Nathan F. Ware is a partner at BakerHostetler, advising on tax‑advantaged investment structures in major development and project‑finance transactions. Ware represents investors, developers and lenders nationwide in HTC, NMTC, LIHTC and Opportunity Zone financings, alongside PACE, TIF and other state and local incentives. Ware is noted for structuring complex multi‑layered credit transactions across diverse real‑estate and operating‑business projects.
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Nathan Ware is a member of the firm’s Business Group and serves as co-leader of the firm’s Community Development team. He focuses his practice on tax planning and structuring tax-advantaged investments in the context of development and project finance transactions.

He has significant knowledge of many of the federal general business credits (e.g., the investment credit including the rehabilitation credit (HTC), the New markets tax credit (NMTC) and the Low-income housing credit (LIHC)) and analogous state tax credit programs. He also has experience with conservation easements and opportunity zones. Notably, he has experience with various other state and local development tools including Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing, tax-increment financing (TIF) and tax abatements.

Nathan presents and writes regularly on a variety of tax credit issues. He is also a member of the Novogradac New Markets Tax Credit working group, the Historic Tax Credit Coalition and the Novogradac Opportunity Zone working group.

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Key clients

  • Alto Partners US, LLC
  • Blue Point Capital Partners