EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
M&A is a multidisciplinary professional services firm and the preferred choice for institutional lenders, public authorities, property owners and developers who seek transactional law or commercial real estate services from a boutique firm active within the New York City Tri-State and Mid-Atlantic regions.
The firm brings considerable, high-level past performance as counsel to federal, state and local agencies, quasi-public, and financial institutions in a broad array of commercial real estate, regulatory and finance related matters. Our attorneys are adept at structured finance, leveraged and investment grade financing, asset-based financing, direct lending, subordinate and intercreditor transactions and tax and equity investments under IRC Section 42 with an emphasis on community reinvestment in affordable housing, education and LMI businesses and communities under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) for banks active in the DMV and NY Tri-State markets.
We counsel clients on complex corporate law, corporate governance, exempt securities, regulated entities, complex litigation, and investments in CRE (e.g., IRR, cap rates or risk analysis, documentation, and prioritization), including acquisitions, asset management, and discounted cash flow or IRR analysis during holding periods prior to disposition of various asset types.
From time to time the firm has handled HR and employment related matters and proceedings in federal and state courts along the east coast, in the states of Maryland, New York and in Washington, D.C. The Federal Housing Finance Administration engaged the firm as lead counsel in the federal district court for Maryland and secured a summary dismissal with prejudice. As lead counsel for the Office of the Attorney General, State of Maryland, the firm resolved several asset recovery matters for the Maryland Energy Administration at trial. Baltimore County, Maryland, Dept. General Services has engaged the firm to manage sensitive HR investigations involving the BCPD and other high-level executive offices.
We work closely with large banks and financial institutions, public sector stakeholders and governments, private foundations, ownership and non-traditional sources of capital that look to strategically redevelop or finance projects in historically underserved communities and businesses, including CDFIs for the purpose of originating loans to LMI individuals and communities for affordable housing, education and small businesses. In the past year we managed the redevelopment of the largest privately held advance leaning center for children in the state of Maryland and the reinvestment in rural development of energy efficient programs nationwide.
In 2023, the firm was awarded a multi-year contract by USDA, RUS, in support of its indenture practice and direct lending nationwide as finance counsel.
PUBLIC SECTOR TRANSACTIONS
The firm was awarded a GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract and is certified under GSA Schedule 520 (PSS) – Contract No.: GS-23F-0031X. Public sector clients rely on our services under NAISC codes: 541110, 541199, 561110, and 531210. We have exceptional CPARS and outstanding references in the public sector. Our GSA contract term has been extended and remains in effect during the second renewal term: 1/25/2022– 1/24/2026. Our Federal Supply Schedule is found under our GSA Schedule No.: GS-23F-0031X, CAGE: 5FW22, UEI: G5AHMC5VV8F4.
A list of our Public Sector Clients follows:
Past Performance:
• General Counsel, Federal Housing Finance Agency
• U.S. Department of Treasury
• General Counsel, National Science Foundation
• U.S. Department of Defense, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research & U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Office of Research and Technology Applications
• Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
• Office of the Attorney General, State of Maryland,
• Johns Hopkins University, Forest City – New East Baltimore Partnership,
• Prince George’s County, Maryland Redevelopment Authority.
Nine (9) Current or Recent Public Sector Awards:
• Office of the Attorney General, State of Maryland, Rail and Right of Way & P3 – Assistant Counsel
• U. S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Utility Service, Office of General Counsel
• United States Attorney (Dept. of Justice) – Georgia
• Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Office of General Counsel
• United States Attorney (Dept. of Justice) – Maryland
• General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service Office of Real Property Utilization & Disposal
• Baltimore County, Maryland, Dept. General Services
• National Credit Union Administration
Finance & Capital Markets
M&A has extensive experience representing both issuers, investors, financial institutions and federal and state authorities as they navigate today’s complicated capital markets and leverage finance deals.
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Utility Service, Office of General Counsel (Current Contract): M&A was engaged to provide legal advice and counsel to USDA, OGC to support USDA loans and grants for energy audits, renewable energy development assistance, energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy systems.
Large Banks and Institutional Financial Services Companies (Current Clients): M&A provides strategic and regulatory advice to banks and related parties under the CRA regarding IRC Section 42 investments to: (1) redevelop a charter school in Delaware, (2) finance nineteen (19) residential rental buildings containing sixty-three (63) units designated for low- income housing in Baltimore, Maryland financed in part through use of LIHTC and private investor funds, (3) establish funds or SPEs to provide up to $100M in investments – debt or equity – for affordable housing and small business throughout the bank’s CRA Assessment Area, and (4) issue up to $100M in Section 7(a) Loans guaranteed by SBA under 13 C.F.R. Part 120.
State of Maryland, Office of the Attorney General (“MD-OAG”) (Current Contract): M&A has a long history serving MD-OAG, Maryland Energy Division (MEA) from 2012-2017. We secured asset-based financing transactions using all asset types. The firm currently serves as outside counsel to MD-OAG under two (2) matters re: (1) the expansion of rail and right of way, and (3) P3 related matters.
Strategic Financial Services
Our private sector practice represents owners, developers, and accredited investors (institutional and non-institutional) in connection with commercial real estate projects.
GSA, Public Buildings Service Office of Real Property Utilization & Disposal (Recent Contract): counseled GSA on its real property portfolio in various capacities, including value added services, targeted asset reviews, real property sales and support services, and a full range of related strategic advisory services under a blanket purchase agreement.
National Association of Realtors (NAR), Real Property Operations (Recent Contract): oversight and asset management services for four (4) commercial buildings: (1) 500 New Jersey Avenue, Washington DC; (2) 430 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL; (3) 437 N. Rush Street, Chicago, IL, and (4) 7701 Service Center Dr, West Chester Township, OH.
Buckman Road Section II Partnership (Buckman Road) (Long Term Client): – legal, strategic, finance and brokerage services to ownership of 250,000 SF of retail and office space in Bowie, Maryland, including inclusion of Kaiser-Permanente as a new stakeholder within Fairwood Green Shopping Center, in Bowie, MD, which was acquired for 42M in 2007. The firm subsequently managed the center as legal counsel and as the real estate broker until substantially leased up in or around 2019.
Quality Time Learning Center (QTLC) (Long Term Client): legal, finance, strategic and brokerage services for ownership of 12M redevelopment project in Silver Spring, MD. M&A serves as legal counsel and CRE advisor to the largest privately held licensed advanced childcare center in the State of Maryland, which provides childcare and early learning programs for historically disadvantaged and at-risk infants and children ages 1 – 5 at level 5 standards. The Project has full entitlement, and the building permit has been issued by DPS to proceed to construction.
National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) (Recent Client): management and brokerage services to operate NCRC’s $185M Growth Fund to increase affordable housing throughout the DMV. During the engagement we targeted millions of dollars to acquire, rehab and dispose of assets to preserve and sustain affordable housing throughout the DMV, specifically in the City of Baltimore and Prince George’s County, Maryland.
Transactional Law
M&A is well-positioned generally to provide sound and critical legal services to support GC operations in the following areas:
• Capital Markets and Public Finance. Representing banks and accredited investors, et al.
• Tax and Equity Investments. Under Section 42 and in accord with CRA plans.
• Information Technology and Data: Advice and counseling regarding FOIA, licensing, privacy, and technology transfers.
• Agency Innovation: policy development, including best practices research, statutory review and modernization; benchmarking and best practices development; rulemaking support; and policy development.
• Intergovernmental Relations: Respond and interface with executive, federal and state agencies.
• HR and Employment Matters: Documentation for employer-employee relationships and the development of personnel policies; procurement and HR investigation services.
• Regulated Entity Support: investigation and examination support; market conduct examinations; administrative adjudications support.
• Complex Litigation: administrative and appellate level support.
Complex Litigation and Legal Support
M&A has provided litigation and administrative law support to federal and state agencies.
FHFA (Recent Contract): Diamond et ux. v. U.S. National Bank, et al., (the “Diamond Litigation”). M&A served as litigation counsel in defense of FHFA, a defendant in the Diamond Litigation filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and secured a dismissal with prejudice.
State of Maryland, Office of the Attorney General (“MD-OAG”) and Maryland Energy Administration (“MEA”): M&A resolved asset recovery matters for MEA at trial. See, State of Maryland (Confessed Judgment) (Anne Arundel County), Case No.: C-13-179410.
U.S. Department of Treasury, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“SIGTARP”) (Recent Contract): M&A provided staff attorneys and paralegal support under an initial contract renewed three times to serve SIGTARP dating back to the Spring of 2016.
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Office of General Counsel (2022- 2023) (Recent Contract): Six (6) staff attorneys worked closely with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Office of general Counsel, principally under Exemption 6 to alleviate a large FOIA backlog under intense pressure.
United States Attorney (Dept. of Justice) – Middle District of Georgia & United States Attorney (Dept. of Justice) – Maryland (Current Contract): M&A employs approximately twelve (12) paralegals under a multiyear contract to provide legal support to the department of justice at several locations in State of Maryland and the State of Georgia.
PREPARED BY CONTRACTOR:
K. TEYA MOORE & ASSOCIATES, PA (d/b/a MOORE & ASSOCIATES EIN/TIN: 52-276660
DUNS: 168741622
12530 Fairwood Parkway, Ste: 103
Bowie, MD 20720
CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR:
Kieyasien K. Moore,
Managing Partner
Phone Number: 301-860-0885
Fax Number: 301-860-0884
E-Mail: kkm@kteyamoore.com
Web Site: http://www.kteyamoore.com
