Bond counsel

Virginia Wong, a partner in Nixon Peabody's public finance group, talks with Chip Barnett about effective mentorship and building successful teams. (15 minutes)

Fernandez was a veteran municipal bond attorney who spent nearly 67 years at Hawkins, Delafield & Wood LLP before his retirement in 2017.

With limited support from the federal government, numerous cities would be able to pursue projects that improve their communities without sacrificing their budgets to debt service.

The bond market is not an inherently racist market but, it does not exist in isolation from society at large. As a result, it has acted against the financial interests of municipalities whose residents are predominantly Black. 

The Jacksonville office is the firm's first in Florida and 28th location in the United States.

Neal Pandozzi, a partner at the law firm of Bowditch & Dewey, talks with Chip Barnett about what environmental social and governance really means for public finance, separating politics from policy, polemics from principles. (34 minutes)

It's the firm's third office in Alabama and part of an investment capitalizing on growth of some high-tech industries in the state, the firm's chair Christopher Maddux said.

Benjamin was mayor of Columbia from 2010 to 2021, leading the city through a time of tremendous growth.

The co-founder of the public finance practice at the firm that still bears his name has died at 96. He helped set the firms on its path to success.

The top bond counsel firms combined for a total of $359.123 billion in 7,878 transactions during 2022, down from the $456.136 billion in 11,819 deals in 2021.