Richard J. Myslinski | McCarter & English, LLP

For over a decade, Rich has experience managing complex public finance transactions and other specialized transactions, such as debt and corporate restructurings, M&A and project financings.

Richard J. Myslinski focuses his practice in the area of Public Finance, where he has served as bond, underwriters’, borrowers’, bank, and trustees’ counsel. Rich concentrates primarily on bond financings involving acute and subacute health care facilities and economic development transactions.

Rich also represents educational institutions, community hospitals and health systems in complex M&A transactions, including the coordination of due diligence, merger/affiliation agreement negotiations, regulatory filings, and bond issuance. He has worked, or is working, on over a dozen New Jersey health care mergers/acquisitions in a range of capacities.

Rich also has specialized experience in large, complex financing transactions. He has acted as underwriter’s and borrower’s counsel in some of the largest tax-exempt bond offerings of the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, which were used to facilitate complex debt restructurings for large New Jersey health systems following the completion of numerous M&A transactions.

During the three years prior to joining McCarter & English in 2012, Rich practiced in the Project Finance department of a major New York law firm, where he represented financial institutions as well as sponsors and developers in connection with the construction, operation and financing of U.S. and cross-border energy projects and other infrastructure-related transactions.

Rich is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the National Association of Bond Lawyers, and the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Represented health systems and community hospitals in complex merger transactions, including the coordination of due diligence, merger/affiliation agreement negotiations, regulatory filings, and bond issuance. These representations include roles as underwriter’s and borrower’s counsel in the largest tax-exempt bond offerings of the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, which were used to facilitate complex debt restructurings for large New Jersey health systems following numerous merger transactions.

Served as bond counsel to a conduit issuer in a $250 million tax-exempt bond financing for a marine cargo handling company in order to refinance outstanding debt and expand the company’s container terminal at Port Newark to improve road and rail transport, increase container volume, and accommodate ultra large container vessels following the completion of the project to raise the roadway on the Bayonne Bridge.

Served as bond counsel to two conduit issuers in a $100 million taxable and tax-exempt bond financing for a South Jersey school for children and adults with developmental disabilities, autism, and acquired brain injuries in order to refund certain debt and to finance the relocation and construction of a new campus for the school’s primary facility.

Represented a nationally-renowned behavioral health facility in connection with its merger into one of New Jersey’s largest health systems. The merger will provide numerous improvements to the existing campus of the behavioral health facility and will provide a platform for its representatives to influence and enhance behavioral healthcare throughout the health system’s full continuum of care and service area, which encompasses most of the state.

Served as bond counsel to a conduit issuer in connection with a $130 million tax-exempt publicly-offered bond/bank financing for the construction and equipping of a start-up continuing care retirement community, the first new CCRC to be constructed in New Jersey in about a decade.