Ursula H. Hyman is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins and has practiced with the firm since 1983. She currently leads the firm’s Public and Tax-Exempt Financing Practice and serves on the firm's Pro Bono Committee, Diversity Committee and is the firm’s global Chair of the Mentoring Committee.
Ms. Hyman represents a variety of entities in their various roles in financings and restructurings, including:
- Tax-exempt organizations (including colleges, universities, hospitals, museums, research institutions and cultural organizations, schools and other entities)
- Real estate developers
- Issuers
- Underwriters
- Banks
- Bond insurers
- Land owner associations
She also participates in governmental discussions on behalf of her clients and closely monitors local, state and federal legislative developments.
Ms. Hyman represents or has represented numerous tax-exempt organizations with respect to the issuance of tax-exempt bonds and other matters:
- City of Hope and City of Hope National Center
- California Institute of Technology
- University of Southern California
- Pepperdine University
- Retirement Housing Foundation
- J. Craig Venter Institute
- J. David Gladstone Institute
- J. Paul Getty Trust
- Music Concourse Community Partnership
- The Colburn School
- California Science Center Foundation
She also represents several underwriters on tax-exempt bond transactions:
- Goldman Sachs
- JPMorgan, Chase & Co.
- Lehman Brothers, Inc.
- Stone & Youngberg LLC; a division of Stifel Nicolaus
- Prager Co. LLC (Formerly Prager Sealy & Co.)
- Banc of America Securities
Ms. Hyman represents numerous developers with respect to tax-exempt infrastructure financing and in the development and implementation of an infrastructure financing plan for their respective master-plan communities or developments:
- Integral McCandless, LLC
- Colony Kakau Development Company (Hawaii), LLC
- Gaylord Entertainment
- Hillwood Development
- Poag & McEwen
- Shea Homes
- Redwood City Plant Site (LLC)
- Garden Grove MXD, LLC
She has also represented several jurisdictions on land secured work-out matters:
- County of Riverside
- County of San Bernardino
- City of Hesperia
She has participated in a number of transactions that involve unique public/private partnership financing plans utilizing federal and state funds, special taxes and exactions.
In addition to her expertise in bond and infrastructure matters, Ms. Hyman concentrates on issues involving disaster recovery funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (OES):
- Valley Presbyterian Hospital
- Balcor Management Company
- Beverly Hills Unified School District
- Brandeis-Bardin Institute
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
- Jewish Home for the Aging
- Orthopaedic Hospital
- Saint John’s Health Center