Michael P. Botelho represents municipal issuers, underwriters, trustees, letter of credit banks and purchasers in general obligation bond, refunding bond and revenue bond financing transactions. He currently represents the State of Connecticut as bond counsel in connection with its special tax obligation bond program, one of the State's major revenue bond programs, which funds statewide transportation infrastructure improvements. He also represents municipalities in bonding, education funding, real estate development, governance, personnel and other municipal law matters. He has extensive experience in the representation of underwriters in state, municipal and quasi-public agency financings including the issuance of the State of Connecticut's $2.27 billion general obligation bonds to benefit the State teachers' retirement fund.
Mr. Botelho represents the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development on funding, development and real estate matters, such as the Adriaen's Landing development, the Hartford convention center redevelopment and Pfizer's clinical trials facility development in New Haven. Additionally, Mr. Botelho provides advice to commercial banks, institutional lenders and borrowers in complex asset-based, real estate and construction lending transactions.
Prior to coming to the Firm in 1999, Mr. Botelho served as General Counsel in the State of Connecticut Treasurer's Office where he advised the state treasury in such areas as investments, public finance, securities law, unclaimed property, qualified state tuition programs, workers' compensation and employment law. Mr. Botelho has considerable experience working with a number of state and municipal offices, such as the Office of Policy and Management, the State Attorney General's Office and the State Department of Transportation.
Mr. Botelho is a frequent speaker on various bonding, financing and development matters involving municipalities including the disclosure requirements imposed on municipal issuers under federal securities laws.
He is a member of various professional and community organizations, including the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the Connecticut Government Finance Officers Association and the Connecticut Association of Municipal Attorneys. Mr. Botelho served as Vice Chair of the 2011 Tax and Securities Law Institute sponsored by the National Association of Bond Lawyers and he presently serves on NABL's Securities Law and Disclosure Committee. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Hartford Hospital Corporation and also sits on the Hospital's Finance Committee. Mr. Botelho served on the Governor's Commission on Unfunded Mandates, which was established in 2005 to examine state-imposed unfunded and partially funded mandates imposed on Connecticut's municipalities. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the March of Dimes (Connecticut Chapter). Mr. Botelho is a former member of the Connecticut Republican State Central Committee and currently serves on the Glastonbury Town Plan and Zoning Commission.
Mr. Botelho received his J.D., cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. and his A.B., magna cum laude, with High Honors in History, from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. While attending Bowdoin, he was a James Bowdoin Scholar for three consecutive years and received the prestigious Class of 1875 Prize in American History for work on his thesis, "The Origins of U.S. Nonintervention in the Spanish Civil War."
Practice FocusEducation
Professional & Community Associations
Publications
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J.D., cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C., 1991
-Dean's List -
B.A., magna cum laude, History, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 1988
-James Bowdoin Scholar 1985-1988
-Class of 1875 Prize in American History
-Thesis: "The Origin of U. S. Nonintervention in the Spanish Civil War" -High Honors
-Semester Abroad: University of Madrid, Spring 1987
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Congressman Rob Simmons, 2002 - 2006
Finance Committee
Campaign Committee - Connecticut Bar Association
- Connecticut Conference of Municipalities
- Connecticut Government Finance Officers Association
- Connecticut Republican State Central Committee, 2003 – 2009
- Connecticut Association of Municipal Attorneys
- Glastonbury Economic Development Commission, 2003 – 2009
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Glastonbury Republican Town Committee
First Vice Chairman 2000 - 2002
Executive Committee 2000 – Present - Glastonbury Town Plan and Zoning Commission, 2009 – Present
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Governor M. Jodi Rell, 2006
Finance Committee - Governor’s Commission on Unfunded Mandates, 2006 – 2007
- Governor’s Small Business Advisory Council, 2003 – 2009
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Hartford Hospital Corporation
Board of Governors 2008 - Present
Finance Committee 2009 – Present -
March of Dimes (Connecticut Chapter)
Chairman of the Board of Directors 2009 - Present
Board of Directors 2003 - Present
Public Affairs Chair 2005 – 2009 -
National Association of Bond Lawyers
Chair, 2012 Tax & Securities Law Institute, March 8-9, 2012
Vice Chair 2011 Tax & Securities Law Institute March 3-4, 2011
Securities Vice Chair 2010 Tax & Securities Law Institute, February 18-19, 2010
Securities Law and Disclosure Committee -
Republican Presidential Nominee John S. McCain, 2008
State Lead Counsel
Campaign Coordinator for First Congressional District
Delegate to Republican National Convention
- State of Connecticut
- U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
- "Opportunity Knocks for Community Banks," The Connecticut Law Tribune, December 1995
- "A New Day Dawning: The Role of Connecticut's Community Banks in the Post-Merger Era," The Commercial Record, July 1995
- "Unraveling the Workouts of the Early Nineties," The Commercial Record, June 1995
- Spanish - Basic
