Professional Biography

Bruce Bonjour Partner

  • Chicago

    D +1.312.324.8650

    F +1.312.324.9650

    Chicago

    110 North Wacker Drive, 34th Floor

    Chicago, IL 60606

    +1.312.324.8650

    BBonjour@perkinscoie.com

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Overview

Experience

News

  • 08.17.2023
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    Perkins Coie is proud to announce that 403 of its attorneys have been recognized by Best Lawyers® 2023. A total of 279 attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and 124 attorneys were selected for inclusion in the 2023 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.
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    Best Lawyers® 2022 Recognizes 367 Perkins Coie Attorneys
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    Perkins Coie is proud to announce that 367 of its attorneys were recognized by the 2022 Best Lawyers®. A total of 278 attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and 89 attorneys were selected for inclusion in the 2022 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.
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    Perkins Coie is proud to announce that 18 of its attorneys from nine metropolitan areas have been named 2022 Lawyers of the Year by Best Lawyers®.
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    Best Lawyers® 2021 Recognizes 358 Perkins Coie Attorneys
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Bar and Court Admissions

  • Illinois

Education

  • The George Washington University Law School, J.D., with honors, 1976
  • State University of New York (SUNY), M.A., 1972
  • Albion College, B.A., cum laude, 1971
Professional Biography

Bruce Bonjour Partner

  • Chicago

    D +1.312.324.8650

    F +1.312.324.9650

    Chicago

    110 North Wacker Drive, 34th Floor

    Chicago, IL 60606

    +1.312.324.8650

    BBonjour@perkinscoie.com

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Overview

Bruce Bonjour is the current chair of the firm’s Public Finance practice and former co-chair of the firm's Financial Transactions & Securitization practice.  For more than 30 years, Bruce has served as bond counsel and represented public and private clients in tax-exempt and taxable municipal finance transactions.  In 2013 Bruce served as sole bond counsel for a Midwest state in a tax-exempt/taxable tobacco asset-backed bond issue that refinanced tobacco bonds previously issued in 2002 in a transaction in which Bruce also served as sole bond counsel.  The purpose of the financing was to capitalize a permanent trust fund that generates annual distributions dedicated to enhances K-12 public education.  Bruce has served as bond counsel for several high-profile projects and programs, such as the multi-billion dollar expansion/renovation of McCormick Place and Navy Pier in Chicago, the tax-exempt financing (and refunding) of the Hyatt Hotel at McCormick Place in 1996, the $300 million tax-exempt financing of the complete renovation of Soldier Field, a $135 million tax increment financing of infrastructure and related costs of an intermodal park in Illinois, approximately $400 million of intermodal bonds under Section 142(m) of the Internal Revenue Code and in excess of $500 million of Clean Water and Drinking Water Bonds to capitalize a statewide revolving fund.  He has also served as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, credit enhancer’s counsel or issuer’s counsel in connection with a wide range of other tax-exempt financings for health, higher education, museum and infrastructure projects.

Professional Recognition

  • Listed in the Law Bulletin Publishing Company's Leading Lawyers Network as Illinois Leading Lawyer
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2013 - Present: Public Finance Law

Professional Leadership

  • National Association Bond Attorneys, 1979 - present

Related Employment

  • Altheimer & Gray, Chicago, IL, Partner, Finance Practice Group Chair
  • County of San Diego, California, Associate Legislative Representative

Experience

News

RELATED INFORMATION

Bar and Court Admissions

  • Illinois

Education

  • The George Washington University Law School, J.D.,

    with honors

    , 1976
  • State University of New York (SUNY), M.A., 1972
  • Albion College, B.A.,

    cum laude

    , 1971