Partners

Frost Brown Todd LLC practices nationally in the New Markets Tax Credit area.  Frost Brown Todd attorneys provide formal legal opinions to support the transactions, consultation on QALICB eligibility, compliance and satisfactory transaction structure and have been working with CDE clients since 2008.  The Frost Brown Todd attorneys have provided transaction and compliance support for CDEs that have issued hundreds of millions of dollars of NMTC transactions, rendering formal legal opinions pertaining to eligibility, conducting reasonable expectations tests, substantially all tests, consulting on CDFI Fund annual compliance reporting on behalf of clients of Frost Brown Todd LLC, providing QLICI loan documentation, and working with more traditional forms of lending to help make transactions financeable.   See the Frost Brown Todd website.

Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP (BTVK) has partnered with RDP to assist with New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) application writing and in the preparation of community impact assessments.

BTVK’s tax credit practice includes all major tax credit programs including housing, energy, historic and NMTCs. The NMTC tax credit practice of BTVK provides support for NMTC transactions including structuring and modeling proposed transactions. In addition, BTVK provides impact assessment, loan servicing, bookkeeping services and/or preparing CIIS reports as requested by its clients. Through its affiliate, Baker Tilly Capital, clients can access application preparation and review services as well as assistance with raising capital from investors and assisting clients with underwriting transactions.

About Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP

Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP (Baker Tilly) is a nationally recognized, full-service accounting and advisory firm whose specialized professionals connect with clients and their businesses through refreshing candor and clear industry insight. With approximately 2,800 employees across the United States, Baker Tilly is ranked as one of the 15 largest accounting and advisory firms in the country. Headquartered in Chicago, Baker Tilly is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 147 countries, with 33,600 professionals. The combined worldwide revenue of independent member firms is $3.4 billion.  See the Baker Tilly website

Novogradac began operations in 1989 and has grown to become a national firm with more than 600 employees and partners. Tax, audit and consulting specialty practice areas for Novogradac include affordable housing, the new markets tax credit, historic rehabilitation and renewable energy. The firm recently launched a new practice focused on the opportunity zones incentive. See the Novogradac website.