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

Representation of numerous cities, counties and utility districts as bond counsel
Serving as bond and underwriter's counsel for tax-exempt financings for non-profit health care institutions
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
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. He then joined the Knoxville office of Hunton & Williams, where he was an associate until 1990. Mr. Mamantov is listed in Best Lawyers®. Business Tennessee magazine has named him one of the best lawyers in the state of Tennessee every year since 2004, and recognized him as one of Tennessee’s 101 leaders in commercial real estate since 2007.

Mr. Mamantov has served on a number of civic boards. He is presently a board member and the past president of the Knoxville Symphony Society and a board member and president of the Tennessee Theatre Foundation. He was formerly a board member of the East Tennessee Foundation, the Knoxville Bar Association, the National Association of Bond Lawyers and the Webb School of Knoxville. Mr. Mamantov has served as chairman of the Bond Attorneys' Workshop, the Fundamentals of Municipal Bond Law and the Tax and Securities Law Institute, which are the three major seminars presented by the National Association of Bond Lawyers.