Thomas K. Vandiver

Thomas K. Vandiver is a Partner and Head of Dentons' US Public Finance practice in Los Angeles, focusing on public and municipal finance, affordable housing, and real estate finance transactions.

He has more than 34 years of experience structuring and implementing tax-exempt bond and other financing transactions, including project financings involving energy tax credits for photovoltaic and solar energy projects. He has served as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, counsel to financial institutions as private placement investors and lenders, and counsel to credit enhancers and trustees in hundreds of financing transactions involving billions of dollars of tax-exempt and taxable bonds. He is one of the leading lawyers in California for affordable housing transactions, representing major banks and financial institutions in Low Income Housing Tax Credit and New Markets Tax Credit transactions. He has also worked extensively on restructurings of troubled financings and derivative contracts.

Thomas holds a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law (1977) and a B.A. from DePauw University (1973).