R. Wade Norris, a founding partner at Norris George & Ostrow PLLC, is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading experts in the field of multifamily housing bond finance.  Since 1977, Mr. Norris has been involved in literally thousands of tax-exempt multifamily housing bond and loan financings totaling billions of dollars in every state in the United States, primarily as underwriter’s counsel or tax-exempt debt counsel to banks and other private placement purchasers of tax-exempt debt.  Mr. Norris played a major role in the design and development of the country’s leading bank private placement program, tax exempt short term cash backed bonds used with low rate taxable FHA insured and USDA rural development loans, the Freddie Mac TEL structure, the Fannie Mae M.TEBs structure, and, more recently, the use of tax exempt high yield bonds to create affordable workforce housing for both public and Section 501c3 borrowers.  

Mr. Norris has been a frequent speaker panel moderator or speaker member on multifamily housing bond finance over the past 40 years, now speaking at well over a dozen industry-housing conferences each year.  Mr. Norris' paper entitled "Introduction to Tax-Exempt Multifamily Housing Bonds" is widely regarded as one of the industry’s leading introductory articles on tax-exempt multifamily housing bond finance, and Mr. Norris regularly authors a number of other papers on various aspects of tax-exempt multifamily housing bond finance, which are available on the firm’s website: www.ngomunis.com.