Mr. Danos is a Partner in Dorsey’s Des Moines office and serves clients across Iowa in the firm’s public finance group. His practice is focused on finance transactions for cities, counties and other local governments. He has facilitated general obligation, utility and enterprise revenue, tax increment revenue, special assessment, local option sales tax, hotel and motel tax and special revenue bond issues for his clients.
Mr. Danos has also structured innovative local government involvement in economic development projects through municipal bond issues, economic development grants and negotiated development agreements employing tax increment financing, tax abatement, creative infrastructure financing and municipal home rule authority.
His practice also includes the structuring of special assessment and utility connection fee districts, urban renewal areas, urban revitalization areas, municipal enterprises and cooperative intergovernmental entities and agreements.
Prior to beginning the practice of law, Mr. Danos worked in higher education administration, including a year as Interim Dean of Students at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.