Quateman LLP hired Scott A. Schwartz as a public finance associate.
Schwartz, a graduate of the University of California Los-Angeles Law School, was formerly with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where he worked on water and wastewater bonds, pooled financings with multiple participants, conduit financings, and tax-exempt financings for religious schools.
Quateman is a 20-year-old women-owned law firm founded by Lisa Quateman. The Los Angeles-based firm serves as both bond counsel and disclosure counsel on municipal bond sales, and it has been the top-ranked women-owned bond counsel firm in California in recent years, according to data from Thomson Reuters.
The firm’s practice also includes real estate and corporate law.