Hirai, Brian T.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Year Joined Organization: 1996

Lawyer Overview

Mr. Hirai’s practice is concentrated primarily in public finance.  He has over 30 years of experience as a public finance attorney, serving variously as bond counsel, issuer’s counsel, underwriter’s counsel, borrower’s counsel, trustee’s counsel and credit enhancer’s counsel in a broad range of taxable and tax-exempt bond issues for state and local governmental units, including government infrastructure financings and conduit financings for non-governmental health care, educational, housing, industrial and commercial facilities.  Mr. Hirai’s public finance experience includes a wide variety of fixed and variable rate interest structures; private and governmental insurance, letters of credit, standby bond purchase agreements and other forms of credit or liquidity support for bond issues; capital lease transactions, including offerings of certificates of participation; various forms of pooled and composite offerings of securities; complex refunding transactions and tender offers; and innovative workouts of troubled financings.

Mr. Hirai also has substantial experience representing business entities and nonprofit organizations in a variety of business, corporate, health care and regulatory matters.

Prior to joining McCorriston, Mr. Hirai practiced for 18 years (1977-1995) with the law firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP (now Ballard Spahr LLP), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was a member of the firm’s public finance department and interdisciplinary health care practice group.

Areas of Practice

• Public Finance
• Health Law
• Bond Finance

West Practice Categories

Public Finance, Health & Health Care Law, Banking & Finance Law

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania, 1977
• Hawaii, 1996

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Hawaii State Bar Association, Business Law Section (Member)
• Hawaii State Bar Association, Real Property and Financial Services Section (Member)
• American Bar Association, Health Law Section (Member)
• American Bar Association, State and Local Government Section (Member)
• National Association of Bond Lawyers
• American College of Bond Counsel

Past Employment Positions

• Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Associate, 1977 - 1985

Education

• University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1977
  J.D.
  Honors: cum laude
  Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
• Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, 1974
  B.A.
  Honors: With Honors
  Honors: Phi Beta Kappa

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