Deal of the Year Event

Roosevelt & Cross president and executive director of public finance Elaine Brennan receives the 2025 Freda Johnson Award for the private sector.

Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority executive director Jeanette W. Weldon receives the 2025 Freda Johnson Award for the public sector.

Relive some of the highlights of the 2025 Deal of the Year awards dinner, which also featured the presentation of the Freda Johnson awards.

Melinda White from Sage Memorial Hospital accepts the 2025 Deal of the Year award.

Aaron Heintz from State of Wisconsin accepts the 2025 Deal of the Year award for Innovative Financing.

Steve Thody from JFK Millennium Partners accepts the 2025 Deal of the Year award for Green Financing.

Amy Dozier from Texas' Kerrville Public Utility Board accepts the 2025 Deal of the Year award for Small Issuer Financing.

Veronica Clark from Sage Memorial Hospital accepts the 2025 Deal of the Year award for Healthcare Financing.

Jonathan Dingle from Meridiam accepts the 2025 Deal of the Year award for P3 Financing.

Rodney Oliver from Virginia Port Authority accepts the 2025 Deal of the Year award for the Southeast Region.

Joe Nardone from Columbus Regional Airport Authority accepts the 2025 Deal of the Year award for the Midwest Region.

Michelle Maddox of Alaska Railroad Corp. accepts the 2025 Deal of the Year award for the Far West Region.

Chris Poinsatte from DFW International Airport accepts the 2025 Deal of the Year award for the Southwest Region.

Adam Barksy from the New York Power Authority accepts the 2025 Deal of the Year award for the Northeast Region.

The transaction, which supports the Navajo community in Ganado, Arizona, represents a major landmark in furthering Native American health care infrastructure, overcoming hurdles tribal governments typically face in issuing municipal debt to open a replicable path to market other indigenous health systems can follow.

Ten winners across five regions and five additional categories will be celebrated Dec. 2 in New York City, where one will be crowned the overall Deal of the Year.

As the largest private-activity bond issuance and first investment-grade debt for American high-speed rail, this transaction, which also won Deal of the Year in the Innovative Financing category, opens new avenues for large-scale infrastructure projects in a traditionally underserved financing sector.

Nominations for the 10 regional and other categorical honors, all of whom will be finalists for the national Deal of the Year award, are due by Friday, October 11.