Market Intelligence analyst Jeff Lipton finds that low debt burdens, stronger rainy-day funds, improved pension metrics and robust legal safeguards help states remain a core source of stability and diversification for muni portfolios despite slowing growth and fiscal headwinds.
Gilmore & Bell and Nixon Peabody were new entrants in the top 10, bumping Greenberg Traurig and Bracewell to the top 15.
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"There's a tremendous amount of teamwork, both within an organization and then among all of the working group members," Eileen Heitzler said. "And the end result is a project with a public purpose."
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As bond counsel, Walsh has financed health care and affordable care facilities, continuing care retirement communities, charter schools and many other nonprofit organizations.
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The finance team burned the midnight oil to assemble and market one of the most complex deals in the municipal market this year.
With an insolvent Highway Trust Fund, toll revenue and PABs are increasingly important for transportation financing, lobbyists said.
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The finance team burned the midnight oil to assemble and market one of the most complex deals in the municipal market this year.
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The projects funded by the deal align with the city of Alexandria's goal to reduce community-wide greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030.
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The $4.5 billion of New York Transportation Development Corp. bonds sold for the P3 won the Northeast category of The Bond Buyer's 2024 Deal of the Year awards.
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ON-DEMAND VIDEOKC Mathews, executive vice president and chief market strategist at Commerce Trust breaks down the FOMC meeting.
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ON-DEMAND VIDEOPamela Frederick and Adam Barsky will share their views on the importance of the tax-exemption, how it benefits state and local governments, taxpayers, and U.S. retail investors -- and keeps the country competitive on a global scale.
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ON-DEMAND VIDEOGary Hall, President of the Infrastructure & Public Finance Division at Siebert Williams Shank & Co., joins Bond Buyer Executive Editor Lynne Funk to talk about the importance of the muni industry in financing the country's extensive infrastructure needs -- from ports and airports to bridges and energy solutions.
With declining enrollments and mounting closures, attorneys advising colleges, creditors, and municipal stakeholders must navigate restrictive federal rules that limit restructuring paths and complicate debt workouts.
Issuers routinely refund 5% bonds in year 10, and the resulting savings can be significant. It is notable that although refunding is typically associated with declining interest rates, 5% bonds are refunded even if rates rise.
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C. Christopher Trower was the lead attorney before the Supreme Court in a case that upheld states' rights to preferential tax treatment of their own bonds.
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FINRA found that the firm failed to include the non-transaction-based compensation indicator when reporting 12,066 municipal securities transactions.
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"The Nominating Committee's goal is to achieve broad representation of the municipal securities market on the MSRB Board of Directors," the committee's chair said.
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"The county will file an appeal," Suffolk County said in the Dec. 1 EMMA filing.
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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.
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