LEGAL-17606 - USA (Passaic, New Jersey) - Bond Counsel Services - Deadline September 10,2026

Vendor needs to provide bond counsel services to the government authority located in Passaic, NJ.– Provide the City with legal guidance relating to, but not necessarily limited to:– Legal research and/or advisory opinions as needed.– Render the bond counsel’s opinion regarding the validity and binding effect of the bonds, the source of payment and security for the bonds, and the excludability of interest on the bonds from gross income for federal income tax purposes.– Prepare and review documents necessary or appropriate to the authorization, issuance, sale, and delivery of the bonds, coordination of the authorization, and execution of these documents.– Assist the issuer in seeking from other governmental authorities any approvals, permissions, and exemptions necessary or appropriate in connection with the authorization, issuance, sale, and delivery of the bonds.– Review legal issues relating to the structure of the bond issue.– Review or prepare those sections of the offering document to be disseminated in connection with the sale of the bonds that relate to the bonds, financing documents, bond counsel opinion, and tax exemption.– Assist the issuer in presenting information to bond rating organizations and credit enhancement providers relating to legal issues affecting the issuance of the bonds.