PROFESSIONAL TEAM

Douglas M. Seaton, Esq.

Douglas A. Seaton

Practice Focus
Public Finance

Education
Hofstra University, J.D., 1995
Tufts University, B.S., 1991

Admissions
District of Columbia, 1999
Florida, 1999
New York, 1998

Joined Firm
2001

MANAGING PARTNER
dseaton@dseatonaa.com

Douglas M. Seaton specializes in public finance and has been the director of D. Seaton and Associates’ public finance practice since 2004, serving as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, bank counsel, issuer’s counsel and underwriters’ counsel.

Mr. Seaton is experienced across a broad spectrum of financings having worked on over $120 billion in transportation, general obligation, water and sewer, industrial development, special assessment, school district, higher education, healthcare, single/multifamily housing, stadium, seaport and airport bond issuances. These financings included tax-exempt and taxable, tax credit, deficit/working capital, fixed and variable rate, advance/current refunding bonds; as well as certificates of participation, commercial paper, liquidity and credit enhancement, derivatives, direct purchase, and future tax secured structures.

Mr. Seaton has served as bond counsel and/or disclosure counsel during the past 20 years to several sophisticated issuers on complex financings including public private partnerships. These issuers include, among others, Broward County Florida, Central Florida Expressway Authority, the City of Jacksonville Florida, the City of Miami Florida, the City of Miami Gardens Florida, the City of Orlando Florida, the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, Empire State Development (NY), the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (FL), the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its affiliates (NY), Miami-Dade County Florida, Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (FL), New York Convention Center Development Corporation, New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation, New York State Housing Finance Agency, New York Transportation Development Corporation, the School Board of Broward County Florida, the School Board of Miami-Dade County Florida, the School Board of Palm Beach County Florida, the State of New York Mortgage Agency, the Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation (NY).

Mr. Seaton received his Bachelor of Science degree from Tufts University in 1991, majoring in Psychology and his Juris Doctor from the Hofstra University School of Law in 1995. Mr. Seaton is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the Florida Bar, the New York Bar, the U.S. Dist. Ct., E. Dist. of New York, and the U.S. Dist. Ct., S. Dist. of New York.

  • Member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers
    • Chair for the Securities Law Deskbook Editorial Board
  • Life Member of Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity, Inc.
  • Member of the Orange Bowl Committee
    • Former Chair Game Officials Committee
  • Trustee for the United Way of Miami-Dade
  • Former Trustee of the Philip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science
  • Former member of the United Way of Miami-Dade, Mayor’s Ball Committee
  • Former member of the Executive Committee of Leadership Miami
  • Sire Archon, Alpha Rho Boulé, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity 2015 and 2016

 


Also see: Tracy Anne Seaton | Jeffrey M. Perlman | Michael McKenzie