Naomi is a member of the Public Finance Department in the Scottsdale office. She lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Naomi serves in multiple capacities in business and public finance transactions, including as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, issuer’s and borrower’s counsel, lender’s counsel and special tax counsel. She focuses her practice on transactions involving Indian tribes, but also represents state governmental entities and issuers, as well as investment banks and conduit borrowers in municipal public finance transactions, particularly project-finance transactions involving conduit and other structures. In both tribal and municipal finance, Naomi is known for her ability to bring complex and difficult transactions to a successful close.

In her tribal practice, Naomi regularly advises tribal governments and their business partners on finance and business issues relating to tribal governmental and commercial projects. She has advised on numerous financing transactions involving Indian tribes, including taxable and tax-exempt loans and securities offerings. Financed projects include tribal infrastructure, casinos, casino expansions, general commercial projects, health clinics, administration facilities, public-safety facilities, conference centers, hotels and other projects. Naomi’s tribal finance experience, as well as her past experience serving as general counsel to tribal governments, provide her with a solid background in legal issues affecting Indian tribes, acute sensitivity to tribal concerns and goals and the specialized knowledge necessary to navigate complex legal and regulatory environments.

Naomi has served on the board of New Mexico Legal Aid, a nonprofit organization dedicated to opening the door to equal access to justice for all disenfranchised and low-income people and communities throughout New Mexico and the New Mexico Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, as well as other local nonprofit organizations.