Roderic L. Woodson is a Partner in Washington, D.C., where he engages an administrative, regulatory, and legislative practice with a focus upon D.C. municipal law issues.
Mr. Woodson provides advice and representation to clients with matters pending before the executive departments, the city council, and administrative bodies of the District of Columbia on business and regulatory issues. In this regard, he has also assisted in drafting a number of legislative and regulatory initiatives which have been enacted or adopted by the District of Columbia on a variety of subjects including construction labor, telecommunications, health care, taxation & business regulation, utilities, securities, alcoholic beverage control, and various subjects of administrative regulation. Mr. Woodson acts as sponsor counsel for tax increment financing transactions, as well as borrower counsel for revenue bond conduit financings. He also regularly provides advice and counsel to the building industry and pharmaceutical industries, as well as and related businesses on a variety of local legal, legislative, and policy issues.
A former member of the corporation finance staff of the US Securities & Exchange Commission, Mr. Woodson was the first general counsel of the District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency, where he assisted in establishing the current character of the agency's single family program which implemented the use of collateralized revenue bond financing. Mr. Woodson has been electric utility counsel to the District's consumer advocate, and legal adviser to the District of Columbia Public Service Commission; land use counsel for a regional real estate developer; local counsel for a southern-based real estate company; real property tax assessment litigation counsel; and has appeared before all major regulatory agencies and judicial tribunals of the District of Columbia.