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Brendan Staley is a partner in King & Spalding's Washington D.C. office and a member of the firm's Corporate practice group. Brendan’s practice focuses on advising domestic and international companies seeking to expand or relocate in the United States, drawing on his prior experience representing state and local governments on a variety of economic development and infrastructure projects and related governmental financings undertaken in support of these projects.
Brendan advises companies across a wide range of industries in connection with the development of new corporate headquarters, manufacturing and distribution facilities, data centers and large office projects. He works with new and expanding businesses in identifying, negotiating and documenting all aspects of discretionary incentive packages.
He also represents real estate developers in connection with the development of mixed-use economic development projects and the structuring of special tax districts and tax increment financings to support these projects.
Before joining King & Spalding, Brendan maintained a public finance and public-private partnership practice. In particular, he advised governmental entities, private developers and lenders on the areas of federal tax and securities law relating to municipal securities, state and local government law, economic development incentives and public-private partnerships. His prior experience includes, among other things, structuring public finance and project development transactions for a range of public and private infrastructure and economic development projects, including stadiums, arenas, waterparks, roads and highways, street lighting systems, broadband infrastructure, convention and conference centers, government administrative facilities and water and wastewater facilities.
Prior to entering private practice, Brendan served as a law clerk to the Honorable Henry E. Hudson of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He also worked as a Counterterrorism Analyst for the Department of Defense before attending law school.
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