Announcements

Sarah Riordan, Executive Director and General Counsel of the Indianapolis Local Public Improvement Bond Bank, accepts the DOTY Midwest award for its $625 million issuance of bonds secured by lease rental payments for its Community Justice Campus.

Jacqueline Sargent, General Manager of Austin Energy, accepts the DOTY Southwest award for city of Austin’s $464.5 million offering of taxable revenue bonds to fund its acquisition of a biomass-fired power plant for the city’s electric utility.

Andre Douzdjian, Chief Financial Officer of the San Diego Association of Governments, accepts the DOTY Far West award for its $331 million capital grants receipts revenue bond.

Pamela Frederick, Chief Financial Officer of the Battery Park City Authority, accepts the DOTY Northeast award for its $673 million bond offering for resilience projects in a neighborhood devastated by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

Photos from The Bond Buyer's annual gala honoring exemplary public finance transactions and Trailblazing Women in Public Finance.

Michael Scarchilli, The Bond Buyer’s Editor-in-Chief announces that the $6.5 billion CommonSpirit Health financing, the largest ever by a not-for-profit health system, won The Bond Buyer’s 2019 Deal of The Year award. Dan Morissette, CFO of CommonSpirit Health, accepts the award for the deal which consisted of both a complex debt restructuring and new money reimbursement.

Courtney Shea, winner of the private sector Freda Johnson Award for Trailblazing Women in Public Finance, speaks at The Bond Buyer’s Deal of the Year ceremony Dec. 4.

Ritta McLaughlin, winner of the public sector Freda Johnson Award for Trailblazing Women, speaks at The Bond Buyer’s Deal of the Year ceremony on Dec. 4.

The deal consisted of both a complex restructuring of nearly 50 series of debt and new money reimbursement, and generated the largest order book for a municipal not-for-profit transaction, with $40 billion in orders.

The first recipient of the Innovative award is the Cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas’ nearly $1.2 billion taxable refinancing.