Edward (“Ted”) Hickey is a Partner in the Tax Credit Transactions Practice Group in Holland & Knight's Boston, Massachusetts, office. His practice focuses on transactional, financial, restructuring, workout, pre-litigation enforcement and regulatory matters involving various tax credit investments, including low-income housing tax credits, historic tax credits and new markets tax credits investments. Mr. Hickey’s expertise spans a variety of complex transaction structures that often include a combination of multiple sources of financing, credit enhancements, syndications, financial guaranties, derivative swaps, dispositions, secondary market portfolio acquisitions, partnership interest transfers and work-outs.
In recent years, Mr. Hickey has represented some of the nation’s best-known tax credit syndicators and direct investors on all aspects of tax credit investment portfolio management with an emphasis on troubled assets. Drawing upon practical experience and expertise, Mr. Hickey has developed creative solutions in response to distressed real estate projects and tax credit investments to achieve successful outcomes under challenging circumstances.
In addition to his emphasis on distressed and troubled assets, Mr. Hickey has represented clients in connection with a wide variety of portfolio asset management issues, dispute resolution, contract interpretation and pre-litigation enforcement, property manager and general partner removals, negotiations with lenders in connection with foreclosure actions, refinancing, and loan workout agreements, and other workout strategies.
Prior to entering the practice of law, Mr. Hickey gained significant experience as a civil/environmental engineer. His engineering project experience has involved both private sector environmental consulting and public sector work with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. Mr. Hickey worked as an environmental engineer for a Rhode Island-based consulting firm from 1992-93 and as an engineer for the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management from 1993-96.