Chiara supports our Economic Development and Public Finance Group in its representation of New York state agencies, local industrial development agencies, municipalities, school districts and special improvement districts. She is a member of a nationally recognized team serving as bond counsel and underwriting counsel on major state and local bond transactions.

Chiara supports the firm’s work in providing counsel to clients on statewide showcase economic development projects. She specifically helps construct tax-exempt bond financings and tax-incentive programs in the areas of health care, housing and education in public offerings, private placements and direct purchase transactions. Her public finance work includes representing various industrial development agencies and local development corporations, as well as national banks and lenders. She also has supervised and assisted in Minority and Women Business Enterprise matters, reviewing and counseling on regulations of status denials.

In addition, Chiara works on matters assisting the firm’s municipal clients on zoning issues and litigation matters , sometimes serving as village counsel.

During law school, Chiara served as Research Editor of the Touro Law Review. She graduated in the top 10% of her class and is fluent in Spanish and conversational in French.