Rising Stars 2023

Steve Scharff has proven himself to be a valuable player on the business side of the muni business by changing the firm's approach to writing official statements.

Chris Wimsatt's work to raise capital for the Sacramento County Department of Airports' massive infrastructure program earned him the nomination.

"What has kept me so interested in this market is the ability to actually learn something new every day, which has been extremely rewarding," said Morgan Fahy.

"I'd always had a public interest leaning, but to bundle finance with public policy and federal tax law into this gumbo of a practice that produces essential public projects is fundamentally attractive to me," said Joshua Bonney.

"Having a chance to talk directly about what we're doing and why we're doing it, it's reinforcing, in a way," said Claude Lockhart Jr.

Taylor Klavan worked on financings for both LaGuardia and the Terminal 6 project at JFK Airport.

"I've been fortunate to have worked with some great people along the way, both on the law firm side and client side," said Stephanie Kim.

Sarah Jansen was introduced to the world of public finance while taking a public financial management class in graduate school at the University of Texas.

"The teams are pretty small, so I got exposure to things very early and that's helped me along the way," Stephanie Lom said.

Anthony Kinsey's talent comes in handy while helping issuers with the ongoing challenge of updating their official statements and investor presentations based on new disclosure requirements.