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Mr. Bernardo concentrates a significant portion of his practice in the area of tax-exempt financings and municipal law. Mr. Bernardo has been involved in the issuance of tax exempt securities as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, issuer’s counsel, borrower’s counsel and letter of credit bank counsel. He has also represented governmental interests in a variety of complex matters before state and federal courts.

Mr. Bernardo was named by Providence Business News as a 2006 40 Under Forty award recipient. In 2007, Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education (RISE) recognized Mr. Bernardo for his 10 years of service as a mentor to children whose parents are incarcerated. Additionally, he has been selected by his peers to be included in the 2007 and 2008 editions of The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Bernardo is chair of the Firm's Diversity Committee. He focuses on building upon the Firm's commitment to a diverse and enterprising workplace.

REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS

• Bond counsel in tax-exempt financings for universities and secondary schools.
• Bond counsel in tax-exempt financings for large health system obligated groups.
• Represented underwriter in first tax-exempt charter school financing in State of Rhode Island.
• Represent local communities in financing school, sewer, clean water and public building projects.
• Advise clients on securities laws affecting continuing disclosure obligations of issuers.
• Represented Governor of State of Rhode Island in federal court on Indian law matters.
• Represented Speaker of House Representatives in state and federal court on challenges to legislative reapportionment.

EDUCATION
Roger Williams University School of Law, J.D.,
   cum laude, 1998

University of Rhode Island, M.P.A.,
    magna cum laude, 1995

Rollins College, B.A., Economics, 1990

CLERKSHIP
The Honorable Ernest C. Torres,
United States District Court, 1998

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Rhode Island Bar Association
   Chairman, Municipal Law Committee
National Association of Bond Lawyers
Government Finance Officers Association
American Bar Association

PUBLISHED WORKS
'An Independent Judiciary Preserves our Constitutional Balance", The Providence Journal, August 9, 2001

"The Continuing Debate over Custodia Legis", Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, January 1999

"Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Title IX and Cohen v. Brown University", Roger Williams University Law Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1997

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education (RISE)
   Executive Committee
Moses Brown School Alumni Association
   Class Agent
Portsmouth Abbey School
   Volunteer coach for women’s hockey
St. Mary’s Bayview Academy
   Volunteer coach for middle school girls hockey

BAR MEMBERSHIPS
Rhode Island, 1998
Massachusetts, 1999
U.S. District Court, Rhode Island, 1999
U.S. District Court, Massachusetts, 2000
First Circuit Court of Appeals, 2002
U.S. Supreme Court, 2002