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Financial Advisory Firm With Quarter-Century Experience

Larson Consulting Services, LLC, is an Orlando, Florida-based full-service financial advisory and consulting firm. As a Security and Exchange Commission and Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board regulated, independent municipal advisor, Larson Consulting offers a full menu of integrated financial advisory, project management support, economic development, consulting, capital planning, debt affordability, financial feasibility, project finance, and investment support services.

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Value-Added Client Services

The firm was established to provide a high level of value-added client services. The Larson Consulting team provides expertise in a broad array of specialties, including, but not limited to,

  • Infrastructure and redevelopment finance
  • Debt refunding and restructurings
  • Project financings
  • Public-private partnerships
  • Investment support
  • Healthcare
  • Student housing
  • Higher education
  • Not-for-profit 501(c) 3 projects
  • Economic development
  • State and federal funding assistance
  • Utility acquisitions
  • Statewide commercial PACE project financing
  • Land assemblage
  • Charter school financing
  • Special districts
  • Financial advisory services
  • Capital Planning

Deep Experience, Diverse Clients

Our senior public finance, analytical, valuation, development, and capital markets professionals average over a quarter century of experience and have enjoyed close working relationships with multiple clients including:

  • Counties
  • Cities
  • Charter schools
  • State authorities
  • Conduit bond issuers
  • Special districts
  • Community redevelopment authorities (CRA’s)
  • 501(c)3 not-for-profit institutions
  • Private sector regional and national development companies
  • Regional development consulting firms
  • Utility authorities
  • School districts
  • Private and not-for-profit foundations
  • Airport authorities
  • Health care institutions
  • Universities
  • Colleges
  • Fortune 1000 and middle market corporations

The firm's financial consultants and advisors have expertise in complex project financings, debt defeasance programs, charter school financings, structuring public/private partnership projects, refunding and debt restructurings, bank placements, bond and certificate of participation long-term financings, cash flow analysis, developer financing negotiations, private placements, capital lease financings, investments, conventional fixed-rate and variable-rate debt financings, and synthetic structured finance products such as swaps, forwards, and swaptions.

The Larson Consulting Team’s professionals have successfully helped structure and close a wide range of public, structured finance, and corporate finance transactions. These include:

  • Financing totaling $2.7 billion for a passenger rail project.
  • Stormwater utility financing for a number of clients.
  • A $21,740,000 fire assessment revenue and financing for a local client's three new fire stations.
  • $45 million Solid Waste Recovery Revenue Bond.
  • Multiple charter school financings.
  • $11.7 million Tax Increment Fund Revenue Refunding Bond.
  • A $1,500,000 state RCDL note to help restart a lumber sawmill in Dixie County that has provided to date over 90 jobs.
  • An $8,927,000 Water and Sewer Revenue Refunding Note for the City of Groveland.
  • An $81 million City Utility Acquisition Financing.
  • Five project COP and BAN financing issues for the University of Central Florida, Orlando, totaling approximately $250 million.
  • A $15,335,000 Utility System Revenue Bond (Green Bonds) for the City of Venice.
  • A $900 million Foreign Receivables Securitization Financing for Lockheed Finance.
  • Two general obligation bond issues totaling $34 million for the City of Venice.
  • A $1 billion corporate acquisition financing by Gulfstream Aerospace.
  • A competitively bid medium-term note financing for the City of Orlando.
  • Numerous electric, fiber optic/telecommunications, water, wastewater, and gas utility financings for a number of Florida cities.
  • A credit-enhanced taxable lower floater variable rate bond issue for the Miami Dolphins training facility at Nova/Southeastern.
  • An interest-only revolving credit/term loan facility.
  • A $20 million Grant Anticipation Note Financing (Federal and State Supported).
  • Several multiple CRA/Tax Increment (TIF) financings.
  • A cross-currency interest rate swap for BellSouth.
  • Stormwater assessment bond issues and private placements.
  • Multiple Community Development District (CDD) financings.
  • City Hall financings for the cities of Cape Canaveral, Madeira Beach, and Sebastian.

Larson Consulting also serves as the financial advisor to the Florida Development Financing Corporation (“FDFC”) on a number of state capital financing initiatives with various private sector companies and as financial advisor to the statewide CPACE Financing Program for FDFC.

Various Financial Solutions

The Larson Consulting Team of Professionals provides financing solutions for many types of clients in Florida, the Southeast, and across the country. We specialize in a number of practices in which we have significant experience. Our primary areas of focus include the following:

  • Infrastructure Financings
  • Investment Support Services
  • Special Districts and Land Development
  • Higher Education
  • Utility Undergrounding Programs
  • Stormwater Financings
  • CRA & TIF Improvement Districts
  • Healthcare Finance
  • Bond Anticipation Note (BAN) Financings
  • Charter Schools and EFBD’s
  • Growth Management and Capital Planning
  • Developer Project Negotiations
  • Arbitrage Support
  • Private Placements
  • Banking Services RFP’s
  • Grant Anticipation Note (GAN) Financings
  • Enterprise Unit Feasibility Analysis
  • Refunding and Debt Restructurings
  • PACE Financings (via FDFC)
  • Project Financings
  • Utility Capital Financings
  • Public Private Partnerships (PPP’s)
  • Sports Facility Financings
  • Financial and Project Feasibility Studies
  • Project Consulting and Management Support Services
  • Lease-Purchase Financings
  • Alternative Energy Project Support
  • Utility Acquisition Analysis
  • Land Assemblage and Utilization
  • Conduit Issue Support
  • Financial Plan Modeling
  • State and Federal Grant Support
  • Cash Flow Analysis

Quantitative Financial Feasibility, Valuation and Project Finance Modeling Services

As a key part of our client value added support efforts, the LCS team offers tailored government and institutional clients advisory and consultancy quantitative services. We help issuers negotiate the maze of financial, legal, and regulatory issues posed by today’s market, and advise clients on any type of project or method of sale, negotiated or public. 

Access to all major information services allows us to update clients on market trends and developments, and our analytical services help issuers pinpoint the most opportune time to enter the market. Some of the members of the Quantitative Team at LCS may be contracted professionals that help provide analysis and financial feasibility support services to clients as part of the LCS team.

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Advanced Quantitative & Tailored Services

In addition to our Quantitative Team’s analytical work on traditional new money and refunding issues, our hands-on working knowledge of the bank, credit enhancement and fixed income investor capital markets have enabled our firm to provide specifically designed and tailored quantitative services and modeling for various clients including, but not limited to:

  • PACE Bond issues (commercial issues to multiple CPACE Administrators via FDFC)
  • Village Center/Town Center Project Financing;
  • Land assemblage and mixed use, multi-phased development model for Florida municipalities in its Economic Development/ Redevelopment Areas;
  • Utility Acquisition Valuation Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis;
  • Variable rate versus fixed rate financing options;
  • Analysis of Current Interest Rate Derivative and Structured Finance programs;
  • Financial Feasibility Model for Electric Utility, in conjunction with Federal and State grants;
  • Stormwater Utility Capital Financings;
  • Utility Undergrounding Programs;
  • Project Finance Plan development for sports venue, parking, infrastructure housing and retail projects for major Florida Universities
  • Support on ISDA Swap Terminations
  • Water and Wastewater Modeling incorporating interim financing, State Revolving Fund, Grants Loan options, USDA and long term bond financings
  • Charter School acquisition and expansion feasibility model;
  • Review of General Aviation Airport Business Development Plan and Debt Capacity Analysis;
  • Feasibility of Telecommunications/ Fiber Optic Municipal Utility’s expansion program
  • Water, Wastewater and reclaimed Water Utility Capital expansion programs.
  • Debt Affordability Study—City’s General Fund, Utility Systems