Donald Field

Donald Field is a partner in Orrick's Public Finance Group and the co-chair of Orrick’s School and Community College Finance/General Obligation Bonds Practice Group.

He is also a member of Orrick's Leasing Practice Group, Assessment/Mello-Roos Practice Group, and Revenue Practice Group. Don has extensive experience, as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter's counsel, in the financing techniques used by school and community college districts, cities and counties in California. His practice focuses on local governmental infrastructure financing, including general obligation bond financing, municipal lease financing, and land-secured financing, as well as tax and revenue anticipation note (TRAN), pension obligation and other post-employment benefit (OPEB) obligation financings. Don serves as the lead lawyer for the California School Boards Association's annual tax and revenue anticipation note pool.

Publications:

• Principal author and editor of “The XYZs of California School District Debt Financing,” published by Orrick in 2005.

Speeches and Programs:

• Co-Chair, The Bond Buyer's California Public Finance Conference (September 2016)
• California School Boards Association's Annual Conference (2009-2017)
• Coalition for Adequate School Housing's Annual Conference (2006-2017)
• Coalition for Adequate School Housing's Spring Conference (May 2007, March 2009)
• Coalition for Adequate School Housing's Facilities Leadership Academy (November 2007; November 2008; November 2010)
• Coalition for Adequate School Housing's Fall Conference (October 2011)