968). He is admitted to the bar in Wisconsin, North Carolina, Minnesota, Illinois, and New York and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fourth, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mr. Knight has been named a 2007 and 2008 Illinois "Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics Media, Inc. for his bonds/government finance work.*
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