South Carolina

The office designs and implements a plan that coordinates statewide resilience and disaster recovery efforts.

The agreement to end the lawsuit over the sale of securities for a failed nuclear reactor project still must be approved by the court.

The state will sell $182.2 million of highly rated general obligation bonds in three separate offerings.

The South Carolina Jobs-Economic Development Authority’s RecoverSC program has up to $100 million in total bonding authority.

The lawsuits concern bond disclosure in South Carolina, a Florida toll bridge default, and the federal water rights fight between Florida and Georgia.

SCANA Corp. and South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. will pay a $25 million penalty for making false and misleading statements about the failed reactor project.

South Carolina-owned utility Santee Cooper issued A-rated revenue and refunding bonds that achieved $134 million in net present value savings and drew $3.5 billion in orders from yield-starved investors.

The city of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, will honor its backup pledge to replenish the Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel Corp.’s debt service reserve fund.

South Carolina-owned Santee Cooper must pay $200 million to ratepayers and impose a four-year rate freeze to end a suit over a failed nuclear reactor project.

The South Carolina Legislature put in place strict oversight of the state-owned utility until they decide whether to sell it.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals found the state improperly valued CSX's land.

State lawmakers passed a continuing resolution, and expect to return to Columbia in September to complete work on a budget for fiscal 2021, which begins July 1.

State lawmakers will return to Columbia for a two-day session that will also determine what to do with embattled state-owned utility Santee Cooper.

South Carolina lawmakers set aside money for the state’s pandemic response but it’s also on hold along with the fiscal 2021 budget.

A judge preliminarily approved a deal to end three lawsuits, but the South Carolina-owned utility still faces federal securities fraud litigation.

The agreement would end current and future litigation by class members over the South Carolina utility’s failed nuclear project.

Benjamin, who is mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, will co-chair the law firm's public finance and affordable housing practices.

SCE&G, and former SCANA executives, violated securities laws while overseeing the defunct V.C. Summer project, the SEC said.

Refundings and taxable deals were also up substantially, driving the region to $75 billion of municipal bond volume, up 32.6% from 2018.

A long-awaited report on options for dealing with the state-owned utility is out.