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Mr. Mamantov is a founding Member of the firm's Knoxville office and also serves as the administrator of that office. Mr. Mamantov's practice is primarily transactional, with a special emphasis on tax-exempt finance, commercial lending and real estate. Mr. Mamantov's legal experience includes:

Representation of numerous cities, counties and utility districts as bond counsel
Serving as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel and bank's counsel in variable rate tax-exempt bond financings, particularly for manufacturing and housing facilities
Representation of developers and tenants in retail, industrial and office development
Serving as bond counsel for multi-family housing transactions
Representation of lending institutions in numerous credit facilities, including large credit facilities for public companies and syndicated credit facilities
Representation of issuers and developers in connection with tax abatement and other economic development incentives
Serving as bond and underwriter's counsel for tax-exempt financings for non-profit health care institutions.
Representing governmental entities and businesses in tax increment and special assessment financing transactions.

Mr. Mamantov graduated in 1981 from the University of Tennessee, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1984. In law school, Mr. Mamantov served as articles editor of the Virginia Law Review and was selected for the Order of the Coif. Immediately following law school, he clerked for Judge Boyce F. Martin on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Mr. Mamantov then joined the Knoxville office of Hunton & Williams, where he was an associate until 1990. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America®, and has been named one of the best lawyers in the state of Tennessee every year by Business Tennessee magazine since 2004. In 2007, he was also named one of the top 101 commercial real estate attorneys in the state by Business Tennessee magazine.

Mr. Mamantov has served on a number of civic boards and presently is the president of the Knoxville Symphony Society and a board member of the Webb School of Knoxville. He formerly was a board member of the East Tennessee Foundation and the Knoxville Bar Association. In 2002, Mr. Mamantov served as chairman of the Bond Attorney's Workshop sponsored by the National Association of Bond Lawyers and served on the board of directors of the National Association of Bond Lawyers. Mr. Mamantov has also chaired the Fundamentals of Bond Law Seminar sponsored by The National Association of Bond Lawyers.