Dennis practices primarily in the areas of swaps, derivatives and securitizations in transactions with state and local governments and conduit borrowers and securitizations of municipal securities. He represents both dealers and government and corporate end users in swaps and other derivative transactions, including interest rate swaps and caps, total return swaps, liquidity swaps and commodity swaps. He also represents sponsors, sellers, residual investors, credit enhancers and liquidity providers in tender option bond programs and other securitizations of municipal securities and other assets. 

Dennis has represented parties in transactions involving, among other types of securities, bonds with embedded swaps, synthetic refundings involving forward purchase agreements, sales of call rights and options to require an issuer to issue refunding bonds in the future. His experience includes participation in the creation and development of variable rate demand bonds and pooled hospital financings. He also is experienced in questions of municipal bond secondary market disclosure (SEC Rule 15c2 12 in particular).