Deal of the Year 2020

The complex financing was the largest port transaction to come to market in the country since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the high demand for the bonds highlighted investor confidence in the seaport sector.

The California Deputy Treasurer Tim Schaefer accepts on behalf of the California Health Facilities Financing Authority, which was recognized for its $500 million issuance under the “No Place Like Home” program, which will build housing for the homeless.

The Deal of the Year awards, presented Wednesday, recognize innovation in municipal finance and this year's nominees had to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in addition to other challenges.

This was the inaugural issuance under the “No Place Like Home” program, the first large municipal bond program created to invest in homeless housing infrastructure and secured directly by taxes on high-income residents.

For quickly turning a financial crisis into an opportunity and mapping a course for other large airports, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport's $2 billion refunding earns The Bond Buyer's Deal of the Year for the Southwest Region.

The Idawy Solid Waste District is being honored for its four-county, two-state effort to finance a state-of-the-art landfill.

The state's largest authority pulled off a $1.23 billion issuance that included its inaugural green bonds, and it did so during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

The project will construct a new 11-mile east-west freeway south of Lincoln, Nebraska, and it will be financed in a way that doesn’t infringe on state borrowing limits or expose investors to undue credit risk.

California overcame a legal challenge to use bond authority to provide housing for homeless people suffering from mental illness.

The deal helped pave the way for the reopening of the capital markets for not-for-profit health systems amid the then-insurgent COVID-19 pandemic.

The $1,000 denomination Liberty Bond deal aimed to lure socially conscious, retail investors to broaden its investor base.

For taking proactive measures to update city infrastructure during the height of pandemic, Tampa, Florida's $362.8 million water and wastewater systems revenue and refunding revenue bond transaction earned The Bond Buyer's Deal of the Year for the Southeast Region.

The Bond Buyer chose the Ford Foundation’s $1 billion sale of taxable social bonds as the Deal of the Year winner in the Environmental, Social and Governance/Green financing category.

The $5.35 billion transaction being recognized by The Bond Buyer as Midwest Deal of the Year met a series of state goals.

The 10 award winners are finalists for the national Deal of the Year Award, which will be announced at a virtual event on Dec. 16.

Nominations remain live for the 19th Bond Buyer Deal of the Year awards. The application deadline has been extended until October 9.