California

Squire Patton Boggs, a leading muni bond firm, is merging with the San Francisco-based international litigation firm of Carroll, Burdick & McDonough.

Standard & Poor’s revised Huntington Park, Calif.’s outlook to stable citing concerns about the city’s operating deficits.

The California Department of Finance said the state government’s revenues for January fell short of projections contained in Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal by $148 million.

The head of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco gave attendees of a Town Hall Los Angeles event a glimpse into what the Fed might announce at its March meeting.

Verity Health System of California agreed to repay its $278.6 million in junk-rated revenue bonds at a higher interest rate in exchange for relaxed debt service coverage requirements.

Bond issuers in California would have to provide significantly more disclosure to a state agency under recently introduced legislation.

Public finance lawyer Robert Haight has joined the San Francisco office of Holland & Knight, the firm announced Tuesday.

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District's decision to abandon the $1.45 billion, 400-megawatt Iowa Hill pumped storage generation project is good for its credit, Moody's Investors Service said Friday.

The education spending proposed in the California governor’s budget is enough to sustain the sector's healthy and improving credit position, Moody's Investors Service said.

Los Angeles may switch gears mid-stream from a traditional tax-exempt financing to consider a public-private model to expand and renovate its convention center.