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William L. Hirata
William L. Hirata

William L. Hirata

Partner

“Clients are able to focus on their primary job tasks with total confidence that Parker Poe will handle their capital funding needs.”

Profile

Bill Hirata has extensive experience in municipal financings. His clients include school districts, counties, cities, special purpose districts, municipal underwriting firms, financial institutions and bond insurers.

Experience Highlights

  • Regularly serves as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, issuer's counsel and trustee's counsel on a variety of municipal enterprise, higher education and general governmental financings
  • Serves as counsel to governmental clients on economic development, procurement and intergovernmental relationship matters

Honors

  • Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America in Public Finance, 2010-2012

Memberships

  • National Association of Bond Lawyers
    Member; Representative, Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council, 2003-2008; Chair, Fundamentals of Municipal Bond Law Seminar, 2006; Chair, Securities Law and Disclosure Committee, 2007-present
  • National Association of Bond Lawyers Tax & Securities Law Institute
    Faculty Member, 2005-2008
  • National Association of Bond Lawyers – Bond Attorneys Workshop
    Panel Chair, 2007-present

  • Charlotte

    Charlotte

    Three Wells Fargo Center
    401 South Tryon Street
    Suite 3000
    Charlotte, NC 28202

    t 704.335.9887

    f 704.335.9671

    billhirata@parkerpoe.com

Practices & Industries

Education

  • University of South Carolina
    JD, 1986
  • University of South Carolina
    MBA, 1985
  • Princeton University
    AB, 1982

Admissions

  • North Carolina, 2000
  • Maryland, 1990
  • South Carolina, 1986