Nick Ratti is a partner with CohnReznick’s Project Finance and Consulting Practice in Boston, Massachusetts. He has more than 20 years of experience in the tax credit industry. Nick is currently responsible for developing and evaluating tax credit syndication structures, providing tax compliance advice, evaluating tax credit recapture or tax-loss reallocation issues, strategizing post compliance period exits and providing syndication advisory services. Nick has extensive experience structuring a wide range of Low-Income Housing, Historic and New Market tax credit transactions for his developer and investor clients. Nick is experienced with HUD programs including HOPE VI, Choice Neighborhoods, RAD, Mixed Finance and Capital Fund financing, operations and funding of public housing authorities, financing structures and state housing finance agencies requirements such as NYC HPD, NYC HDC and NYSHCR. Nick has worked with developers of public housing developments utilizing multiple subsidies and financing sources in diverse locations such as; Boston, MA (includes RAD conversions); Cambridge, MA (includes RAD conversions); Providence, RI; New Haven, CT; Jackson, TN; Taunton, MA; Hammond, IN; and Washington, DC. He also played a significant role in the New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) Mixed-Finance Modernization Plan (Federalization) of 21 developments and over 20,000 units. Nick was part of a team engaged as financial consultants to NYCHA to provide tax and structuring advice and financial modeling related to the syndication of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and the use of tax- exempt bond financing. More recently, Nick has provided tax and structuring advice and financial modeling services related to the syndication of the Federal and New York State Historic Tax Credit for several NYCHA PACT projects. Additionally, Nick is a frequent speaker at national conferences and seminars including but not limited to; National Housing and Rehabilitation Association, American Bar Association Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development, IPED Annual Historic Tax Credit Summit and the NYSAFAH Conferences.