Managing Partner
Raymond S. McGaugh
Raymond McGaugh is a licensed corporate, municipal, real estate and securities attorney with over 30-years of experience. Raymond has extensive experience representing clients including commercial & investment banks, commercial & mortgage lenders, investment management firms, broker-dealers, corporations and municipalities.
Biography
Raymond McGaugh is a licensed corporate, municipal, real estate and securities attorney with over 35-years of experience practicing law. Throughout his career, Mr. McGaugh has represented of banks, commercial lenders, mortgage lenders, investment management firms, broker-dealers, corporations, municipalities and investment banks involved in matters of corporate finance, municipal finance, credit corporations, financial institutions, multi-national corporations and municipal corporations.
During his legal career, Mr. McGaugh has served as bond counsel, co-bond counsel, disclosure counsel, co-disclosure counsel, underwriter’s counsel, co-underwriter’s counsel, bond purchaser’s counsel, trustee’s counsel, bond insurer’s counsel, swap counsel, co-swap counsel, counsel to issuers of letters of credit, interest rate swaps and other liquidity and credit enhancement facilities, on a variety of municipal and corporate transactions. These transactions include both tax-exempt and taxable financings that involve general obligation bonds, tax anticipation notes, revenue anticipation notes, “double barrel bonds,” commercial paper, housing bonds, empowerment zone bonds, Native American bonds, mortgage revenue bonds, project finance, hotel finance, industrial development bonds, equipment notes, bond defeasances, bond escrow restructuring and tax increment financings.
Additionally, Mr. McGaugh has provided advice and counsel to issuers of interest rate swaps, letters of direct pay and standby credit, surety bonds, and other liquidity and credit enhancement facilities in connection to both tax-exempt and taxable financings. He has also represented clients in the restructuring and workout of corporate and municipal finance transactions.
Education
● J.D. – Creighton University School of Law, cum laude (1984)
● M.A. – Health Administration, Georgia State University (1978)
● B.A. – Psychology, Creighton University (1976)
Licenses (FINRA)
● Series 7 – General Securities Representative
● Series 24 – General Securities Principal
● Series 27 – Financial and Operations Principal
● Series 63 – Uniform Securitiees Agent State Law
● Series 65 – Investment Advisor
Admissions
● Illinois (1988)
● Nebraska (1984)
Affiliations
● Creighton University School of Law Advisory Board (Board Member, present)
● Chicago Community Loan Fund (Board Member, present)
● Illinois Senate Committee on Pensions and Investments (Former Pro-bono Counsel)
● Illinois Senate Select Committee on Pensions and Investments (Former Pro-bono Counsel)
● Chicago Mortgage Attorneys Association (Former Board Member and former President)
● Creighton University National Alumni Board (Former Board Member)
● Nebraska Legal Aid Society (Former Board Member and former Vice-President)
● Profit Value Fund (Former Board of Trustees Member)
● Chicago Architecture Foundation (Former Board Member)
● NASD Regulation’s, Inc (Former Member, Office of Dispute Resolutions)
Accolades
● Omaha (Nebraska) Technical High School, Hall of Fame Inductee, 2008