Michael P. Botelho
Shareholder, Hartford
Michael P. Botelho serves as the Chair of the Firm’s Public Finance/Public Law Practice Group. Mr. Botelho represents issuers, borrowers, purchasers, underwriters, trustees and letter of credit banks in general obligation bond, refunding bond and revenue bond financing transactions. His practice includes the representation of municipalities in governance, education funding, real estate development and other municipal law matters. Mr. Botelho’s bond counsel clients include the Capital Region Development Authority, Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated and numerous Connecticut municipalities. Attorney Botelho also serves as bond counsel to ECO Maine, a solid waste and recycling facility comprised of and serving the City of Portland, Maine and more than 60 other municipalities in southern Maine. In addition, he serves as special counsel to the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority on its bond financings. He has also represented 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. Mr. Botelho represents the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, the Connecticut Department of Housing and the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority on funding, development, tax credit, affordable housing, and real estate matters. Additionally, Mr. Botelho provides advice to commercial banks, institutional lenders and borrowers in the direct purchase of tax-exempt debt obligations and complex asset-based, 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 on public finance, securities law and investment matters. Mr. Botelho has considerable experience working with several state agencies and commissions, such as the State Bond Commission, 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.
Mr. Botelho is a fellow of the American College of Bond Counsel. He has received an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell and was named Super Lawyer in Connecticut in the area of Government Finance (2015-2017).
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J.D., cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C., 1991
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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
- American College of Bond Counsel
- Bowdoin College
Class Agent 2015 - Present - Connecticut Bar Association
- Connecticut Conference of Municipalities
- Connecticut Government Finance Officers Association
- Connecticut Association of Municipal Attorneys
- Glastonbury Economic Development Commission, 2003 - 2009
- Glastonbury Town Plan and Zoning Commission, 2009 - 2022
Secretary 2016 - 2022 - Governor’s Commission on Unfunded Mandates, 2006 - 2007
- Governor’s Small Business Advisory Council, 2003 - 2009
- Hartford Hospital Corporation
Board of Governors 2008 - Present - Hartford HealthCare Corporation
Finance Committee 2009 - 2017
Pension Subcommittee 2012 - 2014 - March of Dimes (Connecticut Chapter)
Executive Leadership Committee, March for Babies 2015 - 2016
Chairman of the Board of Directors 2009 - 2012
Board of Directors 2003 - 2014
Public Affairs Chair 2005 - 2009
2012 Leadership Award - National Association of Bond Lawyers
Co-Chair, Issuer's and In-House Counsel Committee 2020-2025
Chair, Disclosure Policy Committee 2019-2020
Chair, 2012 Tax and 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
- State of Connecticut
- U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- “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
- Panel Chair, The Institute: “Securities Law Considerations Concerning Limited Public Offerings and Private Placements” Sponsor: National Association of Bond Lawyers, March 9-10, 2023
- Faculty Member, The Workshop: “SEC Enforcement” Sponsor: National Association of Bond Lawyers, October 13-15, 2021
- Panel Chair, The Institute: “Understanding the Roles of Disclosure Counsel and Underwriter’s Counsel” Sponsor: National Association of Bond Lawyers, March 3-5, 2021
- Panel Chair, The Institute: “Roles and Responsibilities of Underwriter’s Counsel” Sponsor: National Association of Bond Lawyers, March 19-20, 2020
- Faculty Member, The Workshop: "Practical Pointers on Disclosure and Compliance Programs and Interfacing with the SEC Staff in the Current Regulatory Environment” Sponsor: National Association of Bond Lawyers, September 11-13, 2019
- Faculty Member, Tax & Securities Law Institute: "SEC Enforcement" Sponsor: National Association of Bond Lawyers, February 22-23, 2018
- Faculty Member, Tax & Securities Law Institute: "Risk Factor and Risk Disclosure in the Municipal Securities Market" Sponsor: National Association of Bond Lawyers, March 9-10, 2017
- Faculty Member, Tax & Securities Law Institute: "Securities and Tax Law Issues in Private Placements and Bank Loan Transactions" Sponsor: National Association of Bond Lawyers, March 5-6, 2015
- Faculty Member, Tax & Securities Law Institute: "Current Disclosure Issues in Primary Offerings" Sponsor: National Association of Bond Lawyers, March 27-28, 2014
- Panel Member: “Changes to the Continuing Disclosure Regime for Municipal Issuers” Sponsor: Connecticut Government Finance Officers Association, April 2, 2009
- Faculty Member, Tax & Securities Law Institute: “Continuing Disclosure Issues” Sponsor: National Association of Bond Lawyers, March 5-6, 2009
- Faculty Member, Tax & Securities Law Institute: “Small Issuer Practice Mini- Summit” Sponsor: National Association of Bond Lawyers, February 21-22, 2008
- Moderator: “New Assistance for Brownfield Remediation” Sponsors: Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C. and Connecticut Development Authority, January 29, 2002
- Faculty Member: “Electronic Issues in the Municipal Bond Context” Sponsor: National Association of Bond Lawyers, May 3-4, 2001
- Panel Member and Moderator: “Issuer Beware: Emerging Issues Concerning Electronic Disclosure of Municipal Financial Information and Other Data” Sponsor: Connecticut Government Finance Officers Association, February 2, 2001
- Moderator: “The Continuing Debate over Dead-Hand Pills” Sponsor: The Council of Institutional Investors
- Faculty Member: Commercial Real Estate Transactions Seminar Sponsor: Connecticut Bar Association