Martina Hinojosa
Office Information
Practice Areas
Martina provides counsel to governmental entities and underwriters in connection with tax-exempt and taxable debt issues. She has represented consortia of local governments before the Colorado Supreme Court and the Colorado Court of Appeals.
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- Associations
- Bar Admissions
- Civic Involvement
- Distinctions
- Education & Honors
- Experience
- In the News
- Papers, Presentations, & Publications
- Recent Blogs
Bar Admissions
- Colorado, 2013
- U.S. District Courts
- Colorado: District of Colorado
Civic Involvement
- Colorado Lawyers Committee Volunteer
- Denver Great Kids Head Start Board Member
- Law School Yes We Can Mentor
Distinctions
- Super Lawyers®
- Colorado Rising Stars, State, Local & Municipal, 2020
- Law Week Colorado, 2016 Up and Coming Lawyer, Law Week Colorado
- Colorado Hispanic Bar Association, 2017 Outstanding New Hispanic Lawyer
Education & Honors
- University of Colorado, J.D., 2013
- Member, National Moot Court Team
- Production Editor, Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law
- Harvard University, M.Ed., Arts in Education and Policy, 2006
- Rice University, B.A., Art History and Anthropology, 2005
Experience
- Serves as bond counsel, special counsel, disclosure counsel, and underwriter’s counsel in connection with a wide range of financings, including general obligation bonds, certificates of participation, sales tax revenue bonds, enterprise revenue bonds, tax increment revenue bonds, lease purchase transactions, and letters of credit.
- Serves as appellate counsel to consortia of local governments on matters impacting public finance policy.
- Served as special counsel to the City and County of Denver in the issuance of the Denver Downtown Development Authority’s $197 million Tax Increment Revenue Loan to refinance debt originally incurred to finance the redevelopment of Denver Union Station. The transaction saved the City approximately $10 million.
- Served as associate general counsel to the Denver Union Station Project Authority in the refinancing of its Department of Transportation Loans, the proceeds of which were used to finance the redevelopment of Denver Union Station.
- Served as bond counsel to the Regional Transportation District in the issuance of its Sales Tax Revenue Bonds in the aggregate principal amount of $119 million. The Bonds refinanced a portion of the RTD FasTracks project and saved the District approximately $18 million.
- Served as special counsel to Mancos Library District in connection with the execution and delivery of a Lease Purchase Agreement to refinance outstanding certificates of participation.
- Provided election advice to Aurora Public Schools in connection with its ballot measure to approve the issuance of debt to finance capital improvements to school facilities. Following a successful election, served as bond counsel to the District in the issuance of its General Obligation Bonds in the aggregate principal amount of $200 million. The proceeds of the Bonds were used to complete the school improvements contemplated in the ballot measure.
- Served as special counsel to several municipalities, including the City of Durango, the City of Burlington, the Town of Crested Butte, and the Town of Nucla in the execution and delivery of each of their respective loans with the Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority.
- Served as counsel to the underwriter of certificates of participation executed and delivered by the Colorado Department of Transportation to finance the costs of acquisition and construction of administrative and maintenance facilities. More...
- Served as special counsel to the Denver Housing Authority with respect to its execution and delivery of an agreement to provide for a line of credit to acquire land for a new housing project.
- Provided election advice to the City and County of Denver in connection with its ballot measure to approve the extension of a tourism tax and the issuance of debt to redevelop the National Western Center and the Colorado Convention Center. Following a successful election, served as bond counsel to the City in the issuance of its Dedicated Tax Revenue Taxable and Tax-Exempt Refunding and Improvement Bonds in the aggregate principal amount of $397 million. The proceeds of the bonds were used to finance the initial phases of the redevelopment of the National Western Center.
In the News
- Colorado Super Lawyers® Recognizes Three Butler Snow Attorneys
- Butler Snow Attorney Martina Hinojosa is Part of Colorado Lawyers Committee ‘Team of the Year’ Nomination
- Butler Snow Ranked as a Top 10 Private Bond Counsel Firm Nationally by Thomson Reuters Top Legal Counsel Review
- Martina Hinojosa Selected 2017 Outstanding New Hispanic Lawyer by the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association
- Butler Snow Ranked as Top 10 Bond Counsel Firm for First Half of 2017
- Martina Hinojosa Named 2016 Up & Coming Lawyer
- Law Week Colorado - Up and Coming Lawyers: Martina Hinojosa
- People On The Move - 1/8/16 - The Denver Post
- Butler Snow Attorney Martina Hinojosa Named to Colorado Lawyers Committee's Young Lawyers Division Board More...
- Town to Save $1.2 Million by Refinancing '07 Water Debt - AmericanTowns.com
- Martina Hinojosa Joins Butler Snow in Denver
Papers, Presentations, & Publications
- Presenter, “Incorporating Your iPad Into Your Legal Practice,” CLE Presentation (June 2014).
- Author, “Challenges for Emerging Art Forms Under the Visual Artists Rights Act,” 11 J. on Telecomm. and High Tech. L. 351, 433 (2013).
- Author, “Community Art in Higher Education,” 8 Teaching Artist Journal 207, 249 (2010).